Seems like it wasn’t so long ago that State’s football team punched America’s sweetheart in the mouth in the Gator Bowl (thanks Sean Berton), or that men’s basketball beat UConn at the buzzer to make the Sweet 16 or that Kay Yow led the Wolfpack Women to the Final Four.
But much like Falls Lake, State’s postseason appearances dried up this school year. While 
baseball is still in progress (and should make the NCAA tournament), the other three revenue programs failed to make a bowl game or the NCAA Tournament. That puts State in a category as one of five BCS schools to have that distinction.
Of the 66 BCS schools (including Notre Dame) in 2007-08, eight schools participated in all three of the major post season events:
- • UConn
• West Virginia
• Purdue
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• Texas A&M
• Georgia
• Tennessee
31 schools participated in 2 of the 3 post season events.
22 schools participated in 1 of the 3 post season events.
5 schools missed all 3 post season events:
- • NC State
• Northwestern
• Washington
• Ole Miss
• South Carolina
NC State is also one of six BCS schools that did not go to a bowl and also didn’t make the men’s tourney each of the last two seasons. Interestingly, there was one school in each conference.
- • NC State
• Syracuse
• Northwestern
• Iowa St
• Washington
• Ole Miss
Hopefully sports will imitate life and TOB, Sid and Kay will bring some much needed rain back to their programs.
SFN Notes:
(1) Related recent link regarding ACC & National Championships
(2) It would ‘performance’ like this that paints NC State with total irrelevancy to the rest of the country and generates comments like Rocky Top Talk’s in this entry. You will see that when SFN was being named best ACC Blog on the internet, that one of the reasons we were considered to be so impressive was that we did such a great job covering such a poor performing program.
Competent team? Uh, no, and that’s what makes StateFans Nation’s consistent quality all the more laudable.
