Khalif Wyatt scored 31 points and led Temple to a 76-72 win over North Carolina State in the NCAA Tournament to end a disappointing season for the Wolfpack, which started the year as the preseason No. 1 team in the ACC.

“The N.C. State guys were talking a bit. Just had to block it out and come through for my teammates.”
– Khalif Wyatt

“We’ve played against really good guards this year. Khalif Wyatt is as good or better than all of them.”
– Wolfpack coach Mark Gottfried

“We just weren’t motivated. There’s nothing else to be said.”
– N.C. State forward C.J. Leslie

“There’s no reason that it’s the NCAA championship and we should come out sluggish.”
– NC State forward Scott Wood

“The whole year became this struggle to reach higher than we were, and we just kept reaching and couldn’t get there, and you just seemed to always be falling short. And today’s disappointing. No question, disappointing. I take full responsibility. You guys can put it all on me. But I also kind of look at the big picture here, and I see the picture of winning 48 games in two years and going back-to-back NCAA Tournaments, getting back in the top 25 here and there. So there are good things happening. But we wanted to play a lot longer than one game in this tournament this year. We wanted to play a lot longer. We didn’t. So that’s disappointing, no question.”
– N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried

“N.C. State found out that it can’t gives teams like Temple comfortable first-half cushions. The Pack also learned that Wyatt is as good as any guard it faced in the season.”
– Keith Pompey, Philadelphia Inquirer

“This is where the season ends for N.C. State, on the corner of disappointment and despair in Dayton.”
– Joe Giglio, The News & Observer