Like old times for Terps, Wolfpack

N.C. State’s Leslie ready to test former teammates with Sweet 16 on the line

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina State earned another game with a former conference rival. The Wolfpack’s Kiara Leslie gets a reunion with her old Maryland teammates.

When fourth-seeded N.C. State (25-8) faces the fifth-seeded Terrapins (26-7) today in the second round of the women’s NCAA Tournament, there certainly won’t be many secrets.

Yet Wolfpack coach Wes Moore tried to defuse the suggestion that Leslie might hold the key to stopping the Terps.

“Heck, she doesn’t remember the stuff we’re running,” Moore quipped Saturday. “So how could she remember what she ran two years ago?”

The winner advances to a Kansas City Regional semifinal next week — where, if the seeds hold, No. 1 seed Mississippi State will await. N.C. State hasn’t made the Sweet 16 since 2007 while Maryland is trying to make it that far for the sixth