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Former Wolfpack basketball player Nate McMillan served as assistant men's basketball coach under Mike Krzyzewski in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
Lead by Head Coach Jim Valvano, the men's basketball team won the 1983 NCAA championship.
Harry Hartsell was hired as General Manager of Athletics and oversaw coaching of the basketball, football, track, and baseball teams.
The men's basketball team won the ACC championship for the inaugural year of competition in the newly-formed conference.
The Case Athletics Center opened and was named after Everett N. Case, men's basketball coach from 1946 to 1965.
For the first time since 1986, the men's basketball team advanced to the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA tournament.
Sidney Lowe served as the first African American head coach of the men's basketball team from 2006 to 2011. Lowe was the starting point guard for NC State's 1983 basketball team which won the national championship.
Wilbert Johnson, the first African American assistant coach for men's basketball at NC State, was hired by head coach Norm Sloan.
Before defeating Marquette for NC State's first NCAA men's basketball championship, State beat UCLA and sparked a huge riot on Hillsborough Street.
Everett Case served as men's basketball head coach with duties beginning on July 1st, 1946. Case coached at NC State until 1965 and was the highest game-winning basketball coach in the school's history. Case was named ACC's "Coach of the Year" in 1954, 1955 and 1958.
Known as "Jimmy V," Jim Valvano was the men's basketball coach from 1980 to 1990. His record at NC State was 209-114 and included the 1983 NCAA championship and 2 ACC titles. The Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research was founded in his honor after Valvano passed on April 28, 1993. In 2012, he was inducted into the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame.
The NC State men's basketball team beat UNC to win the ACC championship, 80-56. The victory marked Coach Everett Case's eleventh championship win in his thirteen years of coaching.
The team defeated UNC-Chapel Hill, 39-29, to capture the undisputed state championship for the second straight season.
NC State defeated Marquette, 76-64, in the finals of the NCAA Basketball tournament in Greensboro, NC, to win the 1974 National Championship. Junior forward David Thompson was named Tournament MVP. The Wolfpack also received key contributions from Tom Burleson, Monte Towe, Tim Stoddard, and Mo Rivers during the championship run.
Les Robinson was hired as men's basketball head coach. Robinson played at NC State for head coach Everett Case in the early 1960s.
Norman Sloan was hired as the new head basketball coach at NC State in 1966. Sloan, who was a player on Everett Case's first basketball team at State (1946-1947), went on to become the second highest game-wining coach in NC State men's basketball history behind Case. His record included the 1974 NCAA championship. He was inducted into the NC State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013.
The men's basketball team participated in an exhibition game, led by coach Norman Sloan, during a trip to the Philippines. NC State played against teams from Asian countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.
During Tebell's career, the basketball team was the first in school history to win 20 games, and the 1929 team brought home NC State’s only conference title in the first 35 years of the program.