Live Blogging from the Central Game

The Pack takes the court at 7 tonight against a second consecutive D-1 newbie, the North Carolina Central Eagles. Lowe’s squad continues to search the corners of the earth for an opponent crappy enough to provide a comfortable win. Sagarin has 1-18 NCCU at 329, 14 slots behind the mighty Blue Hose of Prebyterian College. I will be front-row, center court (but on the upper level), and God and blackberry willing, live blogging this glorious event. Don’t expect updates more frequently than the media time-outs.

Pregame – There is NOBODY here. A guy just flipped off the fan cam. This amused me, as I am very immature. I am not so crass as to bastardize the national anthem, though. That always pisses me off.

7:12 – Pack up 3, halfcourt O still sucks. Central starts a white guy, FWIW.

7:19 – Up to 12-3 Pack. The people love Simon Harris, and I concur. He busts his ass.

7:22 – Central cuts lead to 7. We are playing great D, but still giving up loads of offensive boards.

7:29 – Another offensive board, followed by a 3. Lead down to 16-10.

7:31 – Grant has made 2 really awful passes to the low post. Each overshot Hickson by a good 3 feet.

7:35 – Simon tries for 3. Very bad idea. 18-12, Pack.

7:37 – Oh shit. Fells just collapsed in a heap holding his ankle/foot.

7:41 – Fells hobbled to locker room, with help. Putting no weight on right foot at all. Grant has 2 fouls, so Javi, Trevor, and Simon all playing together. This does not strike me as a lineup built to score. I shudder at the thought of this lineup in CH on Saturday.

7:45 – JJ is 6-6 from stripe. Has half our points.

Halftime – Javi closes the half with 3 points on 2 nice drives to the bucket. 27-18.

7:57 – Apparently Barry Manilow “Music and Passion” is coming to the ESA. I would rather be shot, I think.

8:10 – 2 Costner 3s key big spurt. 35-18, Pack. Eagles had 11 offensive boards in first half. Wow.

8:22 – Trevor keeps on shooting, and the people really want him to score. Their faith is not being rewarded. Pack leads easily if not artfully, 39-22.

8:26 – Central has a player who is 1-13 from the floor and 0-4 from the line.

8:29 – 1-14 now. 40-24, Pack. Can we hold them under 30?

8:31 – Troubling stat – Ben is scoreless.

8:41 – Ben breaks his cherry with old-fashioned 3 point play. Just under 4 to go and Pack up 45-26. Defense!

8:44 – Trevor scores! The people are pleased.

8:47 – Smith gets block and bucket. Central up to 29, damn it.

Your final score – NC State 54, NC Central 29. The defense holds!

About BJD95

1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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112 Responses to Live Blogging from the Central Game

  1. wolfonthehill 01/09/2008 at 8:12 PM #

    Why, oh why did anyone expect a respectable performance, much less a blowout, from the Pack tonight?

    We are, quite simply, a terrible basketball team right now. That could change, but there’s no evidence of it.

  2. Sweet jumper 01/09/2008 at 8:13 PM #

    Costner finslly got hot and we are finally extending a lead. It sounds like Javi is playing pretty well but NCCU does not translate to UNC!

  3. Dogbreath 01/09/2008 at 8:14 PM #

    I am to the point where I have as much passion for NC State athletics as the average Old Dominion graduate cares for the Monarchs.

    The Wolfpack has simply given me nothing holistically to get excited about for over 25 years.

    Just numb.

  4. redfred2 01/09/2008 at 8:16 PM #

    Any word on Fells? Radio says it’s a sprain maybe, I hope he is OK.

  5. Sweet jumper 01/09/2008 at 8:16 PM #

    Gary and Tony just said that Javi just visited the trainer at the end of the bench.

  6. Sweet jumper 01/09/2008 at 8:18 PM #

    Gary or Tony said at the half that Fells has a low ankle sprain–thankfully not the dreaded high ankle sprain.

  7. RAWFS 01/09/2008 at 8:25 PM #

    Apparently Barry Manilow “Music and Passion” is coming to the ESA. I would rather be shot, I think.

    That was laugh out loud funny, BJD. You spoke for a lot of us with that one-liner.

    And Sweet jumper, thanks for the update. Hopefully Courtney will be fine in time to face the Chapel Hillbillies.

  8. Sweet jumper 01/09/2008 at 8:27 PM #

    Radio guys say Fergie is a great shooter in practice but not in games. If he can’t make a shot in a game, what does he offer this team. He is 0-4 tonight.

  9. PAPacker 01/09/2008 at 8:29 PM #

    updated score

  10. PAPacker 01/09/2008 at 8:29 PM #

    why is the scoring so low again?

  11. 1.21 Jigawatts 01/09/2008 at 8:31 PM #

    Did I hear that correctly? Central has 16 Offensive Rebounds?!? What’s Offensive is the fact that State refuses to be aggressive on the boards.

  12. MrPlywood 01/09/2008 at 8:37 PM #

    Did I hear THIS right? State has 3 field goals in 12 minutes of second half play? Good lord…

  13. RAWFS 01/09/2008 at 8:38 PM #

    40-24 with 6:15 left, according to ESPN.com

  14. wesley 01/09/2008 at 8:40 PM #

    its about 6 minutes left in our game and UNX game with ashville… we have 40 points, they have 80…

  15. 1.21 Jigawatts 01/09/2008 at 8:43 PM #

    What’s bad isn’t that UNX has 80, it’s that UNCA has 70 against them. Who wants to bet we don’t even sniff 70 Saturday?

  16. redfred2 01/09/2008 at 8:44 PM #

    44 points in 36 minutes. WOW!!!

    I’m predicting that if we hold the heels to somewhere around 27 or 31 points for the entire ballgame, then we’ll probably have a pretty good chance to win the game in all likelihood. Don’t hold me to it though, I’m just guessing, carolina may not score anywhere close to that.

  17. MrPlywood 01/09/2008 at 8:47 PM #

    Woot! Fergie with a 3! The season is saved!

  18. jo2g5 01/09/2008 at 8:48 PM #

    State is 16 for 43 total fgs for the game and 4 for 20 from 3pt that’s very disturbing

    Rebounds NC State 39 NCCU 38 (16 offensive)

  19. Mr O 01/09/2008 at 8:48 PM #

    I left with five minutes to go in the first half. We are absolutely brutal to watch. Please Sidney recruit some guys who can shoot the basketball.

  20. jo2g5 01/09/2008 at 8:48 PM #

    A blistering 37%

  21. jo2g5 01/09/2008 at 8:50 PM #

    NCCU is a big 12 for 58 or 21% man that has got to be tough to stomach live

  22. redfred2 01/09/2008 at 8:50 PM #

    Don’t forget NC Central is doing all of that rebounding against “the best frontcourt in the nation”. That’s a feather in their caps.

  23. 1.21 Jigawatts 01/09/2008 at 8:51 PM #

    But I thought HWSNBN left us with nothing but “interchangable” players who could shoot. Don’t tell me that isn’t true??

  24. jo2g5 01/09/2008 at 8:51 PM #

    I guess they need to start giving out free barf bags to the first 10,000 fans

  25. jo2g5 01/09/2008 at 8:53 PM #

    We took 21 three pointers out of 44 shots, make a lot of sense and made a grand total of 4. i havent shot a ball in 10 years and i could hit more that 4.

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