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Oakland Golden Grizzlies @ North Carolina State Wolfpack
Present information: Oakland 20-11, North Carolina State 17-14
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The North Carolina State Wolfpack and Oakland Golden Grizzlies meet at 7:10 pm ET on Saturday at PPG Paints Enviornment in an ACC postseason contest. Every of those groups might be preventing to maintain their successful streak alive as North Carolina State is available in at six and Oakland at 5.
North Carolina State earned some postseason bragging rights after a profitable outing on Thursday. They got here out on prime in opposition to the Crimson Raiders by a rating of 80-67. Whereas the oddsmakers have but to name the winner, they’ve pegged the rating at 147 over/beneath.
North Carolina State can attribute a lot of its success to Mohamed Diarra, who dropped a double-double on 17 factors and 12 rebounds, and Ben Middlebrooks, who scored 21 factors with two steals and two blocks. Middlebrooks didn't assist North Carolina State's trigger in any respect in opposition to N. Carolina on Saturday, however the identical can't be stated for this contest.
In the meantime, Oakland and Kentucky couldn't dwell as much as the 160 over/beneath that consultants had predicted. The Golden Grizzlies cruised to an 80-76 victory over the Wildcats on Thursday.
Oakland's win was a real workforce effort, with a number of gamers placing in strong performances. Maybe one of the best amongst them was Jack Gohlke, who scored 32 factors. The workforce additionally received assist courtesy of Trey Townsend, who dropped a double-double on 17 factors and 12 rebounds.
The Wolfpack's win raised their report to 23-14. As for the Golden Grizzlies, they’ve completed extremely effectively not too long ago as they’ve received 9 of their final ten contests, which has supplied a pleasant bump to their 24-11 report this season.
