Wolfpack 91 – Holes 83 “Butt Kicking” Headlines

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Joe Giglio (N&O)
Energized N.C. State beats UNC 91-83

Caulton Tudor (N&O)
Brown’s size, experience too much for Paige

Luke DeCock (N&O)
Pack shines best under the spotlight

R. Cory Smith (N&O)
Fans pack PNC Arena for first visit by ‘College GameDay’

Akula Wolf (BackingthePack.com)
NC State Holds Off UNC, 91-83

Akula Wolf (BackingthePack.com)
Rebounding Keys Win For NC State

Tampa-Pack (BackingthePack.com)
The STATE of the Pack

Jeff Goodman (CBSSports.com)
NC State reversing course on rivals with wins over Duke, UNC

Andrew Jones (FoxSportsCarolinas.com)
Wolfpack getting back its culture

AP
No. 18 NC State tops rival North Carolina

Robbi Pickeral (ESPN.com)
NC State tops Heels, goes in ‘right direction’

Robbi Pickeral (ESPN.com)
Rapid Reax: NC State 91, North Carolina 83

Stephen Schramm (FayObserver.com)
Player of the game for N.C. State’s win against North Carolina: Lorenzo Brown

Stephen Schramm (FayObserver.com)
Tar Heels’ strong finish in loss to N.C. State doesn’t erase dreadful first half

Bret Strelow (FayObserver.com)
N.C. State finally feels satisfaction of beating UNC

Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com)
UNC’s Strickland reluctantly acknowledges that State is ‘a good team’

Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com)
Up-and-down Wolfpack finally gets UNC monkey off its back

Jacey Zembal (TheWolfpacker.com)
NC State finally snaps streak in ‘butt-kicking’

Brian Barbour (Tarheelfanblog.com)
NC State 91 UNC 83

Alex Conway (TarheelIllustrated.com)
‘A Butt Kicking’

David Morrison (News-Record.com)
Wolfpack runs Tar Heels ragged

Ed Hardin (News-Record.com)
UNC gets the point in loss to N.C. state

Adam Smith (thetimesnews.com)
Just wiping it all away: Wolfpack picks apart Tar Heels to cease 13-game misery in rivalry

Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com)
Wolfpack relishes long-awaited victory over Heels

GoPack.com
NC State Web Run From the North Carolina Win

PackInsider.com
‘Our Take’: On NC State’s Win Over UNC

WRALSportsfan.com
NC State celebrates, UNC shakes head

WRAL’s team coverage gives the highlights and aftermath from NC State’s 93-81 win over North Carolina Saturday.

WRALSportsfan.com
Gottfried: This is a start

NC State head coach Mark Gottfried said the team’s getting to the place they want to be.

WRALSportsfan.com
Williams: We’ve got to play

North Carolina head coach Roy Williams said he doesn’t care about learning experiences his team has to play.

WRALSportsfan.com
Wood: It’s nice to get the monkey of my back

NC State’s Scott Wood said it was nice to get the monkey off his back after beating North Carolina Saturday.

WRALSportsfan.com
Purvis: It was unreal

NC State’s Rodney Purvis said the win over North Carolina Saturday was unreal.

WRALSportsfan.com
Hairston: State punched us in the mouth

North Carolina’s PJ Hairston said that NC State came out and punched them in the mouth.

WRALSportsfan.com
Strickland: We showed potential

North Carolina’s Dexter Strickland said the team showed potential against NC State.

WRALSportsfan.com
NC State fans celebrate long-awaited win

For Wolfpack fans, Saturday’s victory broke a drought of wins against UNC.

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42 Responses to Wolfpack 91 – Holes 83 “Butt Kicking” Headlines

  1. JohnGalt78 01/27/2013 at 11:03 PM #

    has UVA forfeited the Tuesday game?

  2. WeAreCured 01/27/2013 at 11:38 PM #

    Agreed. The Wahoos are going to give the guys fits in Charlottesville. Their defense has been amazing thus far, with a max of 64 points allowed and holding teams to as low as 36, giving them a defensive efficiency rating of 13th in the nation (State is 151 in comparison). It will be a battle between State’s 10th ranked offensive efficiency rating and the ‘Hoos 13th ranked defensive efficiency rating. This game has the potential to be very ugly, which worries me, as ugly games have been a coin toss for State so far. I’ve got my fingers crossed that Tuesday will be a little better to us this week. We will win.

  3. JeremyH 01/27/2013 at 11:39 PM #

    Good point. Just happened to see Miami for the first time this season in the FSU/Miami game and making remarks.

    : )

  4. Wufpacker 01/28/2013 at 12:02 AM #

    Miami only came up now (for me at least) because they were the Sunday game tonight vs FSU, and dispatched them without hardly breaking a sweat in the second half.

    Not overlooking UVa at all and we’ll have to play well to win in Charlottesville. But since I’m not playing, I don’t have to worry about overlooking them anyway. 😀

  5. PackerInRussia 01/28/2013 at 6:06 AM #

    “By the time it was over…relief greatly outweighed exhiliration.”

    I felt the same way. I went from on top of the world to relief that they held on. Glad they won, but those last 10 minutes were scary. I think they came out so fast and hard they got tired. I remember one play where it looked like Lorenzo was starting to move in slow-motion.
    I remember my senior year of high school running in the state cross country meet. It was my last high school race and my first time at state. I was so hyped for it that I went out running at the same pace I ran the 800m. I was way out in front for a while. Unfortunately I wasn’t so far out in front that I couldn’t be overcome. I was dead with a mile left and barely survived the race. Glad that didn’t happen on Saturday. At least we know how big of a lead you need to avoid a furious comeback.

  6. Wulfpack 01/28/2013 at 6:40 AM #

    I don’t think we will have too much trouble with the Cavs but Miami could be a different story.

  7. BJD95 01/28/2013 at 9:27 AM #

    I think we have a better chance of beating Miami than winning at UVA. If I had to paint a picture of our worst matchup…it’s on the road in Hooville.

    Just MHO.

  8. triadwolf 01/28/2013 at 9:37 AM #

    “I don’t think we will have too much trouble with the Cavs but Miami could be a different story.”

    There is no team that you can confidently say will not give us much trouble going forward. The road will be an adventure for us at any venue, and Clemson is evidence that no game is a gimme at home either. But as Pack fans we don’t know any other way (at least not for quite a while).

  9. PackerInRussia 01/28/2013 at 9:41 AM #

    Was also pleased with the non-rush. I was against it from the beginning and it sounded like there were no plans to, but it would have seemed a little anti-climactic after being up so much and then having to hold on the way they did.

  10. packof81 01/28/2013 at 9:47 AM #

    I too was relieved that out team held on and got the win Saturday. It once again validated the old saying about Carolina. You can’t just beat ’em. You gotta double beat ’em. And we even had fair officiating.

    As for the upcoming games, both UVA and Miami will be tough. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

  11. wufpup76 01/28/2013 at 10:52 AM #

    UVa is another nightmarish match-up for us. We don’t adjust too well to ‘style of play’ problems.

    But it’s time to start winning games like that AND time to start collecting road scalps.

    We need them.

    It’s funny, I have every confidence in playing with and having every chance to beat Duke, Chapel Hole, and Miami b/c of style of play, match-ups etc. … It’s the lower part of the conference that I dread seeing up next.

    It’s like Herb is Agent Smith from the Matrix and has made a copy of himself as coach at FSU, Virginia, Clemson, Maryland etc …

  12. Wufpacker 01/28/2013 at 4:50 PM #

    ^ Maybe we’ll luck out and Gott will turn out to be Neo.

    MR. GOTTFRIED!!

    There’s a joke in there somewhere about the red pill vs. blue pill too.

  13. MrPlywood 01/28/2013 at 6:05 PM #

    Tiger Woods won today by 4, after being up by 8 with 5 to play. He played the last 5 holes 4 over par. It felt like Saturdays game – a W, but anti-climactic while exposing some shortcomings that need work.

    On the bright side, the guys for sure now know that every game is 40 minutes. On the down side, I didn’t want the Heels to take anything positive from that game – now they think that they can score on the Pack if they play their game.

    The biggest positive is to get over the mental hurdle of beating the Holes. Next step, follow up with a road W at VA., and get over THAT hurdle.

  14. mak4dpak 01/28/2013 at 7:24 PM #

    The pattern has to be broken. Big win, then play like crap afterwards. So we got the big win over the holes, now we have to show up and play UVA the same way, minus the last 10 minutes. Win the game, and Miami will certainly have their hand’s full on Saturday. We can beat anyone when we show up, and play. Go Pack!

  15. ADVENTUROO 01/28/2013 at 8:26 PM #

    I’m surprised that no mentioned the throwback coat that Coach Roy was wearing. It was NOT quite in the same vein as Coach Sloan’s but it was getting close. Both me and my DW noticed it and had the same thought.

  16. PackerInRussia 01/28/2013 at 10:13 PM #

    “On the bright side, the guys for sure now know that every game is 40 minutes. On the down side, I didn’t want the Heels to take anything positive from that game – now they think that they can score on the Pack if they play their game.”

    Can they really take that away, though? I think that if they’re honest, they’d have to admit that to repeat the same strategy, they’d first have to let State get worn out by nearly running them out of the building and getting a huge lead. Then, when the D seems pretty tired, they’ll start jacking up tons of 3’s and hope that most of them go in again. Not exactly a blueprint for success.

  17. YogiNC 01/29/2013 at 11:52 AM #

    TV gives all us guys named Ted a bad name, thanks for nuttin’ TV.

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