According to collegehoops.net, the Pack’s is the best in the land: 1. North Carolina State (Brandon Costner, Ben McCauley, Gavin Grant, J.J. Hickson, Tracy Smith): Just like Washington State in the backcourt section, it’s odd to see NC State at the top of any rankings. However, it’s tough to find a team that has a […]
07-08 Basketball
Monte Towe On The PG Situation
“We can be good, we just need to stop getting hurt,” said assistant coach Monte Towe, a former playmaker for the school. If the Wolfpack had lost Iowa State transfer guard Farnold Degand, then there would be some cause for alarm. Degand is going to be the starting point guard. He will be the most […]
Javier Gonzalez Undergoes Surgery To Repair Ligament Damage To Shooting Thumb
By NC State Media Relations NC State head men’s basketball coach Sidney Lowe has announced that point guard Javier Gonzalez underwent surgery on Saturday to repair a ligament in his right (shooting) thumb. Gonzales suffered the injury on Friday during a skill workout when he dove for a loose ball. Gonzalez, a 6-0 freshman from […]
NC State Ranked #17 In Blue Ribbon Pre-Season Poll
GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina heads up a list of four ACC teams ranked in the Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook Preseason Top 25 rankings. In addition to the top-ranked Tar Heels, Duke is ranked 14th, NC State 17th and Clemson 21st. I know. I know. I am just as perplexed as you after Lee […]
Wednesday BBall & Johnny Thomas Bytes
In the midst of the Wolfpack’s 9th straight loss on the gridiron this weekend, we flippantly made reference to the start of basketball season. With that said, we should probably not ignore some of the relevant roundball issues: * Let me start by thanking 850TheBuzz for highlighting what we all know related to the recent […]
Basketball Starts in less than two Months
NC State will open the basketball season with an exhibition game against Barton College on Thursday, November 1st at 7pm. Oh, and Johnny Thomas hurt his knee and is out for the season.
DBR Previews the Pack
More good news for basketball! And what do you know, they have very good things to say: What State accomplished, in the upsets of UNC and Virginia Tech in the regular season, followed by the magical March ride, was to reconnect with State’s tremendous tradition. From Everett Case to Norm Sloan to Jim Valvano, State […]
Turning to Good News!!
About mid-way through the 2nd quarter of Saturday’s loss to UCF I turned to my friends and uttered something that I haven’t been able to say in almost twenty years when I asked– “When does basketball season start?” In that spirit, it is worth noting a couple of basketball-related items to help us get into […]
Gavin Grant Sets the Bar High
“With the incoming freshmen we have coming in here and what we have coming back, I don’t see us losing any more than four games this year,” Grant began. “Honestly. If we stay healthy, I think we have the talent to be a Final Four team and contend for a national championship.” He had just […]
Basketball Schedule Released (With OOC Analysis)
The 2007-2008 basketball schedule is hot off the presses. Our first glance tells us that, there are not a lot of Sunday night FSN games this year. 10/27 – Red/White Scrimmage 11/1 – Barton College (Exh.) 7:00 p.m. SFN Analysis: We’ll probably have to link to the YouTube of the wild D-III finish again. Let’s […]
