Through the last day of January, it had been a season that was particularly forgettable. At the halfway point of that 1996-97 season – back when there was still a true halfway point – we were 0-8 in the conference, which in all fairness wasn’t entirely unexpected. We had played strikingly close games against two […]
SFN Stuff
No ESPN2? No State-Duke
There is are some ACC Tournament games on the horizon; and State-Duke is one of the marquee match-ups. N.C. State will be at full strength but it hasn’t been very good since the first 20 minutes of the Carolina game on Feb. 21 (Oh, come on, you’re not seriously going to bring up the Wake […]
Why Not Some Football?
Even though it is ACC Tournament week, we thought that we shouldn’t lose sight of the football program in light of a nice piece in the Richmond Times Dispatch this weekend. This article focuses on Tom O’Brien and NC State football. O’Brien sat down for an interview in which he marveled at the passion and […]
ACC Awards – SFN’s Take
An exciting, highly competitive 2006-07 ACC regular season is over. We wanted to get our thoughts on record prior to seeing the “official” media results. The following are my personal votes, and do not reflect the consensus view of SFN. I do have some data from other SFN bloggers, which I will also present. Coach […]
The Real ACC SOS – State’s The Toughest
Since the ACC plays an unbalanced conference schedule, it should be obvious that some teams will play a harder conference schedule than others. Last year, we developed an analysis technique to which Atlantic Coast Conference squads played the toughest and the easiest conference schedules. This year, both Coach K and the N&O have already chimed […]
SFN: Hansbrough vs Henderson
This topic was stealing center stage…so, we wanted to extricate it from the State-Duke entry that should be focused on…well…State and Duke! With 14 seconds to go in today’s Duke/Carolina game – and with the game firmly in the hands of the Tarheels who had a 12 point lead – Duke’s Gerald Henderson connected with […]
Pack Women to Battle Tarheels for Title
NC State’s women continued their inspiring play on Saturday by knocking off previously unbeaten Duke in the semi-finals of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. (Link to N&O article) The Pack continues to play with emotion that no opponent has been able to match. Coach Yow’s week began with treatments for breast cancer. It could end […]
ESPN: State’s ’83 Run
It’s always nice to highlight articles focused on NC State’s tradition. Pat Forde of ESPN pulls a great one out that is focused on the 1983 run to the National Championship. (Link) Don’t be misled by the title of the piece and the first part of the article – it is about the entire 1983 […]
Howland: Getting Players
We’ve got scores and scores of old partial entreis, and quotes, and tidbits saved in our drafts section that have become dated. But, I think that there is some definite value in blogging a lot of these things so that a record of them exists. Today, I just wanted to share a quote from UCLA […]
Atsur: Lowe is The Soul
“He is the soul of this team and not seeing him on the bench, especially in a big game like this, affected us.” February 21, 2007 NC State senior point guard, Engin Atsur
