No. 21 Wolfpack Trips Terrapins In ACC Quarterfinals
March 3, 2001
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By DAVID DROSCHAK
AP Sports Writer
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Tynesha Lewis and Carisse Moody keyed a second half run as No. 21 North Carolina State broke open a close game to beat Maryland 74-61 Saturday night to advance in the ACC women's tournament.
The third-seeded Wolfpack (19-9) won its first Atlantic Coast Conference postseason game since 1996 and will play No. 25 Clemson in one semifinal matchup Sunday. The second-seeded Tigers advanced by beating North Carolina 75-57.
Moody finished with 22 points, including 10 straight after the Terrapins closed within 58-51 with 4:04 left. Lewis added 14.
Sixth-seeded Maryland (17-11) swept the Wolfpack during the regular season, including a 21-point win six days ago. But the ACC's top defense limited the Terrapins to 33 percent shooting this time.
N.C. State was up 26-25 with 18:09 left before Lewis sank a pair of 3-pointers 53 seconds apart and Moody made a shot in the lane to key a 12-0 run.
Once up by 13, Moody made a layup, a three-point play and sank two more free throws in a span of two minutes as N.C. State went up 46-30.
To make matters worse for the Terrapins, top scorer Deedee Warley, who finished with 26 points, picked up her fourth foul in the middle of Moody's scoring spree and went to the bench.
Maryland rallied late, but the Wolfpack made 12 straight free throws down the stretch as it continued the best single-season turnaround in ACC history. N.C. State was 2-6 in league play in the first half, and finished 7-1 down the stretch.
The team also improved to 8-1 since Lewis was switched to point guard.
Warley had 12 of Maryland's 21 first-half points, but the rest of the team was a combined 4-for-19 as neither team led by more than four points in the opening 20 minutes.
