The Wolfpack is as deep as a kiddy pool. Yet as tired and depleted as they are, they have a quality that wasn’t there three long days ago when the tournament began. Around them there is calm, a sense that when the game turns tense, they won’t. A scrub will hit a huge shot. The […]
Tradition
ESPN’s Pat Forde on Lowe’s Miracle Run
If ever there was a “must read” article, this one is it. You can’t buy press this good. Something special is brewing in Raleigh, win or lose tomorrow afternoon. Sit back and feel the magic, and tell the kids your own stories about 1974, 1983, 1987, and every other moment of NC State’s proud basketball […]
4-2 vs The Big Four; Red Jacket goes 2-0-1 [UPDATED 11:20pm]
“Our fans are comparing ourselves to Duke and North Carolina…I understand that our fans want to be able to compete with them; we all do. But you can be real good on a daily basis and not be better than those two programs.” Lee Fowler NC State Athletics Director March, 2005 ESPN.com * Thanks to […]
A View from the Cheap Seats
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 […]
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 […]
Green, Jr: NC State 1974 = The Best
SFN highlighted the public voting on the topic of the best ACC National Basketball Champions in this entry earlier this morning. But, we thought that it was important to blog the piece from today’s newspaper that prompted the poll. Anytime that a member of the Green family ranks NC State ahead of Carolina in anything […]
Dave Sez: Best NCAA Tournament Coaches
Great work by Dave Sez regarding the Best NCAA Tournament coaches of all-time. (Link) We are going to link entry this under “Basketball Resources” on the right hand side of the blog in the event that you ever need to refer to it. If you haven’t/don’t surf our resources on the right side of the […]
SFN Garners #2
StateFansNation experienced quite a year of growth and popularity in 2006. Included in our growth was a significant amount of public recognition, most recently evidenced by our #2 finish in the ACC category in the College Football Bloggers Awards. Link to story State Fans Nation is one of the most vibrant, interactive communities on the […]
Get It Back
SFN Note: We wanted to thank ‘Spin Wolf’ for submitting this fantastic entry to our email at [email protected]. This entry perfectly crystallizes what Wolfpackers over the age of 35 who grew up in the area have been trying to convey to younger generations for years and the feeling that we all share about the future […]
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For too long, it was just one line on a 16-game Atlantic Coast Conference schedule. For too long, N.C. State tried to minimize the importance of its annual showdowns with North Carolina, trying too hard to detach itself from the fervent emotion of a rivalry that stretches back 95 years. For too long, with UNC […]
