I think so. It was disgusting to watch this overachieving Carolina team come in and outwork us like that. They wanted each loose ball, each rebound 1000 times worse than we did. To his credit, Sendek didn’t try putting any lipstick on the pig, admitting that we were outcoached, outplayed, out-everything. And that pretty much […]
SFN Stuff
DT vs Dr J: The Day the Dunk was Born
Last year, Street & Smith magazine attempted to rank the nation’s college basketball programs for all of history. If I remember correctly, NC State came in somewhere around 20th. (For some reason my memory is blurry on this and I feel relatively confident saying that we were somewhere between 17th and 22nd. Don’t ask me […]
Lavin: Personality of Team
“They’re (NC State’s team & players) temperment really is an extension of Coach Sendek’s temperment” Steve Lavin, ABC Television February 18, 2006
On the Record – ACC Title Expectations
So, I posted an entry today that had been sitting unfinished in my drafts for almost 8 months in an attempt to make a pretty simple point about the overall state of the NC State Athletics Department by using the “highlights” of the 2004-2005 athletics season. Some of the conversation around the topic was getting […]
04-05: Another Unimpressive Year
Author’s Note: This entry was written around May of 2005 and was never submitted on the site. The entry was unfinished until some quick edits today and has been sitting in my drafts box since mid-2005. Over the next few weeks I plan on highlighting some macro-topics on the site – performance, expectations, rivalries, etc […]
One Possession Games (3 Pts or less)
Herb Sendek Era (1996-2006) * 20-32 overall * 4-17 in last 21 games * Lost 15 of 20 games with Julius Hodge’s recruiting class * 6-17 in the last four and half “great” seasons 11/25/96: 44-41 Penn State (W) 1/15/97: 56-59 North Carolina (L) 1/25/97: 52-53 Georgia Tech (L) 2/12/97: 44-45 North Carolina (L) 2/16/97: […]
Campout Draws Small Crowd
My, how things have changed. The article linked above and yesterday’s “Shooting Gallery” conversation got me thinking some about the past and the topic of the campout. I was a student at NC State from 1989 through 1993. From a basketball perspective, these certainly were not the “glory years” about which I had increasingly dreamed […]
Shooting Gallery
A discussion at the end of a comment string last week got me thinking – what would an all-time “first team” list of ACC shooters look like? I had a chance to discuss with two colleagues at lunch (one Duke fan, one UNC fan), and we seemed to agree on the following: Updated: You convinced […]
RPI and NCAA Seeds
Recently I have noticed a tendency to predict State’s seed in the NCAA tournament based on projections for a second-place finish in the ACC. While finishing second in the conference is certainly within reach, most of the projected seeds seemed too high to me. Given the decline in the ACC this year and the impact […]
RPI Update – 5
State stopped the RPI slide yesterday with a big road victory at Clemson. Since the RPI now gives more credit for a road victory, all road victories (especially conference ones) qualify as “big”. However, State’s graph shows that it is easier to move down than it is to move up once you are competing for […]
