Here are the season stats after the South Alabama win. Team Statistics Offense Points Per Game: 35.0 (ACC Rank: 6, Nat’l Rank: 42) High: 43 Low: 27 Rushing Yards: 122.0 (ACC Rank: 8, Nat’l Rank: 86) Passing Yards: 256.0 (6, 40) Total Offense: 378.0 (10, 77) Defense Points Per Game: 22.7 (ACC Rank: 7, Nat’l […]
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NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Wake Edition
Here are the season stats after the latest Wake Forest debacle. Team Statistics Offense Points Per Game: 35.0 (ACC Rank: 6, Nat’l Rank: 45) High: 43 Low: 27 (Disclaimer: Points may have been scored by offensive players, defensive players, special teams players, cheerleaders, dance team members, assistant coaches, the helmet cart and/or the wolf-dog mascot. […]
NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Liberty Edition
Season stats after the first game is basically just the box score, here are stats after the Liberty game. Team Statistics Offense Points Per Game: 43.0 (ACC Rank: 3, Nat’l Rank: 25) High: 43 Low: 43 Rushing Yards: 162.0 (ACC Rank: 7, Nat’l Rank: 51) Passing Yards: 156.0 (10, 87) Total Offense: 318.0 (10, 81) […]
NC State Football By The Numbers – Pre-Season Edition
Note: This entry originally ran on Wednesday but might have gotten lost in all of the work that hit the blog. It makes sense to move it to the top of the blog for Friday. In addition to the dozens of new items available for your review on the main blog, we hope that you […]
Directors’ Cup Final Standings – 2011
The final 2010-2011 Directors’ Cup standings are out for Debbie Yow’s first year as Athletic Director at NC State. Last Year – 2010 For comparison, let’s first take a quick look at NC State’s performance in last year’s standings. NC State finished 89th in the final 2009-2010 standings, which ranked last in the ACC and […]
Lorenzo’s Legacy Honored by TSN
I thought this was a nice touch by The Sporting News. College basketball history did not begin with the 1984-85 season, but college basketball as we know it did. That’s when the NCAA played its first 64-team tournament, the event that has come to define the game for many. Over the course of the summer, […]
Where Do ACC Basketball Coaches Come From?
Now that the recent NC State coaching search has concluded and more discussion of the decline of coaching in the Atlantic Coast Conference has continued, I wondered to myself — where did ACC basketball coaches come from? (Other than being delivered by the stork). There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth that State didn’t […]
BJD’s 2010-11 All-ACC Basketball Picks
Despite my (largely successful) startegy of avoiding Wolfpack games, I watched some other ACC games. Enough to bore you all with my personal picks for conference honors. Not bored enough? Here are last year’s selctions. Since my viewing hours declined, I “sanity checked” my gut feelings more than usual. I even accepted a handful of […]
NC State Football By The Numbers – Post Bowl Games Edition
Here are the final stats after the bowl win over West Virginia and Auburn’s national championship. Offense Points Per Game: 31.8 (ACC Rank: 3, Nat’l Rank: 32) High: 48 Low: 13 Rushing Yards: 123.3 (ACC Rank: 11, Nat’l Rank: 95) Passing Yards: 281.2 (1, 18) Total Offense: 404.5 (4, 39) Defense Points Per Game: 21.3 […]
ACC in the NBA Part 1: Overall Numbers & Talent Dropoff?
Does it seem to you like the talent level in ACC men’s basketball isn’t what it used to be? Didn’t it seem like every team in the early/mid 90s had at least one legitimate NBA player and now there might be a handful in the entire league? There are some reasons why I might think […]
