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Coaching Carousel Begins in Earnest – Lutz out at Charlotte
Wow. Judy Rose doesn’t play around. Just a day after a case could be made that UNC-Chapel Hill’s political prowess stole an NIT bid from the Charlotte 49ers, Rose moved to fire the 49ers all-time winningest coach after failing to land in postseason play for the second consecutive season. (Link to article and conversation) The [...]
Continue reading...NC State advances to NIT
Sunday, March 14, 2010
In what is a logical progression on the road to next year’s NCAA Tournament, the NC State Wolfpack hold a 6th seed will play at 3rd seeded South Florida at 8pm Tuesday night on ESPNU. Link to TampaOnline article: The Bulls (20-12) will seek their first postseason win in 15 years against the Wolfpack (19-15), [...]
Continue reading...Sunday College Basketball Stuff
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Thought we would open this entry for folks to interact if you weren’t interesting in some of the topics being discussed on our message boards. Yesterday was a tough for one for WolfpackNation. If you were looking to cut through the clutter of the 300+ comments in our game entry, then I think [...]
Continue reading...CHN: NC State strongly in NIT
Saturday, March 13, 2010
I genuinely believe that projecting the NIT field is much more difficult than projecting the NCAA Tournament field because of a lack of visibility of criteria and fans’ historical lack of familiarity of the process – that has changed multiple times in recent years. The website, NIT-ology, has become a central spot to visit for lots [...]
Continue reading...Looking to Saturday Through The Lens of 2007
Saturday, March 13, 2010
NC State’s strong play and run to the ACC semi-finals has people asking if this team can exceed the run achieved by Sidney Lowe’s first Woflpack team in 2007. (Link) Can this N.C. State team go a step further than its 2007 edition and actually win four ACC tournament games and a berth in the [...]
Continue reading...Lee’s Last Shot at an ACCeptable Achievement?
Friday, March 12, 2010
Since the beginning of the 1992-1993 athletics season, NC State University is the only full-time BCS affiliated institution that has failed to win single conference championship in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball or baseball. Today marks the start of the 57th Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament, and perhaps the last of almost 57 attempts for a [...]
Continue reading...Must Listen: Taylor Zarzour begins new show with a bang! [Updated at 10:30am]
Thursday, March 11, 2010
We’re sorry that it took us a couple of days to get this posted to the website…but, the comments and perspectives espoused in the following audio by local sports radio host, Taylor Zarzour are timeless. This is the very first segment of Zarzour’s brand new show, “Sportsdrive with Taylor Zarzour” heard on 620 The [...]
Continue reading...ACC Tournament Tickets- A Buyer’s Market
Monday, March 8, 2010
Here is something you don not see everyday. Complete books of ACC Tournament tickets going for fifty cents on the dollar. You can see the ‘Pack (and Heels) play for $13 on Thursday night. Do you tink it is the economy, ACC expansion, lack of decent ACC teams?
Continue reading...On March 8, 1968…
Monday, March 8, 2010
On March 8, 1968… …NC State defeated the Duke Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semi-finals by a 12-10 score in one of the more unusual games in Tournament history. The Wolfpack was primarily responsible for slowing the pace and scored only one basket in the first half, trailing Duke 4-2 at halftime. NC [...]
Continue reading...On March 7, 1970…
Sunday, March 7, 2010
On March 7, 1970… Unranked NC State defeated Frank McGuire’s 3rd-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks in double overtime by a score of 42-39 to win Atlantic Coast Conference Championship in the Charlotte Coliseum. South Carolina had achieved immortality by compiling an undefeated conference record of 14-0 in the regular season. The loss kept the Gamecocks [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Women Advance To ACC Finals
Friday, March 5, 2010
BREAKING UPDATE: NC State’s Lady Wolfpack defeated Boston College 63-57 to advance to the conference tournament finals against Duke. Trailing 29-23 at half, the Wolfpack put together a 15-0 second half run to rally back into the game, and then relied on hard-nosed defense and the deadeye shooting of Nikitta Gartrell in order to close out the [...]
Continue reading...To rush or not to rush?
Friday, March 5, 2010
If you tune in to much college basketball during any given season, you’re bound to see it. Thousands (or hundreds, depending on the conference) of 18-22 year old college students running on to the court to celebrate their teams victory over a team they presumably shouldn’t have beat. The immortal storming of the court. It happened [...]
Continue reading...Perspective from a ‘younger’ Wolfpacker
Thursday, March 4, 2010
There is no way around it, you have to teach ‘em young. Real young in this case. That video brings to mind some other classics from younger Wolfpack fans. Anyone remember Locke? And again…
Continue reading...An Interview with Lee_Folwer
Monday, March 1, 2010
StateFans Nation is certainly no friend of Twitter sensation, Lee_Folwer. So, it was no surprise to us that he was elusive to our many requests for an interview. Although he eventually relented, he refused to meet us in person, but initially offered to do an interview via email for $1,000; before we could even [...]
Continue reading...A little look ahead to 2010 Football
Friday, February 26, 2010
We’ve had some nice entries and conversations on the blog and the message boards with this week-long stretch between Wolfpack Basketball games. So, why not spend a few minutes on some football items? Looking Back, Looking Ahead We are heading into ’spring practice time’ and ‘The Wolfpacker’ released a lot of good information on the spring [...]
Continue reading...2009 NC State Chancellor’s Report
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Nice set-up with its own website. Rankings * 3rd in Best Overall Public University Value among public universities (U.S. News & World Report, 2009) * 5th among colleges of veterinary medicine (U.S. News & World Report, 2006) * 6th best value among the nation’s public [...]
Continue reading...Misplaced Praise? Did SFN make a big mistake?
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Yesterday’s entry highlighting the Wolfpack Women’s big win in Chapel Hill over the weekend reminded me of a recent conversation that I wanted to share with the community to see if any of our community members had any insight to share. It started last October when I wrote this entry actually complimenting and praising Lee Fowler [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Women Takedown Tarheels
Monday, February 22, 2010
The happiness that NC State sports generated this weekend was so surprising that it took a little bit for it all to sink in! In addition to the Wolfpack’s big win over Wake Forest in the RBC on Saturday, NC State’s Baseball team set a record for runs in a series with a three game sweep [...]
Continue reading...‘Ballin is a Habit’ needs to make ‘Accuracy a Habit’
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Link to Ballin is a Habit (before they go in and fix a crucial mistake that completely changes the premise of their lead-in). Dear random blogger, fan, &/or media member — How about doing yourself and your credibility a service and have some clue of reality and fact before deciding to implicitly or explicitly draw a [...]
Continue reading...NCAAT: Where teams come from does matter
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
This will be the 13th of the last 18 basketball seasons that NC State fans will turn thoughts regarding the NCAA Tournament towards other teams that we can root both for and against. Personally, I am conference/NCAAT/RPI/etc junkie. So, I thought this was a pretty good read to help set college basketball’s current landscape [...]
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Monday, March 15, 2010
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