November 29, 2011
NC STATE BASKETBALL
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Hoosiers Visit Pack For The ACC-Big Ten Challenge
NC STATE-INDIANA, THE SERIES: This will be the third meeting ever between the two programs and the first since 1968. The Hoosiers have won the previous two contests with the Wolfpack. Indiana won the first game 101-97 at Reynolds Coliseum on Dec. 17, 1967. It followed that with a 77-62 home win on Dec. 14, 1968.
NC STATE TIES TO INDIANA: NC State and Indiana have met only twice on the hardwoods – with the Hoosiers winning in both 1967-68 and 1968-69 in a brief home-and-home series – but the states of North Carolina and Indiana are inextricably tied to the roots of college basketball. In the earliest days of the sport, North Carolina imported much of its coaching and playing talent from the Hoosier State, where high school basketball first took root soon after it was invented by James Naismith in 1891 in Springfield, Mass.
Dr. Richard “Red†Crozier of Evansville, Ind., introduced college basketball to the state of North Carolina in 1905, soon after he was hired to be Wake Forest’s baseball coach and gymnasium manager. He not only coached in the state’s first college basketball game, against Trinity College, he later coached against NC State in its first two games, in 1911. He also served two stints as NC State’s head coach, during and just after World War I, compiling a 24-35 record in three seasons. He later served as the team’s trainer and doctor under new head coach Gus Tebell.Tebell won Southern Conference football and basketball championships before moving on to Virginia, eventually becoming athletics director and president of the Southern Conference. In 1946, he invited Indiana legend Chuck Taylor to speak during the Southern Conference basketball tournament in Raleigh, and it was at that time that Taylor recommended to NC State athletics officials that the school hire Everett Case to be its next basketball coach. Though he had never coached college basketball, Case was a legend in Indiana, where he was the first coach to win four Indiana High School Championships while coaching at Frankfort, Ind. He is the only coach in the history of the Indiana tournament to accept the championship trophy from Naismith, the game’s inventor.
Case was also a successful coach while serving in the Navy in World War II.
Case, who turned down a job at Purdue to bring big-time college basketball to North Carolina, opened up a pipeline of Indiana high school stars to Raleigh to play at NC State. In fact, his first team was called the “Hoosier Hotshots,†because of the nucleus of six players with Indiana roots that Case either coached or coached against on military teams: Dick Dickey of Alexandria, Pete Negley of Lawrence, Jack McComas of Shelbyville, Charlie Stine of Frankfort, Jack Snow of Anderson and Norman Sloan from Indianapolis.
In subsequent years, Case recruited all-star players like Vic Bubas of Gary, Sammy Ranzino of Frankfort, Vic Molodet and Pete Auksel of East Chicago and others to play for the Wolfpack, which he led to 10 conference titles in his 16 years as head coach. He was posthumously inducted into the into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982.
Sloan, after successful coaching stints at The Citadel, Presbyterian and Florida, returned to NC State as head coach. He scheduled the only home-and-home series with the Hoosiers, losing both in Raleigh at Reynolds Coliseum and in Bloomington, in back-to-back seasons.
ACC BASKETBALL
JP GIGLIO (N&O)
Big Ten takes on ACC
Home, sweet home
With a 5-1 start, and a win over Texas, N.C. State has exceeded new coach Mark Gottfried’s expectations and has one of the best chances for the ACC to pick up a win in the Challenge with a home game against Indiana on Wednesday (7:15 p.m., ESPN2).N.C. State has been hot and cold in the Challenge, and its record is directly related to the site of the games. The Wolfpack is 4-1 at home in the Challenge, 1-5 on the road.
The Hoosiers, who have posted three straight losing seasons under coach Tom Crean, are off to a 6-0 start and beat national runner-up Butler on Sunday.
The ACC won the first 10 Challenges, but the Big Ten has won the past two (by a 6-5 margin both years). Road teams won five of the 11 games last year.
TODAY
Michigan at Virginia, 7 p.m. (ESPN2)
Northwestern at Georgia Tech, 7:15 p.m. (ESPNU)
Illinois at Maryland, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Miami at Purdue, 9 p.m. (ESPN2)
Clemson at Iowa, 9:15 p.m. (ESPNU)
Duke at Ohio State, 9:30 p.m. (ESPN)WEDNESDAY
Penn State at Boston College, 7:15 p.m. (ESPNU)
Indiana at N.C. State, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN2)
Florida State at Michigan State, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Virginia Tech at Minnesota, 9:15 p.m. (ESPN2)
Wake Forest at Nebraska, 9:15 p.m. (ESPNU)
Wisconsin at North Carolina, 9:30 p.m. (ESPN)
JOHN KEKIS – ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boeheim keeps silent
Syracuse men’s basketball coach Jim Boeheim ran a closed practice Monday as sex abuse victims’ advocates questioned whether he should still coach after the firing of longtime assistant Bernie Fine, who has been accused of molestation by three men.
As criticism swirled about Boeheim’s initial support of Fine and his verbal attacks on the accusers, the coach kept a low profile, seeking refuge in his office on the second floor of the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center.
Boeheim, who had been sharply critical of the accusers, has softened his stance 10 days after an impassioned defense of Fine, who spent 35 seasons on the bench next to him and was fired Sunday.
The Rev. Robert Hoatson, president of Road to Recovery, a group that supports victims of sexual abuse, said the dismissal of Bernie Fine was appropriate but didn’t go far enough.
“I think Jim Boeheim should be fired or resign as well,” Hoatson said Monday. “These boys were members of the basketball program. Jim Boeheim’s responsibility is to oversee that program, and the children were not safe on his watch.”
Two former Syracuse ball boys were the first to accuse Fine, who has called the allegations “patently false.” A third man came forward last week, accusing Fine of molesting him nine years ago.
ACC FOOTBALL
Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com)
ACC bowl lineup essentially cut-and-dried
A year ago at this time, the ACC’s bowl order was a matter of great debate, with several schools – especially N.C. State and Maryland– openly politicking for spots in the best postseason games.
That’s not the case this season.
Because of the schools involved and the ACC’s “one-win†rule, which limits teams from jumping past others with better league records, the bowl lineup is essentially cut-and-dried.
The only real suspense is who will end up at the Orange Bowl as the ACC champion. And even that doesn’t figure to be much of a mystery given the way division champions Virginia Tech and Clemson are playing right now.
ACC Media Relations (accsports.com)
Virginia Tech, Clemson Dominate All-ACC Teams
The Atlantic Coast Conference released its All-ACC Football teams Monday, and nine Tigers and eight Hokies made either the first or second teams. Division champions Virginia Tech and Clemson meet Saturday in the Dr Pepper ACC Football Championship game in Charlotte.
Hokies running back David Wilson and Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly were unanimous first-team selections by 45 voting members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. Wilson led the league with an average of nearly 133 yards per game. Kuechly led the nation with 191 total tackles for the Eagles. Quarterback Tajh Boyd and star receiver Sammy Watkins were among the five Clemson players who made the first team.
Andrew Skwara (accsports.com)
ACC Football Power Rankings, Nov. 28
6. N.C. State (7-5, 4-4)
Scoring 42 unanswered points, including 35 in the fourth quarter, to cap off a wild comeback win over Maryland is legendary stuff. But don’t forget the Wolfpack also fell behind by 27 points to the ACC’s worst team. Tom O’Brien’s team never should have been in that position.
Upcoming Game: Awaiting bowl bid
Previous Ranking: No. 6
9. North Carolina (7-5, 3-5)
Whoever coaches the Tar Heels next year will inherit a workhorse ball carrier. Freshman Giovani Bernard turned a career-high 30 carries into 165 yards in a win over Duke. Bernard (1,222 rushing yards) and Dwight Jones (1,119 receiving yards) make the Tar Heels the only ACC team with a 1,000-yard rusher and a 1,000-yard receiver.
Upcoming Game: Awaiting bowl bid
Previous Ranking: No. 9
Jim Young (accsports.com)
Second Thoughts About My 2011 All-ACC Ballot
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Amerson, Graham Named First Team All-ACC
NC State sophomore cornerback David Amerson and senior returner T.J. Graham were both named first-team All-ACC on Monday as announced by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association (ACSMA). Junior linebacker Terrell Manning and senior tight end George Bryan were both named second-team All-ACC.
The Pack also collected three honorable mentions on defense; senior linebacker Audie Cole and junior safeties Brandon Bishop and Earl Wolff were all cited.
News and Observer
Scandals tarnish ACC
It’s been a tumultuous several months for the ACC. Scandals involving league members North Carolina and Miami have tarnished the league’s image, even as it has expanded to 14 schools with the recent additions of Pittsburgh and Syracuse.
With the league’s championship football game coming to Charlotte’s sold-out Bank of America Stadium for a second consecutive year, league commissioner John Swofford spoke with the Charlotte Observer’s David Scott last week about the state of the ACC and several other topics:
Q. Can you talk about the distractions of the recent scandals at Miami and North Carolina?
“It’s been disappointing. It flies in the face of what we are and what this league has stood for. We’ve had problems in the past, but not very many and we want to keep it that way. This league over the years has differentiated itself by balancing the quality of academics and athletics. There have been exceptions, but they’ve been few and far between.
“But we need to understand it’s an enterprise that’s competitive and being played out in public. Human beings are going to make mistakes. But it’s very disappointing to have them, and multiple ones at the same time.”
Q. What issues for the ACC or college athletics in general keep you up at night?
“I worry that we’re losing what I call the ‘collegiate model.’ With television and the dollars that go into major collegiate athletics today, to the public we probably look more and more like pro sports and we’re not. That’s not who we are, even though we might look like them at times.”
MULTIMEDIA/PODCASTS
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Watch The Tom O’Brien TV Show
http://www.gopack.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/112811aad.html
In this week’s episode, Head football coach Tom O’Brien breaks down the Maryland game with host Tony Haynes. Mark Thomas visits with running back James Washington and previews whats ahead for State.
