The 1970s

• NC State played its inaugural season as a varsity team in 1974-75 under the leadership of Peanut Doak. The Pack earned the first win in program history on Dec. 7, 1974, beating Viginia 57-45 at home.

• Kay Yow was hired as NC State’s head coach ahead of the 1975-76 season. It marked the start of her 34-year career with the Wolfpack during which she helped the team amass 695 wins, nine ACC titles and 16 NCAA Tournament appearances.

• Before the turn of the decade, NC State had two players – Susan Yow and Genia Beasley – honored as Kodak All-Americans. The Atlantic Coast Conference began sponsoring women’s basketball in 1977-78, and the Wolfpack took home the league’s first-ever regular-season crown following that campaign with an undefeated 9-0 record in conference play.

The 1980s

• NC State brought in the new decade by winning the ACC Tournament for the first time in February of 1980 after also claiming the regular-season title. The Pack beat Maryland 85-75 in the championship game after finishing as runner-up to the Terps the two previous seasons.

• In 1981-82, NC State played in the first-ever NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament. The team started its appearance with a home win over Northwestern on March 13, 1982 before falling to eventual runner-up Cheyney State.

• Across the 1980s, the Wolfpack also won the 1983 ACC regular-season championship with a 12-1 record against league competition, completed its second sweep of the ACC titles in March of 1985 and won the ACC Tournament again in March of 1987.

The 1990s

• March of 1990 saw NC State claim yet another ACC crown with a 12-2 conference record. That season, Andrea Stinson became the Pack’s first ACC Player of the Year after averaging 21.7 points and 6.6 rebounds. Stinson went on to be a back-to-back Kodak All-American in 1990 and 1991, the only player in team history to accomplish that feat.

• NC State won its fourth ACC Tournament in March of 1991, but it wasn’t until later in the decade that the Wolfpack put together what still stands as its most successful postseason run in program history.

• In March of 1998, NC State defeated top-seeded Old Dominion in the Sweet 16 and UConn in the Elite Eight to advance to the program’s first and only NCAA Final Four. Chasity Melvin was honored as the fourth Kodak All-American in program history following her senior season, scoring 37 points in the national semifinal to set a record for the most points in a Final Four game that stood for over 10 years.

• Coach Yow celebrated her 400th and 500th NC State victories in the 1990s, and Summer Erb wrapped up the decade as the 1999 ACC Player of the Year after leading the league in scoring (21.5) and rebounding (9.9) all season.

The 2000s

• To celebrate its storied history, the Wolfpack women’s basketball program went into the new century by retiring the jerseys of seven former players following a Feb. 13, 2000 win over Clemson.

• Tynesha Lewis recorded the only triple-double in program history on Feb. 21, 2001 with 25 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in her Senior Day game against rival UNC, and head coach Kay Yow was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame a year later (Sept. 2002).

• It is the lasting legacy of Coach Yow that truly defines NC State women’s basketball in the 2000s. On Feb. 19, 2006, NC State hosted the first Hoops For Hope game inside Reynolds Coliseum and raised more than $27,000 for the fight against women’s cancers. The following season (2006-07), Yow’s team dug deep and remained resilient while their head coach waged her own battle against cancer. Coach Yow returned from a 16-game leave of absence to lead her squad to a 71-60 win over longtime ACC rival Virginia on Jan. 25, 2007. The team won 10 of its next 11 games and capped off that regular season with an upset over No. 2 UNC on Senior Night. The Reynolds Coliseum floor was named “Kay Yow Court” that night in front of a crowd of nearly 8,000.

The 2010s & 2020s

• Following four seasons with Kellie Harper at the helm of the program, Wes Moore was hired as the fourth head coach in program history on April 5, 2013. His tenure, which has comprised most of the 2010s and the entirety of the 2020s thus far, has brought in over 240 wins, seven NCAA Tournament appearances, four Sweet 16s and four ACC titles.

• The Wolfpack broke back through to the Sweet 16 in March of 2018, defeating Maryland 74-60 at home on March 18, 2018 to advance to the regional round for the first time in 11 years. That started a stretch of four Sweet 16 appearances in a row, with the latest coming in 2022 as NC State beat ACC foe Notre Dame to advance to the Elite Eight for just the second time ever.

• NC State controlled conference play at the start of the 2020s. The Pack lifted the ACC Tournament trophy for the first time in 29 years in 2020, repeated as champion in 2021 with a late game-winner by Raina Perez and completed the three-peat with a win over Miami in the 2022 ACC Tournament. In 2021-22, the Pack swept the ACC regular-season and tournament titles for the first time since 1984-85.

• The Wolfpack heads into season 50 at the start of 2023-24 carrying a 1,018-490 (.675) all-time record.