N.C. State @ Virginia, 7pm

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N.C. State Wolfpack (11-4, 2-0) @ Virginia Cavaliers (13-0, 1-0) – 7pm @ John Paul Jones Arena | TV: Espn2

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The Wolfpack head to Charlottesville tonight, looking to improve to 3-0 in ACC play while facing a highly ranked foe. N.C. State got a nice bounce back victory over Pitt their last time out, capitalizing on an active and stingy defensive effort to pull away from the Panthers in the 2nd half. The Pack will need more of the same tonight in their first ACC road contest as they take on the AP #3 ranked Virginia Cavaliers.

Virginia enters tonight’s contest with a chance to improve to 14-0 for the first time since Ralph Sampson’s 1980-’81 UVa squad started out 23-0. This season’s edition of the Cavaliers has thus far built on the successes that last season’s squad were able to accomplish. The 2013-’14 season was a banner season for UVa – they captured both the ACC regular season and tournament titles, made the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, and head coach Tony Bennett garnered the ACC Coach of the Year selection.

The Cavaliers have shown no signs of taking any steps backwards this season, as they’re currently rated third in the RPI and their 13-0 mark includes wins over Maryland, VCU, and a ridiculous 49 point thrashing of Harvard that saw the Crimson score a total of 27 points. Virginia’s toughest contests have come in their last two games – versus Davidson and a two overtime contest at Miami. Both the Wildcats and the Hurricanes used efficient, high movement and ball screen (pick and roll) offenses to push UVa.

The hallmark of Tony Bennett’s Virginia teams is the ‘pack line defense‘. The Wolfpack will need some crisp and efficient offensive execution tonight, as well as solid rebounding and a continuation of the defensive effort seen on Saturday to try and steal a victory.

The pack line defense in action. Travelling, duh.

The pack line defense in action. Travelling … duh.

Other links of interest: Viewer’s guide w/ Pack-Hoos snippet| ACC Conference reset

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  • 01/07/2015 at 8:43 PM #68486
    Wufpacker
    Participant

    I always have to laugh re: the Mike Glennon looking kid on the Subway commercial.

    01/07/2015 at 8:43 PM #68487
    MrPlywood
    Participant

    This one got away quickly. Poor shots, odd moving screen calls (UVA #10 could easily be called for similar), and youth/lack of playing time (not knowing where the other guy is going to be) all conspired…

    01/07/2015 at 8:44 PM #68488
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    Bennett is a masterful defensive coach and he’s showing you why this half. We can’t do anything offensively. And his kids do everything pretty well. Team basketball. We played a good 30 minutes or so but they locked us down when they had to.

    01/07/2015 at 8:44 PM #68489
    BassPacker
    Participant

    Two 6 plus minutes of not scoring because one player tried to take over the game and force shots. Not looking forward to Sunday.

    01/07/2015 at 8:45 PM #68490
    eas
    Participant

    Bennett is one heck of a coach. Wow has he turned that program around.

    01/07/2015 at 8:46 PM #68491
    wufpup76
    Keymaster

    Twin to twin assist

    01/07/2015 at 8:46 PM #68492
    WolfWiz11
    Participant

    Free throw shooting. Lacey playing unnecessary hero ball. Defensive rebounding.

    Moral victory?

    01/07/2015 at 8:47 PM #68493
    eas
    Participant

    Cat sighting! He scored.

    01/07/2015 at 8:48 PM #68494
    Wufpacker
    Participant
    WolfWiz11 wrote:

    Moral victory?

    I’d vote no.

    01/07/2015 at 8:48 PM #68495
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    Bennett is one heck of a coach. Wow has he turned that program around.

    He is on his way to being the next rockstar. They don’t look like they are good, but at the end of the day, you look at the scoreboard. The man is one heck of a coach, and he’s still got a bunch of years left.

    01/07/2015 at 8:49 PM #68496
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    And this is no slight on Gott, as he’s done good for us, but this was a no contest the second half.

    01/07/2015 at 8:51 PM #68497
    Wufpacker
    Participant
    Wulfpack wrote:

    They don’t look like they are good, but at the end of the day, you look at the scoreboard. The man is one heck of a coach, and he’s still got a bunch of years left.

    Bennett is what HWSNBN strives (but fails) to be.

    01/07/2015 at 8:52 PM #68498
    WolfWiz11
    Participant

    Questions I have:
    1. When will Gott talk to Lacey about not playing hero ball?
    2. When will our PGs learn to trust the bigs enough to throw it to em off the pick and roll?
    3. When will our bigs learn to actually finish from 4 feet?

    01/07/2015 at 8:54 PM #68499
    ILPackfan
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    The Charlottesville curse continues. It’s not as flashy as the Durham or Chapel Hill curses, but it’s just as for real (now 3-19 at UVA since 1990).

    01/07/2015 at 8:55 PM #68500
    MrPlywood
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    WolfWiz11 wrote:

    2. When will our PGs learn to trust the bigs enough to throw it to em off the pick and roll?
    3. When will our bigs learn to actually finish from 4 feet?

    This “a” and “b”.

    01/07/2015 at 8:55 PM #68502
    choppack1
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    I thought we played pretty good d tonight. But I never thought uva would kill us on offensive boards but then again we pretty much have a sign that says “we don’t box out or do end help d well.”

    Still – I think its encouraging that our d played well enough for us to get the “w”. It was horrendous shot selection that killed us….its low IQ basketball and it is always manifesting itself in one lopsided stat or another.

    However, that was not an nit team or attitude I saw wearing the “s” tonight so that’s a good sign.

    01/07/2015 at 8:57 PM #68504
    spintk
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    Is it time to start questioning Mark’s coaching? We were hanging in there with better than average shooting, but when it came down to it, we couldn’t play smart enough, eg the really bad shooting decisions, to pull it out. Not only that, we didn’t really stop the bleeding–which I attribute to coaching–until Mark decided to call a timeout with 1 minute left to go and down 10 points. I just think the guy is in over his head here. Not to mention he doesn’t even recruit that well.

    01/07/2015 at 8:58 PM #68505
    Adventuroo
    Participant

    Final question for GOTT
    4. When will you learn that Light Blue is NOT a Game Day Shirt Color choice…

    Seriously,

    We looked great for most of the game….but we got outplayed at the end. Maybe outcoached.

    Several of the folks around us in the PNC were expecting a 20 point blow out or Butt Kicking…

    I was very proud of our effort tonight….up till about 5 to go…..then we looked like the team that I feared would show up…

    Lacey may have taken over….but Cat was NOT EVEN IN THE STATE of VIRGINIA for most of the game.

    Turner and Washington carried us and they need credit for that. The Martin twins also had great games….oh YES….they are FROSH…

    01/07/2015 at 8:59 PM #68506
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    UVa forced us into a number of those bad shots. They wear on you and sometimes you take the easy way out. They just never give you the easy look.

    We played well, but not well enough to beat a very good basketball team. I suspect the same Saturday.

    You know a Big 10 power is going to come calling Bennett soon. Will he listen?

    01/07/2015 at 9:01 PM #68507
    1.21 Jigawatts
    Keymaster

    Unofficial stats…subject to change

    1st Half Stats:

    Good offense, Poor defense but decent defensive rebounding. Reduced second chance points, down by 1.

    2nd Half Stats:

    Poof offense, decent defense but bad defensive rebounding. No second chances for the Pack but plenty for UVA, lost the half by 9.

    Final Stats:

    Defensive rebounding is very important for this team. That and free throws the big difference in this game even with the tough offensive shooting second half.

    01/07/2015 at 9:03 PM #68508
    charger17
    Participant

    I don’t blame Lacey at all. If he doesn’t try to take over, it looks worse. I hate it, but Cat just cannot run this offense, or this offense isn’t meant for Cat to run. He sucks the life out of things on the offense at the point. Reminds me of nine years ago offense.

    01/07/2015 at 9:04 PM #68509
    spintk
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    Idk know man. Playing 1 vs 5 in college basketball, ANY team could FORCE you into that. It has happened all year long. We get blown out or we barely lose, it doesn’t matter, the play stays the same. Only difference is that this game the shots were falling. When it gets crunch time; time to really strap up your boots and go to work–does Mark Gottfried have the coaching capacity to get us there? I think not.

    01/07/2015 at 9:09 PM #68510
    mak4dpak
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    No we didn’t, but we certainly could have won this game. Just didn’t play smart the last 6 minutes of the game, poor shooting, and not blocking out on their end. Live and learn. Beat Duke!

    01/07/2015 at 9:09 PM #68511
    charger17
    Participant

    C’mon now, just because we don’t have Bennett and the team at his disposal this year, doesn’t mean we need to talk about changing Gott. Did he get out-coached? Sure, but let’s regroup and keep fighting.

    01/07/2015 at 9:16 PM #68512
    redcanine
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    The game is much too fast for BeeJay and Lennard. And it only gets tougher for them from the free throw line when the clock has stopped. I’m very disappointed in their production.

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