Today Coach Kellie Harper’s team upset the top seed in the ACC Tournament, Duke, 75-73. After coming back from a halftime deficit for the first time all year yesterday in defeating Florida State 74-71, the Wolfpack women won the right to play the ACC’s top seed with a gaudy 15-1 conference regular season record. History […]
11-12 Basketball
Friday Farrago
March 2nd, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL Caulton Tudor (N&O) Wood’s back and so is the Pack The prevailing theory among N.C. State basketball fans for the past several games was that Scott Wood had to resurface at some point. Those fans were right. After missing 31 of his last 38 field-goal attempts, the normally accurate […]
Thursday Compendium
March 1st, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL Bret Strelow (FayObserver.com) Wolfpack’s Alex Johnson comes through in clutch With Williams enduring a rough senior night, Johnson gave the Wolfpack a welcomed boost. He sacrificed his body defensively and provided N.C. State with a second ball-handler, finding open teammates without putting possessions at risk. And when Johnson needed […]
Gameday Headlines — Pack vs. Canes
February 29, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL Bret Strelow (FayObserver.com) C.J. Williams will have support of his family, as always, on Senior Night at N.C. State N.C. State’s senior night has arrived; reason for Jack Britt High School alum C.J. Williams to celebrate and his parents to reflect. C.J.’s father, Wendell, is amazed at how well […]
NCSU is not alone in our disgust at the Duke/UNC double standard
Other people are beginning to tire of the obvious “kid glove” treatment Duke and UNC have been receiving by the ACC. It is a subject that has been discussed on our blog many, many times. In this article in the Augusta Free Press, Chris Graham makes many of the same observations we have made. […]
State loses at Clemson in OT, 72-69
State put its very slim NCAAT hopes on ice today with a lackluster, often listless showing at Clemson, dropping its fourth straight. Now its only shot is to run the table in Atlanta in two weeks. The real losers today were the fans, who were forced to watch five extra minutes of “ACC Excitement” (10 […]
State-Clemson Game Thread
The game is on the The ACC Network, 2:30pm. That’s WRAL locally. Have at it below. Also make sure to check out the SFN Forums.
Saturday Basketball Briefing
=====> NC State basketball recruit and McDonald’s All-American Rodney Purvis scored 53 points last night in his final home basketball game as a high schooler. =====> The N&O’s Joe Giglio has reported through his twitter account (@jpgiglio) that the ACC has moved Karl ‘Rabbit Ears’ Hess off of this scheduled appearance in the RBC […]
Wednesday Woolgathering
February 22, 2012 NC STATE BASKETBALL Bret Strelow (FayObserver.com) Despite loss to North Carolina, N.C. State still has shot at NCAA Tournament bid Goal unreachable N.C. State no longer can reach the 11-5 league mark that Gottfried established as a goal, but victories against Clemson (road), Miami (home) and Virginia Tech (road) would put the […]
State-Carolina Gameday
The game is on The ACC Network, 8pm; locally that’s WRAL. The 1989 team — for you younger folks, that was our last regular-season champion — will be honored before tonight’s game. No word from the ACC yet if that’s considered “excessive demonstration.” As for the future of the rivalry? WRAL: The University of North […]
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