Saturday’s Stat of the Day

General NCS Football Stat of the Day56

A team ranked either #1 or #2 in the BCS standings has lost their final game 11 different times in the past 10 years!

UPDATE: The trend continues today as #1 Alabama lost 31-20 to #4 Florida.

Let’s use this entry as Saturday’s open entry to discuss the Wolfpack’s game with Davidson as well as all of the college football action.  Also, don’t forget that we have new chat room open that is accessible from the link in the banner above.

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General NCS Football Stat of the Day

56 Responses to Saturday’s Stat of the Day

  1. ShootingGuard 12/06/2008 at 2:34 PM #

    “Two seniors and a red-shirt junior make up your starting front court. Ferguson’s a junior or senior by now. Inexperience isn’t the problem.”

    You’re right—inexperience in the FRONTCOURT isn’t the problem. The problem is lack of TALENT and EXPERIENCE in the BACKCOURT.

    It doesn’t matter what year Fergy is, he is not an ACC talent.

    The only somewhat experienced and athletic defenders State had today, Fells and Degand, were both injured and on the bench.

    That leaves two freshmen (Mays & Williams), an insurance pick-up soph (Gonzalez), and a walk-on (Harris) to even attempt to cover the most prolific scorer in the NCAA’s—a guy who ran out of gas and still almost beat national champ Kansas last year.

    Good luck with that match-up. As bad as I cursed at losing this game, I am not sure why anyone is surprised at a loss. Davidson brought a gunslinger in Curry, and State had to counter with homemade knives from their MASH unit.

    Until State has a backcourt led by someone on par with say Chris Paul or Jeff Teague, State will struggle just like Wake did in the years between Paul and Teague.

    It doesn’t matter how highly ranked big Eric Williams, etc. were, you don’t lead from the frontcourt.

  2. highstick 12/06/2008 at 3:50 PM #

    Curry is a ball hog, but he’s been trained well and has a lot of skills. Sad that the refs are too stupid to see his little “trick illegal gimmicks” though. “Head butting” isn’t legal, is it? “Hooking”, isn’t either the last time I looked.

    But, Davidson goes nowhere this year. Don’t know what they lost, but the rest of their team just takes up space for Curry. Just sad we couln’t have taken advantage of it today!

  3. wufpup76 12/06/2008 at 3:56 PM #

    ^He got away w/ a LOT of hooking today … They lost their point guard Richards and they are definitely not as good as last season – at least right now

    They did lose to us last year, after all – but then didn’t lose again until Kansas

  4. MattN 12/06/2008 at 7:36 PM #

    For the record, the score was 31-20 per ESPN and YahooSports.

    Alpha: Thanks, Matt — I fixed it. I would like to blame the mistake on a typo, but the truth is that I had a few ‘colebeers’ after playing (and winning) a golf tournament this afternoon. Must have muddied my thinking.

  5. Alpha Wolf 12/06/2008 at 10:24 PM #

    inexperience in the FRONTCOURT isn’t the problem. The problem is lack of TALENT and EXPERIENCE in the BACKCOURT.

    Agreed 100%. And don’t forget that college hoops — and especially Sidney Lowe’s offensive scheme — is a guard’s game. Get quality players in the backcourt and NC State becomes pretty tough to beat.

    Courtney Fells wasn’t even assigned Curry and I guess felt he didn’t need to show up today … pretty poor overall effort …

    All that talent and nothing to guide it. That’s the Courtney Fells story. Put Atsur’s brain in that guy and he’s a lottery pick.

  6. MattN 12/07/2008 at 8:53 AM #

    No problem Alpha. I know how you guys like accuracy. When I saw the score here, I wondered if ESPN had another brain-fart like they did in our ONU game.

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