The NCAA is changing the rules for the criteria used to select at-large teams for the NCAA Tournament. Until now, the Committee has placed an emphasis on how a team finished the year moreso than how it started — which effectively dimished the value of the bulk of the out-of-conference slates for most teams. From […]
NCAA Tournament
CBS’ Billy Packer done with Final Four
CBS color analyst Billy Packer’s streak of Final Fours is over after 34 years, The Miami Herald reported Monday. We have had a lot of entries regarding Packer in the past. You can click here for one of our more recent and more comprehensive. Link to N&O’s ACCNow entry: Nantz says fans owe thanks to […]
ACC Eyes Expanding BBall Schedule; Guess who is interviewed?
The ACC’s total of 19 NCAA tournament wins from 2006 to ’08 is an all-time low for a three-year period since 1979-81, which was before the tournament expanded to 64 teams. The Big East, Pac-10 and Big Ten all play 18 conference games and got higher percentages of their members into the NCAA tournament in […]
RPI-ology
Earlier this year I made the mistake of allowing myself to get sucked into a ‘hypothetical’ conversation about NC State’s chances of making the NCAA Tournament. At the time our Wolfpack was tracking in the 30s and 40s of the RPI and I was trying to use facts and statistics to de-bunk ridiculous statements and […]
NC State vs NCAA Tournament Teams
The NCAA Tournament is now in full effect, so why not spend a moment focusing on NC State’s performance against NCAA Tournament teams? We’ve done a little research and couldn’t believe what we learned. Scratch that. We totally believed what we learned. What we learned was exactly the kind of perspective and statistic that we […]
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 […]
Sendek, Boeheim, Other Coaches Want To Expand The NCAA Tournament
INDIANAPOLIS – College basketball coaches such as Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim and N.C. State’s Herb Sendek have been talking for years about expanding the NCAA tournament.
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 […]
“Five Straight NCAA Tournaments”
“Five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances” You hear it all the time. This^ factoid has become this year’s primary and almost exclusive battle-cry of the Herb Sendek Sunshine Squad. It is the foreward written for the 2006 edition of the HSSS Handbook. It is everywhere. You cannot hide from it. And, it is quite an accomplishment…isn’t […]
Finishing Strong
Among the many things that I see on NC State message boards after ugly “preseason” losses are statements like: – State often lays a few eggs early in the year. – State starts slow but always finishes the year strong. So I decided to see if these statements are grounded in reality or wishful thinking: […]
