Relevant Background: April 23rd: Lowe in Media; Pack playing in Hawaii April 24th: Katz Correction, no Hawaii for Wolfpack In this article today we ran across the following: Look for N.C. State to be a part of the eight-team field that will participate in the third annual Glenn Wilkes Classic in Daytona Beach from Nov. […]
09-10 Basketball
SFN is ‘Pulse of the Fan Base’
SFN would like to thank the great folks from the ACC Sports Journal for inviting us to partner with them on their weekly ‘Pulse of the Fan Base’. They posted the feature to their website last night and it can be read by clicking here. Over the last 12 months the blog has generated more […]
Projected NC State Basketball Roster
Since the news of Justin Gainey’s departure for Elon became public today, we thought we would also update from previous roster changes entry. On paper, State’s starting lineup looks like: Javier Gonzalez at the point, Brown at the 2-guard, C.J. Williams at small forward, Howell at the 4 and Smith at center. Off the bench […]
Pack Signs Aussie Center
I have been waiting for a news article on Jordan Vandenberg to link to, but it doesn’t seem forthcoming. So, here’s a link to The Wolfpacker, with very little information. My take is that Vandenberg is a 7-foot center project. However, that is not a criticism. He’s not a bad fallback option when you miss […]
Katz Correction, no Hawaii for Wolfpack
Say it isn’t so!? Andy Katz gets a report wrong? Next you will try to convince me that the Pope has Catholic tendencies! A day after Katz ran a report that claimed NC State playing in a tournament in Hawaii this Christmas, Joe Giglio sets the record straight. N.C. State’s basketball team will not be […]
Mass Exodus
It will probably take a while to process all of this week’s activity once all of the chips fall (Gerald Henderson?)…but, we didn’t want to ignore all of the recent developments that will have a huge impact on the ACC/College Basketball landscape next season. (By the way, we already began discussing next year’s college basketball […]
Lowe in the Media; State playing in Hawaii
The following is some biting criticism from one of the more prominent national college basketball blogs: Let’s run through the challengers for Duke in the state of North Carolina (NC State left out for Sidney Lowe obvious reasons). Ouch! It is very painful to continue to be ridiculed for our complete irrelevance as a competitive […]
Pack to host Northwestern in ACC/Big 10 Challenge
NC State will host Northwestern on December 1st as a part of this year’s ACC/Big 10 Challenge. You can click here for the full pairings. The ACC has won each of the past 10 challenges. ACC teams have won 62 of 97 (64 percent) of the games. The ACC won last year’s event 6-5. Sorry…I […]
ACC/Big Ten Challenge Set (Northwestern at NCSU 12/1)
Via Joe Giglio at ACC Now and a little more commentary from ACCSports.com can be viewed here. There is a rematch of UNC-Michigan State, which will be played in the Smith Center, and Duke goes on the road to play Wisconsin. No word as to whether Wisconsin will agree to move the game to the […]
Random Shots
Where do you start when building a college basketball team? Mike Huguenin’s answer: Give me the elite point guard….. Jason King’s answer: …To me, though, the biggest key to any winning team is the coach… Steve Megargee’s answer: … I’d lean toward the point guard because he’s more likely to make an instant impact and […]
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