There are few players in the history of NC State athletics as storied as Tommy Burleson: the seven-footer from Newland was part of the legendary 1973-74 Wolfpack basketball team that won the national championship, he was part of the 1972 Olympic basketball team that was cheated out of a gold medal in Munich, and he […]
Tommy Burleson
ESPN’s 30 For 30 Shorts: Silver Reunion
In addition to the excellent 30 For 30 “Survive And Advance” about the 83 championship team, ESPN has also recently released a 13 minute short about the 1972 Olympic basketball team called “Silver Reunion”. NC State’s own Tommy Burleson was a member of that team that lost the gold medal game to the Soviet Union […]
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 […]
35th Anniversary of Greatest College Game Ever Played
It is undoubtedly fitting that NC State and Maryland will battle in this year’s Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament since today is the 35th anniversary of the unforgettable 1974 ACC Championship between the Wolfpack and the Terrapins in Greensboro Coliseum. Today’s Charlotte Observer contained an article focusing on Tommy Burleson written by Ron Green, Jr. […]
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 […]
Burleson Anniversary
We’re big fans of looking back at history and randomly identifying anniversaries and such. In that light, I got the following quick email from a friend that I thought was interesting and needed to blog — “I saw Tommy Burelson at the Marist game Friday (March 16th) and told my friend not to forget that […]
