“There were no three better basketball programs in the country at that time than the NC State program, North Carolina and Maryland.” * Terry Holland speaking of his first ACC Tournament at the University of Virginia Wow. ^That is flabbergasting. I learn something new every day! Imagine my surprise when I learned that it was […]
Tradition
Tudor’s Value circa 1983 Tidbit
This link from the N&O’s ACC Now Blog underscores my beliefs that Tudor is one of the #1 ACC Historian’s living today. Very neat stuff, IMHO: DAYTON, Ohio — George Mason coach Jim Larranaga was hit with perhaps the most famous technical foul in ACC history. It happened during the 1983 conference championship between N.C. […]
63 Greatest Games in NCAA Tournament History
Each March, the air becomes full of lists, “look backs” and NCAA nostalgia. Last year we highlighted that NC State dominates one writer’s All-Time Comeback List. This year, we add to the mix NC State’s presence in the 63 Greatest Tournament Games ever played with 3 of the top 34 games. One game that I […]
ACC Basketball Titles
Through 2006 BY TEAM Duke 16 North Carolina 15 N.C. State 10 Wake Forest 4 Georgia Tech 3 Maryland 3 Virginia 1 South Carolina 1 Clemson 0 Florida State 0 BY COACH Dean Smith, N. Carolina 13 Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 10 Vic Bubas, Duke 4 Everette Case, N.C. State 4 Norman Sloan, N.C. State 3 […]
Quotes: (Lack of) Intensity is Obvious (Again)
With 4:38 to go in the Carolina @ Duke game on Saturday night the television camera focused on a fired up Roy Williams who was sweating, clapping, and barking instructions to his team of youngsters that he has been molding and coaching all season. At that time, Dick Vitale was quoted as saying: Look at […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
All-Time Best: NC State vs Michigan
ESPN’s Page 2 is running an interesting feature – “The Greatest College Hoops Tournament” where the supposed All-Time best of 32 different schools are matched in a fantasy hoops match-ups. Unfortunately for us, the #10 Michigan Wolverines is predicted to wax #23 NC State in both predictions. The Blue and Gold give the partisan crowd […]
