NCAA Tourney Thread

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Here are your matchups. Unlike in year’s past, I don’t think the committee gave Duke and UNC laughably easy draws to the Final Four. The weakest bracket is the West, where UConn and Memphis should dominate.

I don’t like Arizona as an at-large pick, but am really happy that Penn State didn’t make it (pitiful OOC schedule). Nobody who got left out had a great resume, so not too big a deal. Other than that, I don’t see many bad picks or seedings. Although I certainly don’t understand giving BC and Clemson the same seed.

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1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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62 Responses to NCAA Tourney Thread

  1. Ed89 03/15/2009 at 9:51 PM #

    Can someone explain to me why the best PG (Wall) in America, who goes to a small private school, has one of the top PF in America (Leslie) on his team, and they went 15-12 this year? I’m serious. In the big scheme of things, losing Wall and Leslie will NOT be the demise of this program. Sid is working to build a program, not a quick fix. And, I’m serious, why was WOG so “average” if they have two players that good, as well as a few other good players. Maybe I just don’t know HS basketball, but the record isn’t impressive.

  2. wolfpackattack89 03/15/2009 at 9:53 PM #

    great point Ed89
    they probably play great competition, but with players supposedly of that caliber they should of have a WAY better record than that

  3. gcpack 03/15/2009 at 10:06 PM #

    There are a couple of coaches in the area whose third years were disappointing and whose fans wanted them fired. Ultimately they turned out to be successful. Now I’m not suggesting that Sid is nescessarily the calibre of Dean and K but I think we all should take a deep breath and reserve judgement until we see how the program performs next season. That is the key season for Lowe and only until then should we really consider replacing him if we don’t finish in the top half of the conference.

    BJD – No, this is not a “public forum” – it’s a privately run blog. And no, I haven’t been quarantining your comments. Probably stuck in the filter for some reason.

  4. wayofthemaster 03/15/2009 at 10:31 PM #

    ^^^^^

    “I’ll go on record, and say I think we’ll be an NCAA team next year. I think we’ll finish around 4th-6th in the ACC with some good wins. Look at who we lose, and look at what the rest of the teams in the ACC lose. Look at the players we have coming in, and look at who some others have coming in (I know UNC has the #1 class)…Ours is a good class. the 3 we know about and 2 to be announced within a month or so. I figured I would provide some optimism in this blog. BUT, I really believe what I wrote in my first line. We’ll see.”

    The only way, I repeat, the only way this team even gets a sniff of the NCAA tourney is if Brandon Costner returns for his senior season. I know he stank it up in the final six games, but if he moves on, the three big men, and I use that term loosely, on the roster will be Smith, Horner and Howell.

    Ugh!

    That would spell the third straight season without even an NIT bid. Lowe will be gone if that happens, and rightfully so.

  5. JeremyH 03/15/2009 at 10:34 PM #

    and in the meantime the coach you chased off has his new team in the NCAA tournement as a 6th seed… now don’t you feel stupid

  6. gcpack 03/15/2009 at 11:12 PM #

    Hey jeremy,

    If “the coach” had simply changed his offense from the Princeton style he
    would not have felt any heat. I have followed the Pac 10 on Sunday nights
    to check out 4 ASU games. The commentators pointed out in one of ASU’s games against USC that HS used that offense in his first season at ASU and they had a losing season but
    last year he scrapped the Princeton and they had their first winning season in a long time.

    My guess is HS finally figured it out and realized that the problem was the offense NOT where he coached. That’s all he had to do here was change the offense, but he was stubborn.

    And by the way how many people did you include in “you” when writing “you chased him off.”

    Don’t lump everyone into one category.

  7. wufpup76 03/15/2009 at 11:33 PM #

    ^I believe Jeremy was being sarcastic.

  8. blackdom 03/15/2009 at 11:40 PM #

    Get real “look at who we have coming back next year”.Compared to what other team do? Ncca??????? 4th to 6th in acc? More like way of the disaster. Look at who is coming back from other schools as well as frosh classes add they all have a decent coach and if anything we will be worse next year! But lets give Sid 3 more years we have no are a joke.

  9. JeremyH 03/16/2009 at 1:22 AM #

    That’s right.. I’m just raging against the machine through humor. The bottom line is we replaced an experienced coach that we thought had a limited ceiling with a completely inexperienced coach that we are analyzing to bits and from the tone of this blog the last couple days, are concluding has an even lower one. I’m not ready to conclude this yet; another year of experience and with his own recruits starring, let’s see what happens. But this finishing at the bottom of the ACC standings business is just not going to fly for that much longer.

    What I think should desist is this berating of Costner (I admit I’ve done it) and Lowe, and attacking their character. Someone above them both created this situation, not them. Costner committed to a system offense that left three seasons ago, and Sid is trying to come up to speed as quickly as he can.

    Heart is one thing, but trying to beat ACC talent with several slow, non-dribbling, non-posting 6-9 players in a non-Princeton style is asking for trouble. Sure size is important, but in today’s game athleticism reins supreme.

  10. Ed89 03/16/2009 at 6:54 AM #

    ^^^^I know he stank it up in the final six games, but if he moves on, the three big men, and I use that term loosely, on the roster will be Smith, Horner and Howell.

    We WILL be bringing in one more “big”. I think it’s time we move on from Costner. Nothing personal, but I think the “team” will be better off in the long run if he moves on. I wish him well, though.

    Blackdom, I have a real hard time deciphering your posts, other than Sid bashing. Try using some correct grammar and punctuation, as it couldn’t hurt.

  11. blackdom 03/16/2009 at 7:22 AM #

    ^Ed69^ BS you just listen to yourself and your fellow Sid ass kissers. It has nothing to do with bashing it is the truth. A head coach is judged on what?

  12. redfred2 03/16/2009 at 9:22 PM #

    Uh Jeremy, Herb had ten years, he got stuck in a rut, and unfortunately FOR HIM, he was at NC State University when he did. He was at a place that is perfectly fine with the middle of the road. “IF”, Herb had been jolted out of his stupor, and someone would have just said, “Hey Coach, you’ve tried that long enough, it’s not achieving the desired results that we (we, as in the NC State AD’s office) had both hoped it would by this point, so how about let’s try something different.” then Herb may have well still been around.

    But, and as we all know, when you’re in comfort zone, and getting paid well on top of that, with no one is pushing you to do more, then you naturally just kind of worry more perpetuation more than anything. Beyond that, you do it while all of the time thinking that you’re doing exactly what’s, or even MORE THAN, what’s expected of you.

    I’m pretty certain that Herb felt that he was doing MUCH MORE THAN what was expected of him when he left, and I believe he thinks that NC State did do him wrong in the end. Even if he does think that way, it’s nothing to really hold against Herb, because it was/is/always will be, NC State who sets THEIR OWNSELVES up for that kind of backlash, time after time after time, by not having enough spine to just be forthright.

    Herb did get the benefit of a great platform to learn on, he tried it elsewhere, it did NOT work (FOR HIM) there either, so he FINALLY wised up and FINALLY has done what all of us “haters” were begging him to do while he was here.

    Good for him, and good for ASU.

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