NC State’s Women Hoops Finishes Eighth in AP Poll

RALEIGH, N.C. – The NC State women’s basketball team (28-4) finished its 2019-20 season ranked eighth in the final Associated Press Top-25 Poll released Tuesday afternoon. It marks the Wolfpack’s best season-ending AP ranking since 1990-91 when the team was tabbed seventh in the nation.

NC State capped off a strong campaign by winning the 2020 ACC Tournament title, it’s fifth in program history and the team’s first since 1991.

The Pack entered the conference tournament as the two seed for its highest postseason position since the 1990 ACC Tournament and defeated Georgia Tech, Boston College and No. 22 Florida State on its way to taking home the team trophy.

The Wolfpack has been ranked in the AP Top 10 every week since Dec. 9, and Tuesday’s poll marks the 165th overall week that the program has appeared in the national top 10. NC State was ranked as high as No. 4 in the nation this season, which was the best national ranking for the program since the 1999-2000 campaign.

Led by head coach Wes Moore, who is a semifinalist for the Werner Ladder Naismith Trophy Women’s Coach of the Year, NC State set a single-season program record for ACC wins with 14. The team’s 28 overall victories tied as the second-most wins ever achieved in 46 years of NC State women’s basketball. The Pack has reached 20+ wins in all but one of seven seasons under the leadership of Moore and has picked up 25+ wins three seasons in a row.

Photos by Lawrence Davis III.