Pack Pride is reporting that Thomas will graduate and move on from the program. After graduating he could also transfer and play right away somewhere other than NC State. According to NC State head coach Sidney Lowe, redshirt junior Johnny Thomas is graduating this summer and could look to move on from NC State, possibly transferring […]
College Basketball
NC State is Nation’s Fifth Most Profitable Hoops Program
Financial statements of the nation’s 344-odd Division I NCAA teams are out and and NC State’s hoops program is among the nation’s best in terms of profit margin. Looking at the numbers above, you will see that UNC-CH generates almost twice as much revenue as NC State, but that it’s matching expenses are more than […]
Coaching Legend John Wooden dies at 99
6/4 Update ESPN Story John Wooden, college basketball’s gentlemanly Wizard of Westwood who built one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports at UCLA and became one of the most revered coaches ever, has died. He was 99. The university said Wooden died Friday night of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, […]
Vegas Odds on 2011 National Basketball Champion
While we’ve been spending some time providing you a lot of valuable information to help you craft realistic expectations for next basketball season some schools have a little more reason to be excited about next year. This link will take you to some conversations focused on some preseason polls, and this link will take you […]
Think the hype’s bad now? Wait until October
The hype machine regarding NC State basketball has reached a fevered pitch in the last week with every local media outlet running story after story about how expectations for next season are rising and how the Wolfpack should be a contender in the ACC. Based solely on what the roster should look like that’s a […]
ACC’s new TV deal coming within 10 days
It was a busy Thursday evening for several NC State coaches as hundreds of fans packed a Wolfpack Club Caravan at the football practice facility. With the exit of Lee Fowler coming at the end of June and all of the excitement surrounding men’s basketball, the caravan was quite a big draw for local media. […]
Basketball attendance falls in 2009-2010, but Pack remain in top 25
Although NC State’s attendance numbers fell in 2009-2010, the Wolfpack was still able to remain in the top-25 nationally and pull in more than 13,000 fans per contest. Make no mistake, less fans in the seats (even if it’s less than 300 per contest) is a bad thing. But considering the struggles of the basketball […]
Report: Wear Brothers to Transfer from Carolina
This week keeps getting better. (Link) According to a report in the Long Beach Press-Telegram David and Travis Wear are set to leave the University of North Carolina. The two Wears each averaged about 10 minutes per game in their freshman seasons. The Wear’s father told Frank Burlison of the Long Beach Press-Telegram that he […]
C.J. Leslie to sign LOI today at Sammy’s
If you’re planning on coming out to see C.J. sign his national letter of intent Tuesday at 5 p.m., you better come out early. Ryan Harrow’s signing party at Sammy’s was a standing room only affair and it was at 12 o’clock in the afternoon on a Wednesday. I suspect Mr. Leslie’s party will be […]
Kentucky & academics like oil & water
The Dagger has an interesting blog entry titled: “Kentucky flopped in the classroom in Calipari’s first season” According to records obtained by the Lexington Herald-Leader, Kentucky had a cumulative GPA of 2.025 for fall semester, lowest among all 20 teams at the school. That was also the worst semester GPA a Kentucky men’s basketball team […]
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