N.C. State's defensive scouting report for Davidson is pretty basic: know where Stephen Curry is at all times and never leave him.
Curry is the nation's ninth-leading scorer, averaging 24.1 points for the Wildcats, who face the Pack at the RBC Center on Friday night. The 6-3 sophomore is shooting 41.9 percent on 3's (39 of 93) and is second nationally in 3-pointers per game at 4.3.
"We're just going to try to play strong, tough man-to-man defense," NCSU coach Sidney Lowe said today. "He's one of those players — we've gone over this for four days now — that you don't leave him. You just don't leave him. He's a guy if you're two feet away, you're too far. It's too late.
"Don't give him the opportunities, really, is what we're going to try to do. Doing that is a tough job. We're going to need more than one guy to defend him because he's constantly moving and they're setting screens for him and he does a nice job of reading the screens and he has a little step-back move when he catches the ball to clear some space. All he needs is a look."
Lowe said Courtney Fells would start on Curry but that Farnold Degand, Javi Gonzalez and Gavin Grant all would probably get their turns — every four minutes, a new guy, a new look.
