This coming college basketball season will bring some interesting rule changes, especially in the area of instant replay. The NCAA is expanding the role of instant replay incrementally, giving referees a chance to correct errors they make and to make calls that they perhaps overlooked in the course of play. There are also rules designed […]
Hark The Sound of Jail Doors Slammin’ … Former UNC Tutor Jennifer Wiley Appears in Court to Face Charges
Former UNC football tutor Jennifer Wiley appeared in court today, facing charges that she illegally encouraged a former UNC player to sign with a sports agent. Jennifer Lauren Wiley Thompson, is facing four counts of athlete-agent inducement,  a Class I felony that carries a maximum sentence of 15 months in prison and a maximum fine of $25,000 […]
Interesting: ACC Men’s Basketball, Ranked by Expenditures
College sports these days is big business, and according the Basketball State, the ACC all of the team combined for nearly $100 Million in expenses last season. Â Granted, Syracuse, Notre Dame and Pittsburgh were not yet members of the conference, but given that they are now members of what may be the best hoops conference […]
Abu To Play Hoops At NC State
Mark Gottfried has made a solid addition to his 2014 recruiting class with the addition of Abdul Malik Abu: North Carolina State landed a big commitment on Saturday afternoon as 6’8″ power forward Abdul Malik Abu announced his collegiate decision from the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury Crossing, Massachusetts alongside Expressions Elite AAU teammate Jared Terrell. Abu, […]
State Nearly Gets Bitten By Spiders: 23-21 Wolfpack
To say that the NC State football team is in rebuilding mode would be a massive understatement. In a game that was supposed to be over by halftime, the Wolfpack barely survived the Division I-AA Richmond Spiders in a game that would likely have gone the other way had there been a mere twenty more […]
Highlights From NC State Hoops’ “Basic Athletic Measurement” Testing
All may be quiet on the basketball front right now, but an interesting video has popped on YouTube showing highlights of the Wolpack’s men’s hoops team going through B.A.M. Testing – or basic athletic measurement. Â It’s a basic measurement of different fundamental athletic skills, and identifies areas that a particular athlete may need to work […]
Dereck Whittenburg Comes Home; Joins Mark Gottfried’s Staff
Derek Whittenburg, a key player on the 1983 NC State national championship team, is returning to Raleigh to join the men’s basketball coaching staff. Whittenburg is a DeMatha (MD) graduate, a Morgan Wooten product and it showed on the court He came to State possessing solid basketball fundamentals and experience, and was a highly recruited […]
Scandal Over, UNC Wants To Grow Athletics Revenue to $100 Million
You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director […]
A New “Mixtape” of Incoming Freshman Kyle Washington Is On Youtube
The more I see of Kyle Washington on film, the more I am impressed with him as a player — he’s got a nice mid-range jumper, power around the rim, and he can flush a dunk with ease. Â That’s against prep competition, of course, which is a long way from competing against ACC competition, but […]
Purvis Banned From Transferring to Cincinnati and Missouri (Among Others)
In something that’s become standard practice across the landscape of college basketball, when Rodney Purvis was given his release by the Wolfpack to transfer, he was also given a list of schools he couldn’t transfer to:Â Â Missouri, Cincinnati, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Louisville. Why Cincinnati and Missouri? Â State plans to schedule the schools in the […]
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