NC State hosts Indiana in ACC/Big 10 Challenge – and more scheduling

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This tweet from @PackMensBball prompted us to take a moment and share a few other basketball scheduling items that have developed recently.

As we discussed back in May,

In the 2011 ACC/Big Ten Challenge, NC State hosts Indiana on Wednesday, November 30 at 7:15 p.m. on ESPN2 #NCSUWolfpack

Since that news came out, we have learned a few more things about NC State’s 2011-2012 basketball schedule:

* State will battle Final Four contender, Vanderbilt in the Legends Classic on November 19th and then play either Texas or Oregon State at the same event on November 21st.

* The Wolfpack will hop on a plane after the Big 10 Challenge to travel out west to play at Johnny Dawkins’ Stanford Cardinal on December 4th.

* It looks the Wolfpack will also play the Western Carolina Catamounts – led by former Assistant Basketball Coach, Larry Hunter – this year.  WCU has released their schedule and it has appears the Catamounts will visit Raleigh on New Year’s Eve.

In the first game after Christmas, WCU welcomes mountain-rival UNC Asheville to the Ramsey Center on Dec. 28 before spending New Year’s Eve in the state capital against North Carolina State at the RBC Center.

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15 Responses to NC State hosts Indiana in ACC/Big 10 Challenge – and more scheduling

  1. Rochester 08/08/2011 at 4:43 PM #

    They’re playing up here in Rochester, NY, on Dec. 20 against St. Bonaventure. The Bonnies play a game in Rochester usually once every season. I was stunned/thrilled when I opened the paper a few weeks back and saw the Pack was their opponent this year.

  2. Virginia Wolf 08/08/2011 at 5:54 PM #

    I really am pleased to see this kind of scheduling! It’ll be good for the fan base and will guage where we are this year in the program. Keep up the good work!

  3. TruthBKnown Returns 08/08/2011 at 6:02 PM #

    Hopefully football scheduling will pick up soon, too.

  4. PackMan97 08/08/2011 at 6:09 PM #

    Gottfried is certainly looking to push the team prior to ACC play. I like the road games and the level of difficulty.

  5. Virginia Wolf 08/08/2011 at 7:21 PM #

    TruthBKnown, yeah, I’m hoping the FB schedule will improve in the next few years. Don’t think we need to be playing the likes of So. Ala., Liberty, Gardner-Webb, and even ECU. We need to pick up an SEC and Big East team with a Big Ten team occassionally. 2012 we do play Tenn. in Atl. and at UConn. Then there is that So. Ala. team again. I think we may be playing the Citadel too. I like the Tn. and UConn game.

  6. BJD95 08/08/2011 at 8:54 PM #

    Kudos for scheduling some “out of the box thinking” road games. Those will hold the fanbase’s attention.

  7. 61Packer 08/08/2011 at 9:16 PM #

    It’s great to be hearing positive things again about Wolfpack basketball!

    As far as the football schedule goes, I initially didn’t like this season’s cupcake schedule, but it might be the right time to help this team, and Glennon, get off to a good start. But I sure don’t like us playing South Alabama, let alone 3 times. That, along with the December home b-ball OOC schedule, has got to stop. I believe we have an AD who’ll do just that.

  8. cWOhLFrPAiCKs 08/08/2011 at 11:16 PM #

    I think the scheduling has a second effect: Gottfried is trying to show these kids what REAL basketball looks like. He’s going to throw them out there as best prepared as he can, but he knows they’re going to take their knocks and hopefully learn from it. I love it!

    On the FB side, I think you will see the scheduling improve once the consistency is there. If we are winning 8-9 games for 3-4 years, the scheduling will definitely improve (and kind of has to) if we want to take that next step.

  9. newt 08/08/2011 at 11:16 PM #

    I remember when we played on New Year’s Eve in Reynolds and a ticket to First Night Raleigh got you into the game. We walked in and caught some of the game right there at court’s edge in the student section. My UNC alum now wife was pretty blown away by the experience. I can’t remember who we played, but GT sticks in my mind for some reason. That can’t be right though. That would be cool if they did that again for the WCU game.

    The schedule seems nice I guess, but what I really want to see is us on TV before the new year.

  10. 1.21 Jigawatts 08/09/2011 at 7:13 AM #

    The marquee games are great for fans and tv but the real improvement of RPI comes from improving the lesser teams we play. Replace the 250-300+ RPI teams with 150-225 RPI teams.

  11. Bubba 08/09/2011 at 8:52 AM #

    we host UNC-A and are still looking for a matchup in Greensboro for late Dec

  12. 61Packer 08/09/2011 at 1:48 PM #

    If there’s a match made for Greensboro, it should be Duke. We play them only once this season, as is usually the case, and that matchup would put 20,000 fans in the Coliseum. Play the likes of UNCG, Elon or ECU, and you’d be lucky to get 5,000 fans there.

  13. 808WOLF 08/10/2011 at 11:39 AM #

    Vanderbilt a final four contender…? Is that a joke? People see them beat up on the SEC and they get delusional expectations. Was this written by a vandy alum or someone still scarred from our collapse a few years ago? or maybe that was referring to vandy baseball!

  14. nycfan 08/10/2011 at 1:59 PM #

    Can’t wait to see the full ACC schedule (which seems to be released later and later every August, I guess we may be looking at Labor Day now), but it sounds like Gottfried is upgrading the OOC schedule right out of the gate.

    While there is zero chance that either State or Dook would give up a home conference game to play each other in Greensboro, that would be pretty sweet. Remember when WFU used to play “home” games in Greensboro? Which is my segue to my annual Quixotic dream to bring back the Big Four Tournament … play it in Greensboro one year, Charlotte the next. Set the match-ups so that teams playing each other once in conference play are certain to play each other in the first game … that would be fun. And I do understand it will never happen.

  15. JEOH2 08/10/2011 at 2:10 PM #

    I am not very passionate about our football scheduling… unless we are lucky enough to one day being a contender for at-large BCS bids…

    Yes, I want be see/attend better games but, I am more concerned about competing in the ACC…

    So until CFB uses RPI to determine bowl bids, I just don’t really care as much…

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