After seeing Wake Forest lose to Wofford, Florida State lose to Princeton and BC lose to Rhode Island, I started wondering what the ACC looked like when Swofford became the commissioner and how that compared to the mess we are seeing today. Swofford became the commissioner in 1997. Here are where the ACC teams in […]
College Basketball
14 GuzInto 18…
How often do you get a chance to roll TV trivia into a title of a blog entry? For full credit, list the show, character’s name, and actor’s name that inspired this title. (no search engines allowed). Extra credit to those under 30 that know the answers without cheating. As promised, we are going to […]
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 […]
Oral Roberts unlikely buzzer beater
“Let’s go to overtime…” Link to The Dagger’s blog entry.
Syracuse starts the week at #1 (Updated 6:30am)
The Syracuse Orange will visit the RBC Center on Saturday evening as the nation’s top ranked basketball team, providing NC State a unique opportunity to compete against a #1 ranked national out of conference opponent. The Orange and the Pitt Panthers will join the Atlantic Coast Conference at some (yet undetermined) time in the future; […]
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 […]
Pack beats NC Central 65-60
In a game that was closer than it should have been: Senior C.J. Williams, playing in his 100th career game, scores a career-high 21 points as NC State wins another throwback game at Reynolds Coliseum, 65-60. The Pack returns to action on Saturday against third-ranked Syracuse at the RBC Center. This victory propels the Wolfpack […]
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 […]
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