For any of you younger set who just can’t grasp what you’ve been told regarding David Thompson and his influence on the game of basketball, the news that Michael Jordan has chosen Thompson to present him at his Hall of Fame induction should help bring you a long a bit. As usual, Caulton Tudor shows […]
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1974 NC State – ACC’s All-Time Best Hoops Squad (and more glory years items)
We ran across a couple of recent news items that take us back to a happier time… First, this article takes a pretty fascinating look some of the greatest recruiting classes in NCAA Basketball history by using John Calipari’s current recruiting class at Kentucky as a launching pad. Some interesting candidates are proposed in the […]
Why are NC State fans paranoid?
Gee…I wonder!? Great catch by the guys at 850TheBuzz! Will wonders ever cease? Ken Tysiac has more on ‘Bannergate 09’ linked here. There was company for N.C. State in its misery. Louisville’s 1980 title is listed, but its 1986 championship is not. UCLA won 11 titles, but only six are listed. 850’s picture is below. […]
WRAL: Small town Raleigh marveled at 74 Wolfpack
A great retrospective done by Dane Huffman at WRAL.com. Click here. Then came in 1974 – and Raleigh became the epicenter of a story that would change college basketball. Duke was amazing in 1992, and North Carolina was phenomenal in ’82. But State was unique, in its talent and its time. The fading films and […]
DT Lifted ACC Sky High
What else did you think that NC State fans had to discuss the week of the 2008 ACC Tournament? The early 1970s, of course! All sarcasm aside, the Charlotte Observer‘s Ron Green ran a great piece today calling David Thompson “The Best Ever” in the best basketball league in America. Green’s piece can be read […]
V and DT Transcended Rivalry
A nice find from a couple of weeks ago that we failed to link. Link For example, Sumner says, Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and former UNC coach Dean Smith aren’t the overall most popular figures in the Hall because some fans don’t like to acknowledge the accomplishments of their chief rival. But he says […]
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 […]
David Thompson Gives Team Postgame Talk
This article is just great to read! (Additionally, you will enjoy this related piece regarding DT.) Lowe, who starred on State’s 1983 NCAA champs, invited Thompson into the locker room after the game for a few words. “The other night, I talked to the guys about the tradition of our school,” Lowe said. “After the […]
Vote for DT
We don’t normally promote these kinds of online voting, but this one feels little more prominent and important. Please click here and vote for David Thompson. You don’t have to sign in. You don’t have to do anything. It is quick and painless. A recent entry of David Thompson can be found here. Added 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 […]
