Clemson to Play Host to NC State Sunday at Littlejohn

GAME SETUPSite: Littlejohn Coliseum (10,000)Date: Sunday, February 10, 2013City: Clemson, SCTime: 1:07 PMRadio: Clemson Tiger Sports Network (Pete Yanity – play-by-play; Philip Sikes – color)TV: ACC Network (Steve Martin – play-by-play; Mike Gminski – color)

SERIES NOTESOverall: NC State leads 98-48at Clemson: NC State leads 31-30at Littlejohn: Clemson leads 23-17at NC State: NC State leads 47-13at Neutral: NC State leads 20-5First Meeting: NC State won, 22-15, in 1923-24Last Meeting: NC State won, 66-62, on Jan. 20Streak: NC State won the last meeting

QUICK FACTS

• Clemson and NC State will meet for the second time this season, and for the 147th time in series history. NC State holds the all-time advantage, 98-48, and won earlier this season in Raleigh, 66-62, on Jan. 20.
• Clemson is coming off a pair of road losses to Boston College and Virginia, but has won four straight at Littlejohn Coliseum over ACC foes entering Sunday’s game.
• NC State has lost three straight, the last two without injured starting point guard Lorenzo Brown against the ACC’s top two teams, Miami and Duke.
• The Wolfpack won the first meeting between the two teams on Jan. 20, a 66-62 final margin after Clemson had tied it late on two occasions.
• Clemson has won four straight at home over NC State, including last year in overtime. The last Wolfpack win at Littlejohn was in 2005-06, when Herb Sendek’s team prevailed 94-85 in double overtime.
• Devin Booker had a career-high 27 points in the first meeting with NC State. He made a career-best 13 field goals on 18 attempts, and played all but one minute at PNC Arena.
• Sunday’s game will feature two of the ACC’s top rebounders. In fact, NC State’s Richard Howell (3.9) and Clemson’s Booker (3.2) rank one and two in the conference in terms of offensive rebounds per game. Howell is one of two players in the ACC averaging a double-double.
• Booker is now 15th in Clemson history with 672 career rebounds, and needs just eight to move into 14th place.
• Rod Hall had his top game of the season at NC State on Jan. 20. He scored 16 points and was 7-for-13 from the field, scoring 12 of his 16 after halftime.
• K.J. McDaniels was Clemson’s only double figure scorer in Thursday’s lopsided defeat at Virginia. The sophomore posted 10 points, the 13th time in 22 games he has recorded double figures in the scoring column. That figure is second on the team behind only Booker.
• Bernard Sullivan has scored in four straight appearances, shooting 6-of-9 from the field during that stretch.
• Jordan Roper has been Clemson’s top freshman scorer each of the last two games, posting 11 at Boston College before tallying eight last time out at Virginia.