For seven decades, NC State has been a comfortable home for men’s and women’s games in the NCAA basketball championships.
Most recently, the school hosted the 2014 first and second rounds in the men’s NCAA Championship at PNC Arena, the 15th time in school history part of “March Madness” started in Raleigh.
Monday, the NCAA announced that PNC Arena again will host the men’s first and second rounds again in 2016, the fourth time in 13 years that the home of Wolfpack men’s basketball will open its doors for the early rounds of the tournament. Tickets will go on sale through the NC State Athletics Ticket Office sometime in 2015.
The school also hosted the first and second rounds at PNC Arena in 2004, ’08 and ’14. Previously, NC State hosted NCAA early rounds in 1951,’69, ’77 and ’79 at Reynolds Coliseum and hosted regional semifinals and finals 1952, ‘53, ’64, ’66, ’68, ’71, ’74 and ’82.
NC State also hosted and participated in first- and second-round action of the NCAA Women’s Championship in 2007. Reynolds also hosted games in the women’s NCAA Championship 11 times.
Please join me in thanking the Athletic Department staff at NC State for their hard work securing this nationally significant event. Thanks to their efforts, Raleigh and PNC Arena will host the tournament for the fourth time in 13 years (2004, 2008, 2014, and 2016). Before PNC Arena opened, Raleigh had not hosted NCAA tournament games since 1982.
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