Butler Bulldogs vs NC State Wolfpack Box Score on Nov 25, 2022

Jarkel Joiner scored 15 points, D.J. Burns Jr. had 14 and the North Carolina State Wolfpack beat the Butler Bulldogs 76-61 in the fifth-place game of the Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament in Paradise Island, Bahamas, on Friday night.

Dusan Mahorcic had 13 points and Terquavion Smith and Jack Clark scored 10 apiece for the Wolfpack (6-1).

Chuck Harris scored 20 points, Jayden Taylor added 18 points and Eric Hunter Jr. finished with 12 for Butler (4-3).

The Bulldogs led 12-7 after Taylor drained a 3-pointer early in the first half, but NC State tied it minutes later.

With the game tied at 20, Burns scored the next five points on a pair of layups and a free throw, and Casey Morsell made a bucket before a timeout.

NC State continued to pad its lead out of the break on layups by Breon Pass, Mahorcic and Clark to make it 33-20.

Butler got its first points in more than six minutes on a layup by Harris, and the Wolfpack went into halftime leading 35-22.

Mahorcic made the first two baskets of the second half to give NC State a 17-point lead, but the Bulldogs responded with two layups by Taylor and a 3-pointer from Harris to get within 42-31 with 15:36 left.

Joiner made a jumper, Morsell and Simas Lukosius traded 3-pointers and Joiner made another basket before and the Wolfpack eventually built their lead to 20 with 10:57 remaining.

Butler started to chip away at the deficit. Hunter hit a pair of 3-pointers, Taylor converted a three-point play and nailed a 3-pointer, and Harris made a jumper to cap a 14-4 run that made it 64-54 with 5:55 left.

Neither team scored for nearly two minutes before Clark drained a corner 3-pointer that ended a Butler field goal drought that lasted 6:19.

The Bulldogs' Manny Bates hit a layup that made it 67-56, but NC State put it away with two free throws by Joiner and a 3-pointer from Smith.

--Field Level Media