High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The women's basketball team at NC State had its beginnings in 1974. Under first head coach Robert "Peanut" Doak, NC State won the first game it played 57-45 over the Virginia Cavaliers on December 7, 1974 en route to an 11-4 final record. Kay Yow, the former head coach of the Elon Phoenix, was hired July 1, 1975 as coordinator of women's athletics and women's basketball coach. Coach Yow began her legendary coaching career on December 6, 1975 and recorded her first win with the Wolfpack, a 68-64 triumph over the College of Charleston Cougars, on January 10, 1976. On January 27, 1976, the Wolfpack beat the North Carolina Tar Heels 68-58 in the first televised women's basketball game in North Carolina history. In her first season as the head coach, Kay Yow led her squad to the quarterfinals of the 1976 National Women's Invitation Tournament.