The North Carolina State University, Athletics, Men's Basketball Audio/Visual Materials collection contains primarily moving image recordings of North Carolina State University Men's basketball games. Many of these recordings were captured by the Department of Athletics for coaching and review purposes, and are mostly without sound, ...
MoreThe North Carolina State University, Athletics, Men's Basketball Audio/Visual Materials collection contains primarily moving image recordings of North Carolina State University Men's basketball games. Many of these recordings were captured by the Department of Athletics for coaching and review purposes, and are mostly without sound, commentary, or other narration. Also included in this collection are a number of broadcast recordings centering around the NCAA championship titles of 1974 and 1983; as well as miscellaneous footage of individual players and coaches at NC State. Materials range in date from the 1939 to 2011, with a number of films undated. In 1911, North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts played its first official basketball games against Wake Forest, with A&M College's home game played in the Pullen Hall auditorium. The A&M basketball team was known as the "Red Terrors" until 1947 when all the NC State sports teams adopted the name Wolfpack. The Red Terrors played home games in Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium until Thompson Gymnasium was opened in 1925. Thompson Gymnasium (now Thompson Hall) served as the home of the Men's Basketball team until Reynolds Coliseum opened in 1949. In 1930, Morris Johnson became the first NC State basketball player to receive All-American honors. On April 26, 1946, Everett Case was hired as Men's Basketball head coach, with duties beginning on July 1, 1946. Case coached at NC State until 1965, and remains the winningest basketball coach in the school's history. In 1954 the Men's Basketball team wins the Atlantic Coast Conference championship for the inaugural year of competition in the newly-formed conference. Al Heartley became the first African-American to be awarded a basketball scholarship at NC State. He later became the first African-American captain of the team (1970-1971), and the first African-American to win the Alumni Athletics trophy (1971). On March 25, 1974, NC State won its first NCAA championship over Marquette, 76-64. In April 1983, NC State won its second NCAA tournament title led by Coach Jim Valvano. All three seniors from the Championship team were selected in the NBA draft. On November 19, 1999 the Men's Basketball team beat Georgia 67-63 in its first appearance in the RBC Center (now PNC Arena).
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