Audio of the interview. “Winning is good, losing is bad,” Fowler said Wednesday morning in an interview on 99.9 FM The Fan. “We’ve been very frustrated this year. You have high expectations, and I think the fans did, and we have not lived up to them. That’s the huge frustration.” Fowler said some Wolfpack players […]
07-08 Basketball
“Quest for Last” Almost Complete
With Virginia’s 76-74 win over Georgia Tech last night, NC State is just one small step away from claiming the cellar in the ACC, along with the #12 seed in the ACCT. As long as the Wolfpack loses as expected at Wake Forest on Saturday (or Virginia and Boston College each wins 1 of its […]
Grant – “No Moral Victories”
My take is closer to Gavin’s than Tudor’s: “There are no moral victories,” Grant said. “There is no ‘L’ with an ‘M’ next to it.” “They made plays down the stretch. They could have easily folded, but they didn’t. They made plays and hung tough. That’s why they are who they are.”
Tudor: Gonzalez makes a good showing
But there was a winner on the opposite team, too. It was beleaguered Wolfpack point guard Javier Gonzalez, a freshman with such a maligned background that he spent part of Thursday afternoon begging for a reprieve in State coach Sidney Lowe’s office.So bad was Gonzalez’s performance in the Wolfpack’s 72-62 home loss to Florida State […]
Phantom Call Gives Duke Final Two Points
As both replays in this entry indicate, there was the slightest bit of contact during the first part of Nelson’s drive that was obviously initiated by Nelson’s hook. No whistle blew at the time of the contact. The whistle didn’t blow (and a foul wasn’t called) until a part of the play where there was […]
Duke Game Thread
A dreadful Senior Day is a near certainty. Final word: Yeah, it was dreadful. Just not in the way I expected. Duke takes it’s only second half lead at 87-86, and the game ends that way.
Salt in the Wound
Coach K will get his 800th win tomorrow. I had totally missed that. Always nice when someone achieves a milestone at NC State’s expense. This might shake me out of Acceptance and back into Depression, at least for a few hours.
Stages of Wolfpack Grief – Where Are You?
With last night’s loss, it’s pretty clear that NC State will finish 4-12 in ACC play, with no post-season. We will finish last if Virginia wins one of its final four games. Even so, I managed to watch last night’s game with a relaxed and calm demeanor. I don’t remember so much as a “damn […]
Florida State Game Thread
For the first time since the thrilling Miami win, I have tickets to tonight’s game. We are 4-0 in games that I attend this year (also attended Prebyterian, NC Central, and Davidson games). I’m not expecting to go 5-0, but we’ll see what happens. In Tallahassee earlier this year, the Pack was good (and the […]
WRAL: Pack’s Hickson “Trying to Get to” the NBA
Would N.C. State freshman J.J. Hickson turn professional after one season? Perhaps. On Tuesday, in one-on-one interview with WRAL, he addressed whether he’d consider the NBA after this season. “Being a competitor, the next level is the NBA. That’s what I’m trying to get to,” Hickson said. “If the opportunity is there, I’ll look at […]
