This sort of thing drives me crazy: unsubstantiated speculation that is 100% paradoxical to reality. From a (supposed) ‘professional journalist’: Fox/Goodman: 65 Things to Watch For This College Season Three ACC coaches — Maryland’s Gary Williams, N.C. State’s Sidney Lowe and Florida State’s Leonard Hamilton — are feeling a little heat to win. My guess […]
08-09 Basketball
Is CJ Williams the next Brian Howard?
NC State’s Men’s Basketball team will tip-off the real season this Saturday night at New Orleans. (How in God’s name was Quinten Jackson allowed to schedule our first game of the year on the road to open another school’s arena? Could we REALLY not have gotten a scrub team at home to get a little […]
NC State News – 11/12 (updated with football game article)
–Wake game story from Winston-Salem Journal “I would be surprised if our guys see North Carolina State as anything but a really good football team in the ACC — and you’d better go play if you’re going to win,” Grobe said yesterday. “I don’t think it’s going to be the trap game in the sense […]
wufpup76 Recaps Exhibition Opener
I carved this completely out of the comments section – I offer wufpup76 a well-earned hat tip: Just got back from the game … Here is my postgame report – – Obviously, the big news of the night is the injury to Johnny Thomas, which is very unfortunate … I did’nt see it happen (obscured […]
Basketball tips tonight! 3 Questions for the Wolfpack
WOW! I can’t believe the time is already here for exhibition basketball. Section Six actually has a preview of what appears to be a pretty bad Fort Valley State team with whom we will do battle tonight in Reynolds Coliseum. NC State opens its 2009 season with an exhibition game against Div-II Fort Valley State […]
Let’s Hope That This Isn’t A Sign Of Things To Come (Again)
We will have a little more on basketball in the coming days, but one thing from the Red-White hoops game in Reynolds from the weekend jumps out at me: Charlotte Observer/Raleigh N&O: Red and White Game [Fans at the Red and White game] didn’t get a chance to examine the game of slimmed-down Brandon Costner, […]
Bilas on Lowe: “They’ve Just Got To Give Him The Time”
There’s nothing like saying the same thing three or four times in the same paragraph to make a point: Bilas: Lowe Just Needs Some Time “But I think Sidney (Lowe) is a good coach, and I think every guy needs some time. And he hasn’t had that yet. I’ll tell you one thing, when they […]
(8pm Update) State’s First Basketball Practice Doesn’t Make Hometown Newspaper
Say What? No Room for NC State Coverage? Saturday’s News & Observer told the world that basketball is back in style at Duke. At Carolina, Roy Williams relishes the role as the favorite. But, Sunday’s News and Observer somehow found room in today’s sports pages for an article about former UNC-CH quarterback Darian Durant’s play […]
Two Very Good Reasons To Attend Saturday’s Open Hoops Practice
Derrick Favors To Visit Saturday, Attend Open Practice Coming up this weekend is a trip to N.C. State, which Favors said he’s looking forward to meeting John Wall, a 6-4, 175-pound guard out of Raleigh (N.C.) Word of God Academy (left) and the top recruit in the nation according to Rivals, said he wants to […]
Coach Lowe’s Quote of the Day
“There’s only one voice, and that’s my voice,” Lowe said. “… It’s my way. And our guys understand that”……”I can assure you, we will never have that situation again,” Lowe said. “They’re going to accept their roles, and I think our guys know that. And if they don’t, they won’t play.” – NC State Head […]
