‘Wolfpack child!’: NC State’s upset win stirs up social media
The No. 11 seed NC State Wolfpack surprised the college basketball world Sunday when they distress the No. 4 seed Duke Blue Devils in an Elite Eight matchup.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated Senior forward
DJ Burns Jr. scored a season-high 29 points to assist send out the Wolfpack to the Final 4 for the very first time because their 1983 national title victory.Burns trolled the Blue Devils after the game
with a post on his Instagram story– using a clip of him finding guard DJ Horne for a clutch 3-pointer late in the game along with a clip from one of Blue Devils guard Jared McCain’s TikToks.Even Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic chimed in on the upset, offering full marks
to Burns.”I believe he’s so competent, particularly lefty, “Jokic stated throughout his postgame news conference.”Looks like colleagues like to play with him. That ‘d be a good guy. “Responses from the sports world The Wolfpack received numerous shoutouts followingtheir 76-64 triumph, consisting of from
Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young and Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton.I DONT CARE ANYMORE DJ BURNS JR YOU ARE GREAT– Theo pinson( @tpinsonn) March 31, 2024 DJ Burns’s floater works– Trae Young(@TheTraeYoung)March 31, 2024 Burns a problem!!
— Tyrese Haliburton(@TyHaliburton22)March 31, 2024 Wolfpack weigh in
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson
and Cleveland Browns running back Nyheim Hines, who bet NC State in 2007-10 and 2015-17, respectively, revealed their Wolfpack pride.Additionally, NC
State’s ladies’s team provided the males’s team a shoutout while getting ready for its own Final Four
match in
Cleveland.WOLFPACK CHILD! #FinalFour– Russell Wilson(@DangeRussWilson) March 31, 2024 WOLF! PACK! Proud of the males’s and ladies’s basketball team! Couldn’t be any better as a fan– Nyheim Hines(@TheNyNy7)March 31, 2024 Celebrating our guys from halfway throughout the nation. Love y’ all @PackMensBball pic.twitter.com/SC9Ica2M8T!.?.!— NC State WBB(@PackWomensBball)April 1, 2024