The ’13-’14 version of Wolfpack Basketball got underway Tuesday, as pre-season practice tipped off , and Pack players and coaches met with the media. The Wolfpack started practice a little earlier than usual this year, as a new rule in college basketball holds that college programs can start practicing 42 days before their first game. The […]
13-14 Basketball
Wolfpack Basketball Roster Configuration
We thought it would be a good time to re-assess the projected roster and scholarship configuration of the Wolfpack basketball program after Saturday’s announcement that Top 50 high school basketball player, Abdul Malik Abu will be playing in Raleigh (click here). As you can see from the projected roster below, the recent additions of Desmond […]
Highlights From NC State Hoops’ “Basic Athletic Measurement” Testing
All may be quiet on the basketball front right now, but an interesting video has popped on YouTube showing highlights of the Wolpack’s men’s hoops team going through B.A.M. Testing – or basic athletic measurement. Â It’s a basic measurement of different fundamental athletic skills, and identifies areas that a particular athlete may need to work […]
2013-2014 Men’s Basketball schedule doesn’t let off the gas
More to come, but the schedule is released here. “I always want a difficult schedule,” Gottfried said. “I want to be aggressive even in a year when we are so young and inexperienced.” In addition to an enhanced 18-game ACC slate, the Wolfpack will play 10 games against teams that played in the 2013 NCAA […]
Preseason Webrun
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) N.C. State DT K’Hadree Hooker transferring to ECU Defensive tackle K’Hadree Hooker has traded in his N.C. State red for East Carolina purple. The 6-foot-0, 307-pound redshirt freshman, who released from his scholarship at State earlier in the day, announced Thursday evening on Twitter that he will continue his […]
Preseason Webrun
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) Scrimmage performance helps transfer Mitchell become Wolfpack QB frontrunner Friday after practice, N.C.State football coach Dave Doeren said that the five-man battle for the Wolfpack’s starting quarterback job had been narrowed down to just two – senior transfer Brandon Mitchell and junior Pete Thomas. Judging from Doeren’s comments following […]
Dereck Whittenburg Comes Home; Joins Mark Gottfried’s Staff
Derek Whittenburg, a key player on the 1983 NC State national championship team, is returning to Raleigh to join the men’s basketball coaching staff. Whittenburg is a DeMatha (MD) graduate, a Morgan Wooten product and it showed on the court He came to State possessing solid basketball fundamentals and experience, and was a highly recruited […]
Summer Headlines
Hey fellow Wolfpackers, it’s July so that means it’s the slowest sports news cycle of the year but there have been a few headlines across the web over the past few days that I’d like to post just so we don’t let the news pass us by. First we’ll start off with a little NC […]
Wednesday Misc: Some Basketball Links
Tuesday provided the first “on the court” look at the pieces of the ’13-’14 edition of Wolfpack Basketball as it was the first day for summer workouts. NC State trying to solidify ‘program in transition’ (WRALSportsFan.com) Tuesday marked the first day of on-court workouts as freshmen and transfers joined returnees Tyler Lewis, TJ Warren and […]
Tuesday Miscellaneous
If you haven’t already, check out Monday’s Miscellaneous. Rashard Smith’s emergence (Fayetteville Observer): Rashard Smith arrived at North Carolina State as a cornerback, fought back from a knee injury that cost him more than a year and then converted to receiver only to earn a reserve role. Now, he’s poised for much more in the […]
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