Open Post Update – Men win and women’s tank hits empty in 2nd half

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Click the photo for more pictures from NC State's win over Boston College.

Click the photo for more pictures from NC State's win over Boston College.

It’s a busy day for Wolfpack basketball. The women’s team, led by first year coach Kellie Harper, will take on Duke in the ACC Championship from the Greensboro Coliseum at 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast on Fox Sports Net.

The men’s team wraps up its season this afternoon against Boston College at 2 p.m. in the RBC Center. The game is on Raycom. Although Miami’s loss to FSU Saturday putting the Pack firmly into 11th place regardless of what happens today, NC State still has a chance to beat BC and head into the ACC tournament on a positive note.

This is the spot to post your thoughts about both games as they happen. I’ll be at the RBC Center to cover the men’s game so I’ll have Twitter updates and info beginning around 2 p.m. For coverage of the women’s game check out FSN and follow Technician Sports on Twitter. Those guys did a great job with game updates yesterday during the women’s win over Boston College.

Here’s some quick hitters on Wolfpack women’s basketball from GoPack.

• NC State is 5-2 against Duke in the ACC Tournament; Won last meeting 70-65 (3/3/07)
• This is NC State’s 14th appearance in the ACC Tournament finals (4-9 record in title games)
• NC State won titles in 1980, 1985, 1987 and 1991; Lost to Duke in finals in 2001 and 2007
• The Wolfpack is now 39-28 all-time in ACC Tournament; 11-10 record in Greensboro
• No. 6 seed has never won the ACC Tournament; Pack is just second six-seed to make it to title game
• No first-year head coach has ever won the ACC Tournament
• NC State is allowing only 56.7 points per game in the ACC Tournament
• NC State ACC Tournament record set this week: nine 3-pointers against Virginia; 94.4% FTs vs. BC
• Bonae Holston and Nikitta Gartrell are each averaging 15.7 ppg in ACC Tournament
• NC State has won 20 games three of the last four seasons and 22 times overall
• The Wolfpack is 18-5 this year when allowing less than 70 points
• The Wolfpack have knocked off two ranked opponents this week (No. 22 Georgia Tech, No. 24 Virginia)
• RPI rankings according to collegerpi.com – NC State 36, Duke 5 (Thru games of 3/5)
• The Wolfpack’s strength of schedule is ranked 23rd in the country according to collegerpi.com

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49 Responses to Open Post Update – Men win and women’s tank hits empty in 2nd half

  1. Rick 03/07/2010 at 2:42 PM #

    I just hope the girl’s team does not follow the rest of the mess we have gone through.

  2. wolfie91 03/07/2010 at 2:44 PM #

    I think the women lost to unc in 07, not Duke.

  3. Rick 03/07/2010 at 2:48 PM #

    I was comparing Harper’s first year to Sid’s

  4. TheAliasTroll 03/07/2010 at 2:53 PM #

    I’m not watching the mens game at all. I am however watching the women’s game all the way to the end, even though they are down by 14 right now.

    Even with a loss by the women, what a breath of fresh air to see competitive basketball.

  5. Derek Medlin 03/07/2010 at 2:53 PM #

    State and BC combined for 18 first half TOs

  6. Wulfpack 03/07/2010 at 2:54 PM #

    I’m with ya Alias. Watching our men’s team play is like watching paint dry. At least the women are showing some heart.

  7. Derek Medlin 03/07/2010 at 2:55 PM #

    Horner’s head is bleeding after that takedown by Southern.

  8. wolfie91 03/07/2010 at 3:01 PM #

    i was talking about the stats, but i see they are from gopack.com, so they got it wrong. says we beat duke in 3/07 and then says they won the title!

  9. StateFans 03/07/2010 at 3:15 PM #

    It is so simple to watch — when we remotely exert ourselves on defense we make things happen. When we play NC State (non) defense…we let them hang in the game.

    We may not be the most talented team in basketball history, but we can go 10+ deep. I don’t understand how/why we can’t/don’t force the issue with more defensive pressure at every position with the number of players we have that can contribute.

  10. Rick 03/07/2010 at 3:24 PM #

    The few times we have pressed have worked.

  11. GAWolf 03/07/2010 at 3:28 PM #

    I’m no basketball genius but that about sums up my feelings too, SFN.

  12. GAWolf 03/07/2010 at 3:40 PM #

    I sure hope we can win this game for Horner. He’s playing well and deserves it.

  13. wolf2003 03/07/2010 at 3:43 PM #

    I just heard, we have no TO’s in the second half. That has been our killer all year. If we take care of the ball, we could of seen alot more numbers on the left side of the win-loss column.

  14. wolf2003 03/07/2010 at 3:44 PM #

    Horner has played very well today and I agree GAWolf, he does deserve. He has been one of the bright spots of the year. I think his knee limited him during that stretch earlier in the year.

  15. Clarksa 03/07/2010 at 3:50 PM #

    Nice win…would have been nice to have that CJ kid all year long…nice little run to end the season…but you have to wonder if this team could have done a little bit more.

  16. NJpack 03/07/2010 at 3:56 PM #

    Good win today, but I have to say it is frustrating that the coaching staff took the entire regular season to realize that CJ Williams is much more comfortable at small forward than shooting guard. And notice we had Javi float to the SG position at the end of the game to give us scoring but not have the pressure of running the offense on him. I’m beginning to think the coaching staff read my last post…

  17. NJpack 03/07/2010 at 4:02 PM #

    And why did it take us the entire season to play Johnny Thomas for any extended period? Not that he tore it up, but the 6 rebounds were nice.

  18. JT 03/07/2010 at 4:30 PM #

    I’m really glad to see Horner finish up at the RBC so strong. He deserved it, a good player and someone I think of as a real State guy. Great win at home and great win for the seniors. A good run to end the regular season. Hopefully it can be built upon if not in the ACC tourney then into next year. The spark that has flickered off and on this year definitely showed up at the end of this game. It gives me hope.

  19. wolfmanmat 03/07/2010 at 4:40 PM #

    The reason we don’t press is because we lack talent and “productive” depth. IF we run up and down the court all we do is wear out Tracy, get Javi in foul trouble and commit turnovers. Next year, I think the press will work much better because we will have depth behind Tracy in Howell/Cothron/Painter(maybe CJL) and we will have depth at guard with Harrow/Brown/Javi. You can’t press a talented team with a team lacking talent….the only reason it worked vs BC is they are equally untalented. It was nice to see CJW show up though….

  20. Classof89 03/07/2010 at 4:54 PM #

    womens bracketology will be updated Monday morning…even before the tourney, we were “last four in”…so I’m sure the run made us a shoo in…question is whether we can move up to a 6 or even 5 seed. (I’ll frankly be disappointed in an 8 or 9 seed).

  21. PoppaJohn 03/07/2010 at 5:04 PM #

    Congratulation women! Fantastic run, looking forward to post season with a team with real, giant killer potential.

    The guys winning and the boys in baby blue getting their butts handed to them make it an enjoyable weekend.

  22. CylonWolf 03/07/2010 at 6:02 PM #

    ” I’m not sure Raycom has that right since it’s distributed to various local channels, which just happens to be CBS/WRAL in the Triangle.”

    Well its not up to Raycom…Raycom provides a broadcast, but they have no control over when your local affiliate decides to switch to that broadcast. WRAL, however, could easily choose to switch to the Raycom game when it started. Instead, they choose to stick with a game that has much less interest in this area, and THEN go to a 3 minute commercial break. At least when the cable networks have runover, they get you to the second game as quickly as possible.

  23. Stillastatefan 03/07/2010 at 6:43 PM #

    Regarding the men’s team, I was thinking while watching the game how perplexing the team is. The Pack has guys who can play but you never know if they’re going to show up or not. One game Javi looks great, the next one he’s throwing it away time and again. Horner has been playing really good, but earlier in the year I was begging Sid to play Howell more. And today, Howell was making beautiful passes from the high post. Where has that been? And then there’s C.J. Williams. Need I say more? I’m not making excuses for Sid, but I can see why the team is hard to coach. You never know who’s going to play. And that makes it even tougher for the guys to get used to playing together.

    I’ll have to add that I appreciate Horner sticking with the program. I’m glad he did and he deserved the day he had today. (Still wonder why a flagrant foul wasn’t call when the guy knocked the snot out of him.) Also thanks to Degand for his contributions.

  24. MrPlywood 03/07/2010 at 7:18 PM #

    The most perplexing stat of all – 10 turnovers in the first half, 0 in the second.

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