You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
RPI and NCAA Seeds
Recently I have noticed a tendency to predict State’s seed in the NCAA tournament based on projections for a second-place finish in the ACC. While finishing second in the conference is certainly within reach, most of the projected seeds seemed too high to me. Given the decline in the ACC this year and the impact [...]
RPI Update – 5
State stopped the RPI slide yesterday with a big road victory at Clemson. Since the RPI now gives more credit for a road victory, all road victories (especially conference ones) qualify as “big”. However, State’s graph shows that it is easier to move down than it is to move up once you are competing for [...]
State Shows Moxy vs Tigers
In 2004, N.C. State lost at Clemson while ranked #15 in the country. Today, State entered LittleJohn with an indentical record and found a way to pull away in the second overtime to win at Clemson, 94-85. The Pack has now won 8 of its last 9 games against Clemson, and 4 of the last [...]
Interactive: State OOC in Sendek Era
In light of Carolina’s out of conference basketball success this season….I thought that I would open up the forum for your thoughts on the topic of NC State’s out of conference success over the last decade. Let’s try to compile a list of NC State’s Ten Best Out of Conference Basketball victories of the Herb [...]
Tarheels Tear up Zona
It was ALL Carolina today as the Heels did the ACC proud and domintated an Arizona team that came into the day rated #15 in the RPI and #35 in the Sagarin Computer. Although Arizona is not a Top 10 team this season, the Wildcats easily carry big time cache as one of the Top [...]
Bilas Concurs: ACC not as Strong as Usual
“The ACC has not performed as well this year as they have performed traditionally.” Jay Bilas on ESPN’s College Basketball Gameday, further emphasizing my exact point that has been argued here and on Pack Pride multiple times this year. It is really not that big of a deal. But, it is a relevant point that [...]
Saturday Stat
From ESPN’s Saturday morning Sportscenter: Home Team Winning Percentage in Conference Games 73.5% Big Ten 61.1% ACC 58.3% Big East 56.3% SEC 53.1% Big 12 52.4% PAC-10
ESPN: ‘Every Game Counts’
“Hey, a Joe Lunardi warning. We are just six weeks away from college basketball’s “Selection Sunday”. …Every game counts…flat out play….defending your home court down the stretch is key…” ESPN Morning Sportscenter
RPI Graph Update-4
Wednesday night was disappointing on many fronts, not the least of which is the RPI calcs. With the new formula, home losses hurt much more than road losses and it shows in State’s drop down frightfully close to bubble territory: State’s RPI through 1/26 As predicted, GW fell out of the top-50 (to #55) giving [...]