ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit chose NC State for his “Upset Watch” today against Wake Forest. One key item currently going the Wolfpack’s way is the nature of our injury report. (Link) It doesn’t look like State is dealing with too many key injuries heading into the game. We are going to take a quick stab in […]
Others Catching the Pack’s Optimism
This week has been quite a whirlwind for NC State’s Basketball program. Heading into the week the program had been told that Chris Wright was going to announce his selection for NC State on Tuesday. Between Monday night and Wednesday – Wright had changed his mind, Andrew Brackman’s decision to play baseball became public, and […]
Atlantic > Coastal
After Boston College throttled overrated Virginia Tech last night on ESPN there is NO DOUBT that the ACC’s Atlantic Division is clearly superior to the Coastal. Considering that FSU defeated Miami in the first game of the year, a current case could easily be made that four of the five best teams in the ACC […]
Dynomite! J.J. Hickson Commits To NC State (Updated 4:30)
Big day for Sidney Lowe and the NC State basketball program. J.J. Hickson (Scout.com rated: 5 Star recruit, 3rd best center in the ’07 class, and #21 overall) commits to Coach Lowe at a press conference in Georgia. Kudos to Coach Lowe, and Larry Harris, the lead recruiter, reeling this top notch player into the […]
Amato Off Mandel’s List
In June of 2005, Sports Illustrated‘s Stewart Mandel listed Chuck Amato as the nation’s most over-rated coach. (Link) In June of 2006, Sports Illustrated‘s Stewart Mandel demoted Chuck Amato and called him the nation’s worst coach.(Link) This week, Mandel made some revisions to his 2006 list. In a move that Jeff obviously supported in this […]
Basketball Recruit JJ Hickson Decides Today at 4pm
Fresh off the sting losing Chris Wright to Georgetown, J.J. Hickson will decide between NC State and Tennessee today at 4pm. Hickson is rated #21 overall in Dave Telep’s 2007 class rankings.
Sidney Needs to Make One More Hire
A quick suggestion for NC State’s new Basketball Coach — hire yourself your OWN media relations/marketing person to help run things for you; because if you continue to leave things up to the same folks who have been running things for you then you are going to always be behind the 8-ball. Wednesday’s NC State […]
Official: Chris Wright to Georgetown & No Hoops for Brackman
Couple quick afternoon notes. * Andrew Brackman wasn’t at media day, and his name wasn’t on the roster. * Chris Wright changed his mind on Monday and picked Georgetown. He has a PC this afternoon and made his pick official. * Don’t miss some of our related conversation in this entry from earlier today. A […]
Poll Week 7
1. Ohio State 2. Florida 3. Michigan 4. Southern Cal 5. Tennessee 6. Texas 7. Louisville 8. West Virginia 8. Auburn 10. LSU 11. California 12. Georgia Tech 13. Notre Dame 14. Clemson 15. Arkansas 16. Iowa 17. Georgia 18. Missouri 18. Nebraska 20. Oklahoma 21. Virginia Tech 22. Oregon 22. Boston College 22. Rutgers […]
We HOPE last week was also great for basketball (Updated 9:10 am)
Where is Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McInnis and Ray Allen when you need them? SFN hated for the sun to go down on Friday night because it meant that the previous 24 hours had to end! In addition to the great day for the Wolfpack football program on Thursday/Friday, NC State/Sidney Lowe’s basketball recruiting put together […]
