North Carolina St. Really Works Overtime to Defeat Wake Forest

Rodney Monroe scored 26 points, including shots that put North Carolina State into two of the four overtime periods, as the 20th-ranked Wolfpack outlasted Wake Forest, 110-103, Saturday in the longest Atlantic Coast Conference game in history.

North Carolina State, 20-7 overall, 10-4 in the ACC, is assured of at least a tie for the regular-season championship. Wake Forest is 13-14 and 3-11.

Monroe grabbed the rebound of a deliberately missed free throw by Kelsey Weems with two seconds left in regulation and made a basket to make it 77-77. Wolfpack guard Chris Corchiani drove the lane in the final seconds of the first overtime to tie score, 84-84.

Cal Boyd and Derrick McQueen each hit three-point shots for Wake Forest in the next overtime, but Monroe scored with 45 seconds left in the period to make it 92-92.

The third overtime ended after N.C. State’s Brian Howard tipped in a missed shot at the 1:02 mark to make it 96-96. The Wolfpack overpowered a tiring Wake Forest team in the final period as Monroe made the first basket and the final two free throws. The game lasted 2 hours 39 minutes.