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I wish Rodon the best and hope he wins a bundle of games.
But I simply HATE the White Sox, for one big reason I won’t go into because I’ll be called all kinds of names on here.
Why is everyone so upset? Are we the only team losing players early?
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Duke has convinced me that talent not only trumps experience, but almost every time. State is going to be good next season, and I firmly believe the Wolfpack is going to have a shot at the national top ten as well as an elusive ACC Championship.
If they can do really well next season, they will only get better because it will help recruiting, BIG TIME. Maybe we’ll finally be in a position to sell ourselves as a team on the rise, without the coach having to beg.
After all these long and difficult seasons, I think I’m finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, and for once it isn’t an oncoming train with Duke or UNC pained on the side of it.
I’m looking forward to holding season tickets again next year!
With Kentucky and Coach Cal out of the picture, this one will be much easier to watch. Duke is my first team after State and I’m pulling for them, but Wisconsin is a great story this season and this may be the Badgers’ one shining moment (as if they haven’t already had several).
Should be a great game, but if the 3s don’t fall for Duke, it could be ugly.
The media drools over these “fabulous freshmen” of late, but ask Michigan how that worked out back in the early 90s when they ran into two determined senior-laden teams who would not be pushed around. And that same scenario played out last Saturday night for UK.
Every big and little thing, to me, points to Wisconsin winning tonight. I can’t believe this team would get this close and let it get away. Like the 1991 Duke team, this time it’s going to be Wisconsin’s time.
And it might not even be close.
Geno Auriemma is THE pompous ass of all college basketball coaches. As bad as I dislike Calipari and Boeheim, they aren’t even close to Geno in the arrogance department.
I don’t even know where to start here, but let’s note first and foremost that if there’s a more boring sport to watch than women’s college basketball, other than the NBA, I haven’t seen it. At least the women could dress more like their volleyball counterparts do; this might attract more attention than their hideous present uniforms do.
The shot clock, to me anyway, has ruined college basketball, especially for the women. It’s no longer a game of coaching and skill but rather a game of sheer talent. Women’s basketball, with its 30-second shot clock, assures only the most talented teams are rewarded (with all 4 #1 seeds in this years women’s FF). Who in hell cares to watch women’s college ball anymore? UConn is at a level above everyone else due to cornering all the talent, and a handful of teams are at the next level, with the rest of the field light years behind. The truth is, most women college b-ball players simply can’t perform at a high level given the speed with which they’re required to do it in today’s game. And the lower you go in the divisions, the worse it gets.
If the NCAA really cares about it’s women’s games, they should quit trying to go head-to-head with the men’s NCAAT each year. The women need to get their post-season going several weeks ahead of the men so that somebody will actually watch. The last thing I care to see is a women’s game after 4 straight days of the men’s NCAAT. Just like my high school days when both the girls and boys teams played on Tuesday and Friday nights, there was a good reason they put the women’s games first.
It seems the men’s college game is headed for an even shorter shot clock, which will make it more like the NBA. Since the men got only 3 of the 4 #1 seeds to Indy this time, maybe the NCAA geniuses will figure that a 24-second shot clock will insure that only the gorillas will rule the jungles if they can just speed things up.
The more the college game moves closer to the NBA, the worse it gets.
The no-call involving Barber WAS a bad one. The replays showed that his foot did NOT slip or slide- he was knocked on his butt but no call. These are two programs, like Duke, who have big-name coaches and play a rough, physical brand of defense, and they usually get away with murder. State, at times, does play good D and I saw a lot of good stretches of it last night compared to the season as a whole, but we still lack consistency in that area. That’s what it’s going to take to get us to the next level.
No offense to PackFanInLA, but I simply cannot pull for a Chicago-area school that considers itself an ACC basketball school but not an ACC football school, plus sees itself as an elite university (down their nose at the rest of us). I would pull for Louisville in a ND-Cards game, except that Rick Patino is one ego I cannot stomach.
Yes, last night was an opportunity that won’t come along often. Who knows what’ll happen next season?
Me? I’m going digging for old coins with my metal detector while these games go on this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon. And even collecting stamps would be better than watching the likes of Calipari, Patino, Duke and the CBS suits who praise themselves and bestow all their knowledge on us yokels.
Time for the Orioles and Nationals.
As far as I’m concerned, the only ACC team now left is Duke. I will never accept Notre Dame and Louisville as true ACC schools, and since John Swofford is responsible for their presence in the ACC, I won’t pull for any of the former Big East teams, EVER (except for Virginia Tech).
I’m not as disappointed with State’s performance as many on here seem to be, but I swear, the tv announcers sounded to me like they were on the Louisville network instead of CBS. You can bet the CBS Bigshots are pulling for MSU in the next one, and it seemed to me that Lundquist was their megaphone tonight.
It’s beginning to again look like most of the post-shot clock era NCAATs, where Cinderella is long gone while the gorillas rule, with the biggest one usually pounding the others. Sure looks like that’s where we’re headed on the road to April.
After finishing off a bunch of Tigers and Wildcats, the Wolfpack shouldn’t have any trouble at all with a bunch of ‘ole birds, should they?
I wouldn’t worry about UNC possibly getting to Houston. The Selection Committee royally screwed up by making Arizona a #2. I think U of A deserved at least the #3 overall seed, if not the #2. This resulted in not only Arizona and Wisconsin being in the same region, but put them on the same side of the bracket with Kentucky.
No diss intended for Villanova, but no way should they have been the #2 overall seed, and I would have put Duke ahead of them for the #4.
But it sure worked out great for us, and UNC is in the “region of death” if you ask me.
On Wisconsin!
Not complaining about the game being shown on TBS, but it seems to me that CBS dissed us to show a game featuring a #12 seed against Gonzaga. There are still a good number of people who don’t have cable tv who will miss the State-Louisville game. CBS generally steers clear of games that interfere with their affiliates’ “sacred” time slot of 5pm-7pm, and I don’t understand why they’d choose a game that will start and run through that time period of 4 to 7pm on the West Coast. Had the West Coast game been on TBS, that wouldn’t be an issue. UCLA may be a brand name, but THIS Bruin team SUCKS in my opinion.
Seems like we just can’t get any respect, even when we’re on national tv.
There is no way anyone with any degree of logic can make a good coach out of Herb Sendek, even on paper.
How many times did Sendek teams fail to deliver when they should have? The 15-point lead against Duke in the ACCT finals with 9 minutes to go comes to mind, or the classic meltdown vs Vanderbilt. Then there’s the classic ASU meltdown vs USC in the Pac-10 title game a few years ago, when the Sun Devils were clearly the better team with James Hardin and Jeff Pendergraph, but blew it in the end. There just seemed to be something about seeing Herb on your bench that made good players go to pieces in the final minutes of a game that meant something.
I can’t stand UConn, but if they win big tomorrow night, I may flash a “told you so” grin when the Huskies blow out ASU.
This is one that I’d like to see stopped by a brawl involving fans, players and coaches from both teams.
If State and Wake were switched in the above scenario, I doubt many State fans would like it. With the ACC’s determination to make sure teams are forced to play each other regardless of rivalries and geography, any Big Four team that ended up as an odd-man-out would be screwed big-time. The current system might leave State and Carolina as out-of-division opponents twice a season, but it would take away our home-and-away setup from Wake like it already does with Duke, while the other 3 Big Four members would return to twice a season games vs each other.
As for seeds, I’m still not convinced that State will get higher than an 8 or 9 seed, and in fact could end up a 10 or even lower. Yes, they finished strong except for BC and Duke, but they SUCKED most of January and part of February. I hope I’m wrong here, but to me the Pack had way too many WTF losses this season to merit a seeding higher than a 10.
And had we been allowed to have played Duke TWICE this season as we had historically done until John Swofford came along, I seriously doubt we would have been ambushed by Duke in a 3rd meeting in the ACCT.
I’m one of those who’d like to see State abandon this GD conference and go it alone if need be, because this league has turned Blue and has clearly demonstrated that it doesn’t give a tinker’s damn about State and Wake Forest. So much for founding members.
If you divide the ACC into three basketball divisions, I think everyone would agree that the ACC North should be BC, Syracuse, Pitt, ND and Louisville. They would also agree that division rivals should play each other twice each season.
The problem would be dividing up the rest of the ACC. If the league would allow two out-of-division primary playing partners, then you could split the Big Four yet maintain those rivalries twice a season; otherwise, I don’t think it makes financial or geographical sense, let alone common sense, to continue disallowing local rivals to play each other twice every season. That means NOT SPLITTING the Big Four into an odd-man-out setup.
If State, for instance, could play each of its four division basketball rivals twice, plus have two primary playing partners, that would comprise twelve games, with six more among the other 8 teams. To avoid not playing someone at all during the season, the two primary playing partners could be rotated out once every few years to make room for the other two teams, assuring the Wolfpack it would play everyone at least once each season.
A better solution to me would be to go to a 20-game league schedule, allowing those two extra league games without a team having to be rotated out. The fans I talk to, and there are many, WANT more conference games, yet the league coaches and apparently the ACC hierarchy continue to oppose them.
Television and the ACC have not been kind to the Wolfpack or Deacons. The ACC (and ESPN) killed the State-Maryland rivalry by making it the Duke-Maryland rivalry instead (and making the Devils and Terps primary playing partners), which to me never reached the intensity of the Pack vs Terps. Now, the prime expansion teams, Syracuse and Louisville, are being pushed by ESPN to play the Blues, with State and Wake being relegated to ESPNU or more likely the local tv network. ACC officials sure don’t seem to mind.
Splitting the ACC into separate football divisions has been disastrous for attendance and longstanding rivalries, especially in the Big Four. I want to see State play Duke and UVA every season, not once every decade. I don’t want to see State playing teams like South Alabama three times over a period when Duke doesn’t show up even once. I want to see Miami, Georgia Tech and especially Virginia Tech on our schedule more often rather than be forced to see Syracuse and Boston College EVERY season. And I want to see a 9th game added to the conference schedule, which would help achieve this as well as put the Big Four back on each other’s schedule every season.
Anyone who’s seen State’s OOC football schedule for next season plus our home league opponents can’t be very happy with this turkey. It’s a big part of why I’m not going to attend any more football games after being there for the past twenty seasons.
ACC Baseball teams play 40 or more games every season. So they get to play more league opponents, right? Uh-uh. State, despite having so many home games this spring, has not ONE home game vs Duke, Carolina or Wake. The ACC can take its league expansion and PC scheduling and shove ’em where the sun don’t shine!
With the score 41-17, two things are painfully clear to me: this State staff can’t coach defense worth a damn, and this State team can’t play defense worth a damn.
I’m happy to learn that win or lose Wednesday night, we’re IN. So I guess that what I should really be worrying about is Sunday night- whether or not we’ll end up in Kentucky’s bracket.
I think we’ve already got enough problems ending up in Duke’s bracket. I think State would be better off to face anyone else in the ACC except Duke right now.
The ACC will get two #1 seeds if Duke beats UVA on Saturday night; only one if either UVA or someone besides Duke wins the ACCT. Miami can still get in but needs at least 2 wins this week, maybe even 3.
But again, I’m happy that I won’t have to worry about Wednesday night.
Takes a load off my mind.We just beat Syracuse and could well crap the bed with Pittsburgh.
This has been a WTF team all season. I haven’t seen any evidence, except in the UNC game when we actually played 40 minutes of DEFENSE, that things will change much from here on out.
It’s not the Kentuckys that bother me nearly as much as the Woffords, the Boston Colleges, and the Wake Forests.
