Tracy Smith’s suspension for tonights big game at Arizona is drawing commentary from national personalities. Yesterday, Sporting News’ Mike DeCourcy chimed in with some thoughts about the league’s policy. The key descriptive term here is — ‘absurd’. State your case It’s not a First Amendment issue; it’s a common sense issue: No way should N.C. […]
09-10 Basketball
Tracy Smith Suspended for Arizona Game (Updated at 2:15pm)
Jesus. Right before one of our ‘defining’ games for the season. Obviously, Smith should have just called the refs a bunch of GD MutherF’ers right on the court during the game so that he could be afforded the same flexibility that Coach K and Gary Williams receive on a nightly basis. Link to Wolfpacker RALEIGH, […]
Wake Forest 67 NC State 59
State lost to Wake last night in a game that, unfortunately, played out almost exactly as I expected. (Link to game story) The Las Vegas line favored Wake by 9.5 and the Demon Deacons won by 8. The following sums up the game in short order: The ACC’s top rebounding team held a 48-40 advantage […]
State @ Wake
NC State travels to Wake Forest tonight for a ‘big’ game for both teams. Although this is a conference game, it is one of three defining games the Wolfpack will play – Wake, @ Arizona, vs Florida – before the conference season kicks into high gear in January. Rush the Court is going to “Cover […]
Sidney Speaks
Asking for some forgiveness from you guys as I have been down for the count sick the last couple of days. Was feeling guilty about not updating the blog, so wanted to quickly throw a couple of interviews with Coach Lowe up for your review. Dave Glenn interviews Sidney and Coach Lowe does an excellent […]
The ‘Degand Difference’ – State wins on road vs Big East’s Marquette
NC State 77 Marquette 73 NC State avenged last year’s painful last-second loss to Marquette with a resouding second half performance to advance to a surprising 6-1 record this year. State’s win ended Marquette’s 24 consecutive home win streak vs non-conference opponents. With no disrespect to the performance delivered by Tracy Smith, Javi Gonzalez, Dennis […]
NC State travels to Marquette
Marquette shoots for their 25th consecutive out of conference regular season win today by hosting the Wolfpack in Milwaukee. State comes into today’s game with a 5-1 record. Check out the comments that we made last year prior to Marquette’s visit to Raleigh: Today is the day that we naturally step into elevated interest in […]
State can’t stay undefeated – can Farnold Degand get is *(#&$ together to help this team?
In relatively even match-ups on the hardwood, one can often point to a single statistic that makes a difference in a one-game battle. This pretty much describes NC State’s loss tonight at the RBC Center to the Northwestern Wildcats. For the night, NC State shot a putrid 2 of 18 for 11% from the three-point […]
ACC-Big Ten Challenge Preview
As has been noted by many voices in many publications/forums – this has hardly been much of a “challenge” for the ACC. The Big Ten has always lost, and has usually been crushed. Many believe that this year will be different, and we at SFN agree. Rather than predict each game in standard format, I […]
Monday Morning Breather
Quite a weekend in Wolfpack land with the football team’s big finish to the season and the Basketball team’s surprising 5-0 start! We Twittered and posted and conversed on the message boards until we were (happily) exhausted. The Big Ten Challenge starts tonight with Virginia and Penn State. For the first time in the history […]
