We shared some thoughts in an updated game entry below, but I wanted to chime in with some more specific comments. Reactive vs System? After watching Sidney coach I have been very impressed with both his preparation and in game adjustments. During the games, he has made good use of his timeouts, changed defenses effectively […]
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More Lowe (or is it “Lower”?)
SFN has been on fire the last couple of days so I encourage you to please spend some time surfing through the recent entries on the blog. When I worked on this piece with some of the other authors yesterday I couldn’t get over my joy of reading what Andy Katz wrote in his INsider […]
Positive Basketball Vibes/Michigan Live Blogging
I don’t really have time for it, but what the hell – I think I’ll try to live blog the Michigan game tonight. How will Sidney Lowe and his Iron Five handle their first true test? I expect us to play with lots of emotion tonight, and hopefully feed off the crowd. We have absolutely […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
SFN Note: SFN welcomes a new author to the stable today. LRM actually helped contribute to the original Statefans.com back in 2002 and 2003 and has re-attached to our new blog team here at StateFansNation. We look forward to more of LRM’s “View from the Cheap Seats” in the future! I’ll be honest: I really […]
OTR: Lowe Era Begins Tonight With “5 Pack”
The Sidney Lowe era begins in Raleigh tonight!!!! It is no secret that Coach Lowe has been dealt quite a tough hand in his first year of collegiate coaching. The Wolfpack is thin. Very thin. A YOUNG starting five of Engin Atsur (Sr); Courtney Fells (So); Gavin Grant (Jr); Brandon Costner (Fr); and Ben McCauley […]
SFN Impact Update
Some of the nice comments from our readers in this entry from Tuesday prompted today’s quick reflective note. Bank in July we gave you an update of how our blog had exploded during the year and shared some of our statistics with you. You can see our comments by clicking here. Today we thought that […]
Fowler’s Fate May Rest in Lowe’s Hands (Updated 11/7)
We are pretty busy this morning and don’t have a lot of time to comment right now. We saw this artice in the Fayetteville Observer and figured it would generate some comments from you so we wanted to get it on the site. More later. In our archives we ran across this old entry from […]
Rumor Alert: State to Play Basketball Tonight! (Updated 2:15pm)
Did you ever think that you would see and NC State website proclaiming “Thank God for the N&O!” “The Wolfpack plays its first preseason exhibition game under coach Sidney Lowe and it could be a test. Northern State, a Division II school in Aberdeen, S.D., finished 27-6 last season and returns three starters. The Wolves, […]
More Hickson in the Media
To illustrate the point of why JJ Hickson’s commitment was so vital to the health (and maybe more importantly, the perceived health) of the NC State basketball program, we direct you to this Fayetteville Observer article and Dave Glenn’s insightful blog post. Perhaps the best summary I’ve seen is in the last two paragraphs of […]
Others Catching the Pack’s Optimism
This week has been quite a whirlwind for NC State’s Basketball program. Heading into the week the program had been told that Chris Wright was going to announce his selection for NC State on Tuesday. Between Monday night and Wednesday – Wright had changed his mind, Andrew Brackman’s decision to play baseball became public, and […]
