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The Friends of the College Performances

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Side by side photos of the 1983 men's basketball team and the 2024 men's basketball team members celebrating their advance to the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament

Apr 4, 2024

Writing Their Own Story

There are some similarities between what the current NC State men’s team and the 1983 NCAA championship team experienced along their unlikely journeys, but their stories are different. 
A statue of Kay Yow making wolfie sign with her fingers outside of Reynolds Coliseum

Apr 3, 2024

Women’s Basketball Grew Up Here

NC State’s women’s basketball team heads to the Final Four for the second time in program history this weekend, ready to play South Carolina in the national semifinals in Cleveland. 
Students in NC State gear pose with wolfies up — and scoops of Howling Cow ice cream.

Mar 27, 2024

Buzzing About Pack Basketball

For the first time since 1989, both NC State’s basketball teams have advanced to the NCAA Championships Sweet 16. 
The Kivett family on the sidelines at the 2022 ACC tournament

Mar 20, 2024

Ecstatic — Yet Subdued — Family Celebration

The Kivetts of Lewisville, North Carolina, have five NC State degrees and almost 100 years of volunteering at the Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament between them. None of them, however, had ever seen the Wolfpack win an ACC men’s title until Saturday night. 
NC State's men's basketball team earns its ACC Championship trophy on stage after the game

Mar 20, 2024

Spring-Breaking for a Championship

The NC State men’s basketball team won its 11th Atlantic Coast Conference tournament championship in Washington, D.C., by winning a remarkable five games in a row for its first title since 1987. It was music to everyone’s ears. 
Gary Hahn is recognized on the court of PNC Arena after calling his last men's basketball game earlier this week.

Mar 7, 2024

Last Call for the ‘Voice of the Pack’

After 34 years, Gary Hahn is hanging up his play-by-play microphone for NC State’s football and men’s basketball programs. He’s one of just four play-by-play announcers in NC State radio network history. 
Leigh Brady sitting next to yellow blooming flowers on a grassy lawn

Mar 6, 2024

A Historic Promotion

NC State alumna Leigh Brady serves as the first female chief executive officer for the State Employees Credit Union. 
Members of NC State's 1974 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship team standing on the court of PNC Arena to be recognized for their accomplishment.

Feb 29, 2024

Stormin’ Praise for Norman Sloan

Players from NC State’s 1974 NCAA Championship team gathered last weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their accomplishment. Thoughts quickly turned to their coach, Norman Sloan, an NC State graduate who took the men’s basketball program to its greatest heights. 
Brandon Johnson standing on the green of Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Golf Course.

Feb 28, 2024

A Groundbreaking Designer’s NC State Roots

Brandon Johnson has known what he wanted to do for a career since he spent a good part of his seventh-grade English class doodling golf course designs on his blue-lined notebook paper. When he came to NC State in the fall of 1992, he told advisor Art Rice his goal was to create golf courses, which… 

Feb 15, 2024

NC State To Host Screening of ‘36 Seconds: Portrait of a Hate Crime’

The new documentary shares the story and honors the memory of three NC State alumni. 
A group photo of the 1974-75 NC State Women's Basketball Team

Feb 1, 2024

A Unified Pack From the Start

As the women’s basketball team celebrates its 50th season, players and coaches reflect on its history as the first women’s sport sponsored by the athletics department — and the only program to be fully integrated from its inception. 
The fall 2023 cohort of Spring Connect students at the NC State European Center in Prague.

Jan 23, 2024

Spring Connect: Starting Strong in Prague

NC State offers Spring Connect students the chance to begin their college career — and challenge themselves — in Czechia. 
Martin Luther King Jr. in front of a crowd.

Jan 10, 2024

The Day King Addressed Campus — and the Klan Marched on Raleigh

Professor Jason Miller has discovered footage of the Ku Klux Klan marching in downtown Raleigh and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech in Reynolds Coliseum — both of which happened on the same day. 
David Thompson and other attendees watch as a black sheet is removed to reveal a new statue in his likeness next to Reynolds Coliseum.

Dec 7, 2023

New Statue Honors NC State Basketball Great

The newest statue outside of Reynolds Coliseum honors former men's basketball standout and national champion David Thompson. 
Posters from various performances at Reynolds Coliseum over the years

Nov 13, 2023

The Friends of the College Performances

With its subscription-only model, NC State’s Friends of the College concert series created demand for the arts in Raleigh and surrounding communities. Beginning with a budget of less than $10,000 — but with wide support among university and local leadership — the concert series quickly grew into the largest in the country. And here’s why: a…