CLEMSON, S.C. – Clemson guard Andre Young was not sure if he had ever been carried off the court before. Then again, Young hasn’t had too many moments like this.

Young hit the game-tying and go-ahead 3-pointers in the final two minutes of Clemson’s 72-69 overtime victory against N.C. State on Saturday.

The Tigers fell behind in the extra period, 69-66, before Young – the team’s top 3-point shooter who was 0-for-5 from behind the arc before he knocked down his two big shots. His first was a straightaway shot that tied the game at 69-all with 1:13 to play. The other took place from the left corner with the shot clock running down and 11.5 seconds remaining in the game.

Young also grabbed the rebound after C.J. Leslie was off the mark on the Wolfpack’s final attempt to tie. Soon after, Young was picked up by freshman forward Bernard Sullivan as the cheers went up in Littlejohn Coliseum.

“I told him not to do it,” Young, the 5-foot-9 senior, said of Sullivan. “But those freshmen, they don’t listen.”

Young did not hesitate despite his cold-shooting performance up until then, a confidence he said has been gained from handling critical moments throughout his career.

“As one of the leaders of the team, I wanted to take that shot,” Young said. “Tanner found me and I knocked it down.”

C.J. Leslie was off the mark on a 3-point try on N.C. State’s attempt to force a second overtime on the final possession.

Lorenzo Brown and Leslie had 18 points each to lead the Wolfpack (18-11, 7-7), which lost its fourth straight.

It looked like Brown would be the star of the overtime as he had three close-in baskets to build a 69-66 lead with 2:24 to play.

The Wolfpack had a chance to extend its lead, but C.J. Williams missed an open three before Young’s first long-range basket.

Brown had the chance to put N.C. State in front with 43.7 seconds to go, yet the 76-percent foul shooter missed two free throws that opened the door for Young’s dramatic basket.

“The missed free throws that we had didn’t cost us the game,” said N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried. “There were just too many plays in a 45 minute basketball game to point to one or two.”

N.C. State finished 5-for-13 from the foul line, including 1-for-4 in overtime.

Both teams had chances to win before overtime. Leslie, who scored nine of his team’s final 13 points of regulation, hit two foul shots put the Wolfpack ahead 62-60 before Tanner Smith tied it with two free throws of his own with 4.1 seconds to play.

Milton Jennings led the Tigers with 17 points before fouling out in overtime.

Williams had 16 points for N.C. State.

The Wolfpack didn’t play poorly. It shot nearly 54 percent for the period (14-for-26) as a team while Williams and Brown kept N.C. State in it, making a combined eight of 14 shots for 18 points and eight rebounds. The Wolfpack finished 30-for-60 from the field.

N.C. State came in off a three-game losing streak, its longest of coach Mike Gottfried’s first season. However, the losses came to the ACC’s top three teams in Duke, North Carolina and Florida State.

The Wolfpack looked poised to come out on top of a hard-fought game against the Tigers.

Instead, they lost to Clemson for the seventh time in the last nine meetings.

Gottfried tried to boost his team’s confidence entering the final week of the regular season. “I told them to keep their head up,” he said. “I said if you give us that kind of effort every night then eventually things will turn good for us.”

Clemson celebrated its 100 years of basketball at halftime with several of the program’s greatest players back to take the court to the cheers of those at Littlejohn. Those returning included former NBA standout Elden Campbell, the Tigers all-time scoring leader, and current Washington Wizards starter Trevor Booker.

Also in the crowd was Clemson’s Joe Ayoob, who played from 1964-67 and hit the winning basket in the Tigers last OT win at Littlejohn over North Carolina State, a 76-74 win on Feb. 19, 1966.

Tigers coach Brad Brownell thinks his team is finally developing the way he’d hoped it would at the season’s start. Clemson is split between six freshmen and six upperclassmen. Brownell said it was the leadership of players like Young and Smith that have kept his younger players working hard every time out.

“I really like the way we’ve been able to hang in there,” Brownell said.