December 23, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL GoPack.com Wolfpack Rolls with 88-59 Win Over Northeastern Playing for the third time in just five days, NC State capped off a busy holiday stretch with an 88-59 home victory over Northeastern on Thursday night at the RBC Center. Led by the scoring of sophomores C.J. Leslie and Lorenzo […]
Gameday Headlines
December 17, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) Wolfpack has a realistic shot at knocking off No. 1 Having the nation’s top team come to town is a big deal, to be sure. But it’s not like a sighting of Halley’s Comet, something that happens only once or twice in a lifetime. Saturday’s game […]
Friday Farrago
December 16, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL GoPack.com Pack Hosts Top-Ranked Syracuse On Saturday For the first time since 1979, NC State will host a top-ranked non-conference foe when it plays Syracuse on Saturday at a sold out RBC Center. Game time is 6:30 and set for broadcast on ESPN2 with Jon Sciambi describing the action […]
Monday Musings
December 12, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL EDWARD G. ROBINSON III (N&O) Eagles give Wolfpack a scare N.C. State never trailed N.C. Central, yet it took a greater-than-expected effort to defeat the visitors from Durham. Fighting off the Eagles over the final five minutes of Sunday’s game, the Wolfpack escaped Reynolds Coliseum with a 65-60 victory […]
Friday Farrago
December 9, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL News and Observer Amerson is All-America N.C. State sophomore cornerback David Amerson has been named to the 2011 Walter Camp All-America first team. The team was recognized Thursday at the Home Depot/ESPN College Football Awards Show in Orlando, where Amerson is also a candidate for the Thorpe Award. Earlier […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
December 7, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL GoPack.com Football Goes Shopping for Toys for Tots Ten Wolfpack Football players took a break from studying for finals on Monday to help children throughout the Triangle by shopping for toys for the US Marines Toys for Tots program. Throughout the 2011 season, Coca-Cola donated $500 for each touchdown […]
Tuesday Tidbits
December 6, 2011 NC STATE FOOTBALL CHIP ALEXANDER (N&O) No rest for bowl bound Pack It was just before noon on Thanksgiving Day when N.C. State football coach Tom O’Brien was spotted jogging near Carter-Finley Stadium. Told that it was a holiday, that he should be home eating turkey, O’Brien smiled and replied, “It’s a […]
Monday Musings
December 5, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL JP GIGLIO (N&O) Pack loses lead, game With each trip to the foul line by Stanford, Lorenzo Brown could feel N.C. State unraveling. By the end of the free-throw parade on Sunday at Maples Pavilion, there was nothing left of the Wolfpack after a 76-72 road loss to the […]
Saturday’s Headlines
December 3, 2011 JP GIGLIO (N&O) Pack’s Vandenberg sidelined with shoulder injury N.C. State forward Jordan Vandenberg has missed the past two games with a shoulder injury, Wolfpack coach Mark Gottfried said Friday. Vandenberg, a 7-foot junior, is day-to-day, Gottfried said, but the coach hopes the forward will be able to play against Stanford on […]
Thursday Compendium
December 1, 2011 NC STATE BASKETBALL JP GIGLIO (N&O) Wolfpack falters against Hoosiers N.C. State and Indiana turned the RBC Center into a time machine on Wednesday night. Both proud programs have seen their national standing usurped by in-state rivals, but the only ACC-Big Ten Challenge matchup between two teams with multiple national titles felt […]
