Reynolds Coliseum

So excited to see what Westmore and the girls do on the court this year.

Reynolds Coliseum is always packed out.

One of the best – entire venues in the sport of college basketball.

So we can't wait to see what they do back at home, get the barn rocking, hopefully racking up a bunch of wins as well.

UNC Volleyball visited a pair of in-state rivals over the weekend, first winning three sets to one versus NC State on Friday.

It was Reynolds Coliseum's first sellout match for a volleyball game, and Carolina won a pair of tight sets before dropping the third and taking full control of the fourth.

Then on Sunday, the Tar Heels were over in Winston-Salem and beat Wake Forest in a five-set thriller.

Similarly, Carolina won the first two, dropped another, and the fourth set went 32-30 in favor of Wake.

It was sold out for the first time in program history.

We have the latest from the big game against the Tar Heels and the energy the fans brought there to the stands at Reynolds Coliseum.

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So good, so good, so good.

Tonight was a big milestone for the NC State volleyball team at its game against the 24th ranked UNC Tar Heels.

It was sold out for the first time in program history.

Unfortunately for the hometown fans back in the stands there at Reynolds Coliseum, the Wolfpack lost tonight's match three sets to one as UNC came out on top.

But that loss does not detract from the enthusiastic support the team had from all its loyal fans there in Raleigh tonight.

Phil Spence has passed away at the age of 72, a prominent member of NC State's 1974 National Championship team.

He was a starter on that squad and had among his brightest moments when he wound up starring in the East Region Finals at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, en route to Greensboro, where NC State ultimately defeated UCLA and Marquette to win its first National Championship in men's basketball.

Tim Peeler is a historian at NC State, and he joins us now.

Phil Spence, reading about him today, this was a Raleigh man through and through, and he not only did big things when he got to NC State but even before then.

And that's a testament to how high David could jump.

A Guinness Book of World Records recorded 44 vertical inches.

And Phil always felt very guilty about that because David did a cartwheel, came down, landed neck first on the wooden floor of one of the Reynolds Coliseum, and there were people in that building that day who were convinced that David was either dead or paralyzed from that fall.

And it was national news that this happened, and Phil always felt guilty about that for no reason whatsoever other than the fact that he happened to be at the center of that play when it happened.