The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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TRACKING THE PACK 20 ■ THE WOLFPACKER BY THE NUMBERS Sponsored by Colony Tire & Service www.colonytire.com 4 Wolfpack football players named to this year's first-team All-ACC squad. Graduate center GRANT GIBSON headlined the NC State quartet. The Char- lotte native received 75 more points than second-team choice Bryan Hudson of Louisville. Also named to the first team were sophomore cornerback Aydan White, graduate guard Chandler Zavala and graduate placekicker Christo- pher Dunn. The teams were chosen by a panel made up of all 14 ACC head coaches and 51 members of the media. 7-1 The NC State men's basketball team's re- cord after defeating William & Mary 85-64 on Nov. 29 prior to its ACC opener against Pitt on Dec. 2. It's the Wolfpack's best start to a season since the 2018-19 team opened the year with a 13-1 record. 14 Consecutive games in which NC State has held its opponent to 30 points or fewer. The Wolfpack is tied with Georgia for the longest cur- rent streak in the nation. The last time NC State gave up more than 30 points was during a visit to Wake Forest in Week 10 of the 2021 season, a game in which the Demon Deacons prevailed 45-42. 479 Career points by graduate placekicker CHRISTOPHER DUNN, the highest total in ACC history. Dunn accounted for 12 points in the Wolfpack's 30-27 double-overtime victory over North Carolina, surpassing former Clemson running back Travis Etienne, who finished his ca- reer with 468 points. Heading into the bowl game, Dunn has missed just one kick all season. He has made 24 of 25 field goal attempts and is perfect on 30 PAT tries. He is one of three finalists for the Lou Groza Award, which goes to the nation's top kicker. 3.61 million Viewers who tuned in Nov. 25 to watch visiting NC State defeat North Carolina 30-27 in double overtime. The Friday af- ternoon broadcast on ABC was the second-most-watched game of the long Thanksgiving weekend involving an ACC team, trailing only Florida-Florida State, which drew 6.71 million viewers on Friday night. The Wolfpack played five nationally televised games during the regular season. The most watched of those games was the team's primetime visit to Clemson on Oct. 1, which aired on ABC and drew 4.98 million viewers. Of the 13 Saturday pri- metime games that ABC aired during the regular season, NC State's game against the Tigers ranked fifth. " I think it's pretty unregulated, and that it has a lot of rules that don't get enforced. If you're at a school like ours where we're going to do things the right way, and you're competing against teams that may not, it's going to be difficult when there's no enforcement out there. So yeah, it's a major concern. Not because we're not going to be in the NIL space. Our boosters are actively trying to help us. The collectives are doing what they're able to do and helping our players. So that part of it is good at NC State. But as you know, there are other conferences where there's a lot more money involved. And is it always being done the right way? I'd probably say no." — Dave Doeren, NC State head football coach, on the changes that new name, image and likeness rules have brought to the game PHOTO BY KEN MARTIN PHOTO BY LARRY BLANKENSHIP