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 [...]
Just Incase You Missed It: Officiating
There is a massive flurry of discussion on the boards and the blog against last night’s game against Duke. So ‘Pride, why are you writing yet another article about the game? Simple: because I found something that had been posted prior to last night’s game that was interesting. Ironically, it was sitting right under my [...]
NC State vs NCAA Tournament teams
Now that the season is over, and Duke has won the national championship for 2010, we can fully take stock of the Wolfpack basketball team and see how well they performed against NCAA Tournament teams. As many of us know, this year’s team was 7-7 against NCAA Tournament teams. How does that compare to past [...]
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 a year has [...]
Want to See State-Wake Play Tonight? You Better Go To The RBC
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 [...]
Tysiac – Pack Gets Ready for Canada
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 from shooting [...]
Big Ben Speaks
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 [...]
Hickson turning heads early
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. [...]
Rivals: Can Costner Get his Game Back?
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 [...]
BBall: 2008 One-and-Doners and more
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 interesting [...]