NC State’s men’s basketball team was left for dead a mere week ago after they stumbled to yet another regular season loss in yet another disappointing year led by, according to many, yet another poor coaching hire by a school with a nearly two-decade history of hiring coaches not capable of leading the Wolfpack into […]
It’s been 84 years…
Perhaps that is a slight exaggeration, but it sure does feel like it. (Hell, it has been 2362 days since the last football post on SFN!) I cannot remember a season with more hype and expectation, and it’s all deserved. Sports Illustrated has the Pack projected as the AP Preseason #11 team in the nation. […]
Sleep Peacefully Tonight
No; it’s not National BBQ Day. It seems to me that too many people have no idea what Memorial Day stands for or why it is important. It’s always been my hope that by sharing details of a specific event that we would all gain a greater appreciation of what Lincoln meant when he […]
Last Look at the Bubble
It’s hard to believe that the regular season is already over. It’s been a great ride so far and I never expected to be able to say that considering where State basketball was just one year ago. So let’s get to it and start with reviewing the last week of the regular season. RPI […]
ACC Strength of Schedule
Ever since the ACC got too large to play a round-robin conference schedule, it was obvious to me that some teams would play a harder conference schedule while others would play easier ones. So I’ve made an effort to analyze the various conference schedules and pick out those teams with easy or hard schedules to […]
One More Week
Corey Alexander does an “OK” job on the ACC broadcasts, but he was really pissing me off with the constant references to State’s 2006 season. I’m sure he was just trying to illustrate what a good job that KK has done in his first year in Raleigh. But a comparison to Herb’s team that pretty […]
ACC Basketball Update (2/19)
Photo by Dennis Nett at Syracuse.com. This past weekend was awfully good for the visitors…and since State was one of the road winners, I’m OK with that. But there’s a lot to cover so let’s get started. RPI TREND GRAPHS I’m staying with the expanded axis on the “IN” graph again this week […]
What the Heck is a Quadrant?
I completely missed the news that came out last July about the changes that were being made in the Selection Process for the NCAAT. When I saw articles and forum comments about the changes, I had to google around and see what I could find. Assuming you were ignoring college sports articles thru the […]
ACC Basketball Update (2-12)
Photo by Amrita Malaur of The Technician Well that was a disappointing week. Not shocking, but still disappointing. The NCAA released their Top 16 on Sunday. I don’t understand why they release this list, but here’s what they’re thinking about the ACC so far: UVA – #1 seed in South Regional Duke – #2 […]
ACC Basketball – One Month Left
Photo from Rob Kinnan, USA TODAY Sports Before we get to our normal tables, graphs, and discussions, we have some background stuff that needs to be covered: RABBIT TRAIL #1 On Saturday, I saw someone say that beating ND by a big margin would help State’s RPI. NO! NO!! NO!!! Obviously it’s been a […]
