NC State Wolfpack vs Boston College Eagles Match Player Stats On Feb 16, 2020

Jairus Hamilton had two dunks in the final minute and Derryck Thornton finished with 22 points as Boston College recovered after North Carolina State's comeback to secure a 71-68 victory Sunday night in Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Jay Heath added 16 points, Nick Popovic had 14 points and Hamilton posted 11 points for the Eagles (13-13, 7-8 Atlantic Coast Conference). The Eagles improved to 8-2 this season when Heath, a freshman guard, scores 15 or more points.

Boston College has alternated wins and losses across a seven-game stretch.

C.J. Bryce, Jericole Hellems and Devon Daniels all scored 15 points for N.C. State (16-9, 7-7). DJ Funderburk added 10 points. Daniels had 10 rebounds.

NC State had gone 1-for-15 on 3s until Daniels drained a long-range shot to tie the score at 64-64 with less than four minutes to play. The Wolfpack went ahead on Markell Johnson's layup on its next possession.

But Boston College took a 69-66 lead on Hamilton's dunk at the 58-second mark. N.C. State scored on Hellems' basket and then got a defensive stop. But Steffon Mitchell's steal amid a wild scramble led to Hamilton's next dunk with 6.5 seconds left.

Bryce missed a potential tying 3-point shot at the end.

Earlier, Boston College built a 26-14 lead, in part because N.C. State missed 16 of its first 20 shots from the field.

The gap was down to 40-33 at halftime, even with Boston College hitting on 55.6 percent of its shots from the field. The Wolfpack shot 1-for-11 on first-half 3-point launches.

This came after N.C. State's 11 long-range makes Tuesday night at Syracuse that marked the most 3-pointers for the team in a 14-game stretch.

The Wolfpack were trying to win all three games of an ACC road stretch for the first time in about 17 years.

This was N.C. State's last out-of-state game until at least after the ACC Tournament if it advances to a national postseason event.

--Field Level Media