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Revisiting Last February’s Analysis
We will come back to this once the 2008-09 season is completely over. But I think it’s a good time to look back at this entry from last February, after a particularly brutal loss to Boston College. Many of our current commenters posted thoughts on that thread. Now that a little over [...]
Continue reading...Want to See State-Wake Play Tonight? You Better Go To The RBC
11. February 2009
While I am perfectly aware of the state of NC State basketball, I have to admit that I am quite surprised that a Big Four hoops matchup is not being televised in North Carolina. That’s right, no TV coverage for tonight’s Wake Forest - NC State game, unless you count sitting in front of your [...]
Continue reading...Tysiac - Pack Gets Ready for Canada
30. August 2008
With so many dark clouds looming on the football front, it would be nice to have a good basketball season to look forward to. Sadly, that’s not the case for us long-suffering Wolfpackers. But we can look forward anyway, as Ken Tysiac does this morning: Courtney Fells, the easygoing senior who recently moved [...]
Continue reading...Big Ben Speaks
15. August 2008
Ben McCauley reinforces much of what SFN has said about last season, in a surprisingly candid interview with GoPack.com. There are several notable passages, but we’ll start with: I have been here in Raleigh all summer, getting my body right. I have lost 10 to 12 pounds. Last year, I started the season a little [...]
Continue reading...Hickson turning heads early
15. July 2008
J.J. Hickson got off to a quick start last night in his first summer league game: LAS VEGAS –Cleveland Cavaliers assistant John Kuester was on a roll Monday, thinking up new ways to praise rookie J.J. Hickson. “We’re talking about an N.C. State guy, and I’m still saying nice things,” former Tar Heel Kuester joked. “He’s that [...]
Continue reading...Rivals: Can Costner Get his Game Back?
6. July 2008
NC State is asking a lot of questions related to basketball these days. Will Farnold Degand be ready for practice in October? (Link) Will Ryan Harrow continue his ascent up the recruiting rankings and have the ability to immediately impact NC State’s program? (Link) Who is it that will be fired from NC State’s basketball program around August [...]
Continue reading...BBall: 2008 One-and-Doners and more
2. July 2008
An awesome analysis of 2008’s One-And-Doners can be seen by clicking here to one of the best college basketball blogs in the country. I can’t copy and paste their comments, but they have some interesting things to say about NC State and how JJ Hickson was definitely ‘not worth it’. It really is an [...]
Continue reading...Hickson to Cleveland at #19
27. June 2008
Sid was right - JJ went in the 11-20 window. Here’s Chad Ford’s analysis: I’m surprised they passed on local hero Kosta Koufos of Ohio State. But I do like Hickson, who’s a sleeper. He’s strong and athletic and he can score in multiple ways. He was 12-for-12 from the field in his first college game. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Post-Lotto ESPN Mock Draft - Hickson at #25 to Rockets
20. May 2008
Here’s your linkage. Just in case you were harboring any miniscule hopes for Hickson’s return (which SFN certainly never encouraged) - you can let them go now.
Continue reading...Writing on the wall for JJ; Look to Big Ced for example (May 7th Update)
7. May 2008
May 1, 2008 The writing may be the wall for JJ Hickson. As NC State fans people who genuinely want to see JJ Hickson maximize his earnings and succeed for years to come; we can only hope that the young man is mature enough to ‘read the wall’ objectively ans execute the kind of decision-making-skills needed [...]
Continue reading...ACC Basketball News: NBA’s view of Hickson, Taylor King to Villanova, and Miami picks up PG from Villanova
14. April 2008
There are many State fans who have issues with Dave Glenn, however there isn’t any member of the media who has his resources and access in covering ACC sports. With several ACC players considering declaring for the NBA draft, he gathered some opinions from NBA officials on Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and [...]
Continue reading...More “Coach Fowler” Wisdom
11. April 2008
Fowler’s talking to Tim Peeler on gopack.com, so you knew that some unintended hilarity would ensue. Although there are actually some good points in the article (SFN heartily welcomes the promised changes in the basketball office), we can’t resist commenting on this nugget: “Regarding basketball, when I was an assistant coach at the University of Memphis, [...]
Continue reading...Larry Davis to Transfer from Seton Hall
9. April 2008
It’s not a big deal, but it was worth noting that it was announced yesterday that Larry Davis will transfer from Seton Hall. Davis played in all 61 Seton Hall games over the last two seasons and averaged 6.6 points and 3.4 rebounds per game for his career. The guard’s top performance came in a 94-85 [...]
Continue reading...The Larry Brown Final Four
5. April 2008
“This is a nightmare for Roy Williams” — Billy Packer, 9:31 remaining in the first half with the score Kansas 33 UNC 10 “This game…is OVER” — Billy Packer, 7:31 remaining in the first half with the score Kansas 38 UNC 12 It would take a blind person less than a nanosecond to recognize the enormous difference [...]
Continue reading...Davidson Basks in Tournament Success
5. April 2008
This is the new reality for Davidson College in the post-tournament world: Orders for commemorative T-shirts from China, Australia and Italy. A 262 percent increase in Web site traffic. Worries there won’t be enough freshman housing next year Congratulations to the entire Davidson College community. This article provides detail on some of the impacts of Davidson’s NCAA Tournament success. If [...]
Continue reading...UCLA Farks Overexposed Hopsbrough
3. April 2008
Courtesy of The Onion The Final Four is almost here. Which means a lot of things…and this year it means that the world will have the ‘pleasure’ of watching the most amazing college basketball player in history! With Rick Morrissey leading the charge in this fantastic article, we FINALLY have some other folks in the media [...]
Continue reading...Hook Em!
30. March 2008
It is Rick Barnes vs John Calipari. A match-up of two premier coaches that NC State could have hired multiple times since 1995. A match-up designed to highligh Lee Fowler’s incompetence as the two primary coaches on which Fowler should have been able close the deal two years ago match-up for the right to head [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack defeat Tarheels on the diamond
30. March 2008
We had in depth comments in yesterday’s entry…so, we needed to stay on top of baseball. State comes from behind in the diamond to beat Carolina in something! Wolfpack 8 Tarheels 6 The Wolfpack, which improved to 15-9 overall and 5-6 in the ACC, carried a 2-2 tie into the bottom of the sixth inning, only [...]
Continue reading...Saturday Bytes - Tarheels defeat Wolfpack (sound familiar?) OR State’s/Davidson irony (Updated 2pm)
29. March 2008
……crunch….. Carolina’s third ranked baseball team beat the Wolfpack 5-2 yesterday (I thought we had some new authors who were excited about covering baseball on SFN? hello? anyone out there?). The Tar heels are 21-4 overall and 8-2 in the ACC. After a one-hit loss to Marshall, the Wolfpack are tracking just perfectly to an average [...]
Continue reading...Friday Basketball Bytes
28. March 2008
=======> Congratulations to Sean Miller and Xavier! In just 4 years he has already taken Xavier to a place in the NCAA Tournament where his former boss at NC State couldn’t achieve in a decade. It’s kind of hard to blame the strength of Duke and Carolina for our failure to succeed in anything outside [...]
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3. March 2009
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