Inside Carolina is reporting that Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green will all return to Chapel Hill for the 2008-2009 college basketball season, virtually guaranteeing that the Tarheels will hold the #1 preseason ranking as the heavy favorite to win the 2009 National Championship. Lawson, Ellington and Green had become the targets of significant […]
08-09 Basketball
Tudor’s Take on Next Year’s ACC Basketball
While we all admit that it is ridiculously early to start talking 2008-2008 Basketball…but, this is Tobacco Road and that is what we do! Caulton Tudor has provided his pre-summer prognostication for the entire conference and it can be seen here. The Wolfpack is picked 9th: 9. N.C. STATE (15-16, 4-12) PROJECTED STARTERS: Brandon Costner, […]
Fayetteville Observer – Critical Offseason for Lowe
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the “slow season.” As we wait for the NBA and NHL playoffs to die their slow, agonizing death and count the days until NFL training camp opens (i.e., when sports is legitimately “in session” again), there isn’t much to talk about. This morning, Dan Wiederer outlines some questions facing the […]
Fowler Makes His Performance a Public Issue; Sidney Lowe Q&A with Chip Alexander
There is an awful lot of interesting stuff for a Daily Update for it be a random Friday afternoon in late April. SFN will definitely have a lot more on the topics included in this entry in the coming days, but we wanted to get this out there for your comments as soon as possible. […]
No NC State in ACC/Big Ten Challenge
Link No surprise. Still doesn’t feel good. We are not going to allow comments in this entry since this would fit nicely into the basketball-related entry from yesterday. Click here for that entry and some great conversation. If you want a broader topic for a change of pace, then you can click here – where […]
More “Coach Fowler” Wisdom
Fowler’s talking to Tim Peeler on gopack.com, so you knew that some unintended hilarity would ensue. Although there are actually some good points in the article (SFN heartily welcomes the promised changes in the basketball office), we can’t resist commenting on this nugget: “Regarding basketball, when I was an assistant coach at the University of […]
Non-Conference Gets Upgrade for ’09, ’10, ’11 (Updated)
Those looking for tough out-of-conference scheduling need look no further than January 3, 2009 when NC State comes down to Gainesville to pay me a visit in a showdown with the Florida Gators. Of course we have yet to see how the conference schedule pans out, but most likely this will be the “tune-up” game […]
