Basketball has taken center-stage a little this week as football is still two weeks away and the ACC released 06-07 Basketball schedules yesterday. (N&O Story, Durham Herald Sun Story) A few quick hits: * Did anyone note that Seton Hall was NOT on NC State’s schedule despite previous public statements that indicated that the Wolfpack […]
06-07 Basketball
2006-07 Basketball Schedule Released
Here’s the link. Of the 12 OOC games, you have 4 games against legitimate, major conference opponents (2005-06 Sagarin rankings in parentheses) – home vs. Michigan (32) and Alabama (40), away vs. West Virginia (18) and Cincy (33). That’s not too shabby, although one has to figure that West Virginia and Cincy will be appreciably […]
Brackman Update – Good News, Bad News
Good work by the Durham Herald-Sun today. Because, I am a realist/pessimist, I will start with the bad news portion: “My first two years, it was all basketball, and then baseball came second,” said Brackman, who is on a basketball scholarship. “I think it should be baseball first and basketball second.” Lowe wasn’t eager to […]
UNC-G Visits State on Jan 2nd
Last week we detailed what we knew regarding NC State’s 2006-2007 Men’s Basketball schedule in an etnry that got a lot of attention. (Link) Today, we have confirmation that UNC-Greensboro will visit NC State on January 2nd.
BBall Scheduling Talk
Since we were talking football scheduling on Tuesday, I figured that we might as well also take care of some basketball scheduling. BJD beat me to the topic of scheduling back in May, so I wanted to piggyback his thoughts before NC State released the 2006-2007 Basketball Schedule. New Director of Basketball Operations, Quentin Jackson […]