UNC-Asheville became the first basketball of team to earn an automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Tournament by defeating top-seeded Coastal Carolina University to win the Big South Conference Championship. Congratulations to UNC-A’s Head Basketball Coach and one of the greatest Wolfpackers to ever live, Eddie Biedenbach. Link to article and an video of an […]
College Basketball
Van Pelt & Williams rip Terps fans
Some great stuff in this article out of Washington — The Terps and their crowd Both ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt AND Head Coach Gary Williams getting into the act. Just imagine if NC State had a Hall of Fame Coach who won a National & ACC Title within the last 10 years who was fighting […]
My Response to Stupidity
Well let’s start with a recap: First State fans are attacked with a mini-tsunami of ignorant analyses. Then the local media responds to the inane utterances with a little rational discussion based on actual facts. (Yea I know. Hard to believe, huh?) I especially appreciated Al Featherston’s approach of presenting State’s history to defend the […]
Local media rushes to defend NC State against national hacks
Many props to long-time ACC sportswriters Al Featherson and Brett Friedlander for their latest columns that will be linked towards the end of this entry Also, our local radio guys like Dave Glenn, Joe Ovies, and Adam Gold have defended us all week as well. Maybe from now on the hosts won’t waste time on […]
Seth Davis & SFN address NC State fans
Dear NC State fans, Don’t you feel smarter and significantly more special being condescended to by a Duke graduate of the ilk of Seth Davis? Now that you’ve seen the video once…go back and watch it again with some cynicism and a more discerning eye. Is it me, or does Seth’s comments of our history […]
Say it isn’t so…Sendek on the hot seat?
I couldn’t believe my eyes when someone posted this link on our message boards, but apparently someone in the media is actually following Herb Sendek’s results at Arizona St. With the constant shots taken at NC State by our broadcast partners at ESPN and Raycom(specifically Mike Patrick, Mike Gminski, Tim Brando, and Len Elmore), then […]
Overview of ACC Basketball
The ACC has limped through the first half of the conference schedule. So let’s see if it looks as bad as it feels: We have looked at the NCAAT bubble many times over the last several years. Based on those observations, I’ve developed the following criteria for ranking the teams: IN = RPI <40 and […]
ACC Basketball Update (1-21)
We’re two weeks into the ACC season, so I thought that I would take a look and see how the conference is shaping up since entering league play. But before we get to that, I’m going to make a valiant effort to explain what is going on with the “numbers†used in these updates and […]
NCSU’s TV exposure
I was looking at our schedule and wondered why we had so few early games on TV. It seemed like every time you turned on ESPN Duke or UNC was playing but I had to scour the web for a crappy feed of my Pack. I realize the argument could be made the TV execs […]
NCAA BBall: Major college team scores only 41 points AT HOME
Ouch! This doesn’t happen every night, so we thought we would mention it. Link Both coaches took over programs in need. But, while playing on the road, the coach in only his 3rd year was able to best a coach in the 5th year of building his program by a 55-41 margin. The good news […]
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