sidney lowe looking at his guards, thinking what in the he world is going on? there was the stick-back on the offensive rebound. in overtime, named the first three in the right corner. comes back, dribbles right between the florida defenders to get the bucket. >> bob: seven crucial markers for nc state. don't forget. more basketball. two more to come on acc sunday night hoops. xavier and wake forest, they will begin at 5:30. and then duke and clemson at 7:45 eastern. both of those games with great intrigue, particularly the night cap of that doubleheader. duke, looking to be the class of the acc, as we begin conference play. >> larry: interesting conference game tonight there. clemson was picked to finish third in this acc. north carolina and duke tied for the first position. and duke really off to a good start, with their only loss at wisconsin, and a really tough place to play. north carolina, i think, still trying to find out what's going on with their club over there. >> bob: and keep this in mind. the clemson tigers have won their last two against duke. ca

sidney lowe, not very happy with that particular offensive position.the corner and simply threw it out of bounds. wolf pack still man-to-man. >> bob: macklin kicks it out. walker. tried to go back to macklin, they turn it. degand. wood. for three. in and out again. >> larry: he had a couple of those here in the second half. >> bob: nine minutes to play. >> larry: florida has gotten very, very patient here on offense here in this second half. trying to run their half-court game. >> bob: walker. and there is florida's first three-pointer. erving walker, who's hit just 2 of his last 14 from outside the arc. degand, inside to smith. >> larry: degand with a terrific pass. the defense collapsed on degand as he was coming to the basket and left tracy smith wide open. >> bob: 44-42, florida. 18 for tracy smith. florida had a three-point streak in jeopardy. they had not hit a three all day. 592 consecutive games with a made three. dating all the way back to j january of '92. loose ball, and state's got it. degand going in. contact with walker, no whistle. wood

ten up and three down for sidney lowe, one of the great wolf pack players of all time and now in histh season coaching his alma mater. a veteran officiating crew to work this one in raleigh today. gary maxwell is working with tony green and roger ayers. the gators in their blue and orange, and the wolf pack in the home white. tracy smith will jump for the wolf pack. vernon macklin for florida. and our tripleheader of acc sunday night hoops is under way. >> larry: good play by westerner to come up with that ball. keep an eye on walker with the ball. very, very quick. >> bob: nc state starts in the man. walker in the lane, and a whistle. he got hit in the head, as he made his way into the paint. >> larry: bob, you may see this particular setup, the way florida runs it. werner will move out to receive that ball. he is an excellent passer. walker made that curl coming around the elbow. he was wide open, and the defender was trailing him. you don't want to do that against this guy. >> bob: erving is a 78% free throw shooter this season. sophomore from brooklyn, new york, and christ the ki

sidney lowe talking to his team. trying to find the magic that they had early in the first half because they sure lost it in the last five or six minutes as unc greensboro made a great comeback. >> mike g.: and i love the energy that korey van dussen brought out there. i thought that was a big spark for them. defensively their zone was very active. nc state had a lot of problems with it. >> mike h.: we'll remind you for unc greensboro, two key players, mikko koivisto and pete brown are not available tonight. give uncg even more credit for what they've done hanging close here with nc state. spartans with just two wins on this season and nine losses. and, again, this is their fifth acc team that they have played. they'll play six in all. they play maryland on sunday. >> mike g.: what they should have done, they should have started pete brown and have him go across on tracy smith for a couple of possessions and then go back out see if that would have helped. >> mike h.: you're cruel. spartans with the first possession h

when you're down three, who you foul, obviously, right now, sidney lowe says, yeah, let's foul, make them make the free throws. we don't want them to make a three to tie it up. some guys say no. >> bob: it becomes a philosophical debate. >> larry: it does, absolutely. >> bob: some coaches say, go ahead, hit the three. i think i'm going enough to beat you in the next overtime. and now, erving walker with his second attempt. he tries to miss it and banks it in. 60-59. foul. 2.6. and this time, it's degand to the free-throw line. >> larry: i thought he was going to crack the glass with that thing. >> bob: you're asked to do that in the pressure of an overtime, on national television, something that you never practice. >> larry: you never practice to miss a free throw. that is true. absolutely fruit. >> bob: now degand. and with the double bonus, a little of the pressure is off. because you're going to get two free throws. he hits the first one. now that may be a situation, nc state, if they are up three, elects not to breathe on it, because the heave is going to come from probably half