NC State was wounded. The Wolfpack found the perfect salve in rolling past injury-hit rival UNC

N.C. State struggled through a humbling week that started with a 41-point beating at Louisville and ended with a final-minute collapse in a stunning home loss to Miami. The Wolfpack team that rolled past No. 16 North Carolina 82-58 on Tuesday night looked nothing short of defiant, both in restoring order to a suddenly teetering season and sticking it to an injury-hit rival. It came in a perfect setting: in front of a feisty and boisterous home crowd, roaring in delight throughout the lone guaranteed meeting this season between the neighboring programs in the Atlantic Coast Conference's new 18-game scheduling model.

By AARON BEARD