The State of State 2.0 – Men’s Basketball

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With the season officially getting underway this week, I thought I would share some historical stats on our men’s basketball program. Similar entires for football, women’s basketball and championships can be found here and here and here.

Men’s Basketball

I. Records
ACC Record: 397-401 (.497)
ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 331-323 (.506)
ACC Record Under Fowler: 66-78 (.458)

State’s all-time ACC winning percentage has dropped 0.9% since Lee Fowler has been AD. Our ACC winning percentage in the 9 years under Fowler is 4.8% worse than the preceeding 47 seasons but is not statistically significant (Z test with a p-value of 0.3436, p-value less than 0.05 would be significant).

ACC Record 1954-1990: 282-214 (.569)
ACC Record post-Valvano: 115-187 (.381)

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Note: Red points are ACC championship seasons

II. Championships
ACC Titles: 10 (1954-1956, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1983, 1987)
ACC Titles Under Fowler: 0
National Championships: 2 (1974, 1983)

All-Time ACC Titles
t1. Duke – 17
t1. North Carolina – 17
3. NC State – 10
4. Wake Forest – 4
t5. Georgia Tech – 3
t5. Maryland – 3
t7. South Carolina – 1
t7. Virginia – 1

All-Time National Championships
1. North Carolina – 5
2. Duke – 3
3. NC State – 2
4. Maryland – 1

Current ACC Champ: Duke
Current National Champ: North Carolina

III. Lee Fowler’s Tenure (2000-2001 to 2008-2009)

ACC Records by Team
1. Duke: 107-37 (.743)
2. North Carolina: 95-49 (.660)
3. Maryland: 83-61 (.576)
4. Wake Forest: 78-66 (.542)
5. Boston College: 34-30 (.531)
6. Virginia Tech: 38-42 (.475)
7. NC State: 66-78 (.458)
8. Georgia Tech: 60-84 (.417)
9. Miami: 33-47 (.413)
10. Virginia: 59-85 (.410)
11. Florida St: 55-89 (.382)
12. Clemson: 52-92 (.361)
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ACC Titles
1. Duke – 6
2. North Carolina – 2
3. Maryland – 1

NCAA Tournaments
1. Duke – 9
t2. Boston College – 7
t2. North Carolina – 7
t4. Maryland – 6
t4. Wake Forest – 6
6. NC State – 5
7. Georgia Tech – 4
t8. Clemson – 2
t8. Miami – 2
t8. Virginia – 2
t11. Florida St – 1
t11. Virginia Tech – 1

Head To Head Records (ACC Regular Season only)
t1. Florida St: 10-4 (.714)
t1. Virginia Tech: 5-2 (.714)
3. Georgia Tech: 10-6 (.625)
4. Virginia: 9-6 (.600)
t5. Clemson: 8-6 (.571)
t5. Miami: 4-3 (.571)
7. Wake Forest: 7-11 (.389)
8. Boston College: 2-4 (.333)
9. North Carolina: 5-13 (.278)
10. Maryland: 4-11 (.267)
11. Duke: 2-12 (.143)
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Head To Head Records (All Games)
t1. Florida St: 12-4 (.750)
t1. Virginia Tech: 6-2 (.750)
t3. Georgia Tech: 11-6 (.647)
t3. Virginia: 11-6 (.647)
5. Clemson: 8-6 (.571)
6. Miami: 4-4 (.500)
7. Wake Forest: 9-12 (.429)
8. Maryland: 5-13 (.278)
9. North Carolina: 5-14 (.263)
10. Boston College: 2-6 (.250)
11. Duke: 3-16 (.158)
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ACC Finish by Year
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As usual, comments, observations and questions are welcome.

About WV Wolf

Graduated from NCSU in 1996 with a degree in statistics. Born and inbred in West "By God" Virginia and now live in Raleigh where I spend my time watching the Wolfpack, the Mountaineers and the Carolina Hurricanes as well as making bar graphs for SFN. I'm @wvncsu on the Twitter machine.

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28 Responses to The State of State 2.0 – Men’s Basketball

  1. bradleyb123 11/11/2009 at 5:12 PM #

    I have a question. This is kind of a conspiracy theory I have, but I don’t know how things work “at the top”, so to speak.

    What is the pecking order of who controls what at NC State? I mean the VERY top, down. Board of trustees, the chancellor, big money donors, athletics director, the head of the UNC system, etc.

    The reason I ask is that I’ve always wondered if there was someone at the very top that has a particular “leaning” to one of the state schools (and it’s NOT NC State!) And makes it difficult for NC State to hire good ADs and good coaches. In other words, is it even remotely possible that someone somewhere is “keeping us down”?

    It’s just that we’ve been so down for so long that I have to wonder, is it by design? I mean, if we were legitimately trying, one would think SOMETHING good would have happened for us over the years besides multiple fishing trophies. Like the old saying goes, even a blind pig can hit the broad side of a barn once in a while.

    I can’t help but wonder if someone in the NC system thinks that NORTH CAROLINA (as in the STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA) benefits more (financially, etc.) by the state system having a perpetual “top dog”, and is striving to keep the current top dog (again, which is definitely NOT NC State)… on top.

    Not knowing how everything is structured only fuels my theory. 95% of me thinks it’s not true. But the rest thinks it could happen. How else could we be this continually bad if all the key players involved were really trying?

    I’ve wondered about this since Todd Turner was hired as our AD, and we stayed with Les Robinson a long time. And then we stayed with Herb Sendek ENTIRELY too long. And we had some athletics success under Mary Anne Fox, but then she “up and left”. And do I even need to mention Lee Fowler? It just seems odd that we couldn’t have done a LITTLE better at some point than we have. A little TOO odd.

  2. Wulfpack 11/11/2009 at 9:06 PM #

    Lee Fowler hasn’t done anything but “lead” NCSU to the barrell of athletic programs. The stats back this up. I don’t know how anyone could possibly sing his praises with a straight face. Simply put, there is not a whole lot of good to say about him. And he had ZERO to do with hiring TOB.

  3. JPPack 11/16/2009 at 1:30 PM #

    Wulfpack,
    I must disagree. Examining the data clearly shows we were at the bottom of the barrel (at least in the lower third) before Fowler started. He has certainly not helped us climb out of that level, however.

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