I will be honest here – I am so inured to the culture of corruption, and Monty Python’s Black Knight caliber of willful and idiotic denial…I didn’t think anything UNC scandal related could shock me anymore. Then I read this, and you should as well: Prepare to be disgusted. Horrific doesn’t even begin to describe [...]
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2013 ACC/B1G Challenge Pairings
According to Pat Forde, State will host Northwestern in the 2013 ACC/B1G Challenge. @YahooForde: Day 1 of Big Ten/ACC Challenge: IU at Cuse, Michigan at Duke, ND at Iowa, FSU at Minnesota, Penn State at Pitt, Illinois at Georgia Tech. Day 2: N. Carolina at Michigan State, Maryland at Ohio State, Miami at Nebraska, Wisconsin [...]
Ralston Turner Hungry to Contribute
Former LSU guard Ralston Turner is among the new faces which Wolfpack fans will be getting used to, and hopefully seeing good things from, in the ’13-’14 basketball season. More about him, as well as how he dealt with sitting out the ’12-’13 season from Bret Strelow of the Fayetteville Observer here… RALEIGH – Ralston [...]
So You’re Saying There’s A Chance?
A few weeks ago, it is reputed that many NCSU Basketball fans were seeing pieces of sky falling. A seeming mass exodus from Raleigh was about to happen as Rodney Purvis skipped town for Storrs (by way of twitter) and rumors of other defections were running rampant on a daily basis. Now that some time [...]
Pack adds post prospect
NC State’s basketball recruiting is not done. After apparently missing on 5th year transfer and former NC State player, Josh Davis, Coach Gottfried & Co. continue to seek ways to fill out the Wolfpack’s 2013-2014 roster. The quest formally took another step forward yesterday when Oak Hill Academy’s Lennard Freeman committed to the Wolfpack. Freeman [...]
Entitlement problem with high school basketball players
This is a great article from Dave Telep. I have a feeling Gott is facing some of these issues. When you recruit the McD AAs you have to be very good at managing egos. A few points Telep made. I asked the staffers at Elite 24 who’d been part of the game for the past [...]
’13-’14 ACC Basketball Opponents Announced
The ACC league office has released the conference opponents for next season’s 18 game unbalanced basketball schedule, the first with Syracuse, Pitt and Notre Dame. The Pack’s “primary partners” continue to be Wake and Carolina. The full slate of conference games for ’13-’14 shakes down as follows… Home/Away – Wake, Carolina, Miami, Pitt Home only [...]
Scott Wood Sure Had a Lot of Jerseys
Scott Wood tweeted an interesting picture this week that chronicled all of the different jerseys he has worn in his career at NC State. The evolution of State’s jerseys since I’ve been apart of the Pack! twitter.com/ScottWood15/st… — Scott Wood (@ScottWood15) April 9, 2013 Scott Wood’s jerseys while at NC State
A New “Mixtape” of Incoming Freshman Kyle Washington Is On Youtube
The more I see of Kyle Washington on film, the more I am impressed with him as a player — he’s got a nice mid-range jumper, power around the rim, and he can flush a dunk with ease. That’s against prep competition, of course, which is a long way from competing against ACC competition, but [...]
Comparison of Players: Lost, Gained, & Potentials
I thought I’d take a look at who we’re losing and who we’ve gained (or potentially gain) and compare their tempo free stats. Yes I know the level of competition isn’t the same but I wanted to see how efficient they were against the competition they did play against and then compare them by position. [...]