Here’s a place for your commments on the State – Tech game as it progresses. Hopefully the Pack will open a can of Raid on the Yellow Jackets this afternoon.
08-09 Basketball
Degand Emerging
The key to this season for NC State was getting effective play from the PG position. Overall, Farnold Degand, Javier Gonzalez, and Julius Mays have not performed at the level NC State needed to make the NCAA tournament. However, an NIT bid would be a solid step for Sidney Lowe’s third team considering the change […]
Will The Pack Stay Hot in Atlanta? (Georgia Tech Pregame Thread)
The Pack travels to Atlanta tomorrow for a 1:30pm start against Georgia Tech in another must-win hoops contest. State could take a big step towards a post-season berth (the NIT still seems to be the most possible) with a win, and also, they could insure that they won’t finish DFL in the ACC regular season […]
NC State 82, #7 Wake Forest 76
#8 Wake Forest (18-4) 34 42 76 NCSU (13-9) 42 40 82 Boxscore Perhaps the best coverage is from long-time sportswriter A.J. Carr:Â “Wolfpack Knocks Off Deacons” (News and Observer) For a moment, let your imagination run rampant. Picture the No. 10 ranked team in the ACC beating the No. 7 ranked team in the […]
ACC Breakdown
Ken Pomeroy is no longer calculating the RPI for Division I basketball teams. He said that he was tired of answering questions about the RPI and that it provided virtually no useful data for the types of “more sophisticated work†that he was doing. This is especially sad for me, because I have used kenpom.com […]
Welcome to the Death Spiral, Sid!
I am prepared to make it official – Sidney Lowe has entered the Death Spiral. What did he learn from yesterday’s meltdown? “I thought Javi played well,†Lowe said after Gonzalez scored nine points with six assists in a 91-87 overtime loss at Virginia Tech. Lowe liked the way Gonzalez pushed the ball up the […]
ACC officials embarrass league, spark (Jamie) ‘Luckie’ comeback
If the ACC really wants to claim the “Best college basketball in the country†title, they have to fix their officiating. I won’t even go into some of the calls during the game (it’s a bad sign when both coaches are pissed off at the referees). The calls were bad enough, but they had to […]
Virginia Tech Gameday Thread
For two programs on such dramatically opposite performance arcs, the head-to-head record is startling – the Pack has won 6 games in a row. For Hokie fans, it must be hard to imagine what your program might have accomplished if not for this strange losing streak. I’m sure Seth Greenburg (aka “Basketball Grobe”) would prefer […]
Duke, Wake Each Lose By 27 (Good Link Updates @ Noon)
I can’t say that I saw this coming. Miami forced the Deacons to shoot from the perimeter – and they couldn’t do it. Looks like a good roadmap for other ACC teams. On the other hand, Clemson just beat Duke senseless with defensive pressure and transition baskets (as they and Carolina are uniquely suited to […]
Twenty Turnovers in Win Over Hapless Central
I listened to parts of each half, and it wasn’t very impressive. I heard at least two 10-second calls against State PGs. And the Eagles were actually up 10-2 at the first media timeout. Thankfully, State pulled away in the last ten minutes to avoid an embarrassing score in this morning’s paper. But against a […]
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