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NC State advances to NIT

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), [...]

Breaking Down State’s NIT Chances

*************************************************** N. Texas beat Troy last night sending Troy to the NIT by winning the regular season. That leaves 28 NIT bids left. More later…. *************************************************** By winning 3 of our final 4 regular season games, Sidney Lowe put NC State back on the NIT bubble after a horrific middle stretch of conference play. When [...]

2010 Spring Football Organizational Chart

NC State takes down Boston College on Senior Day, 66-54

When Dennis Horner hit the RBC Center hardwood with 18:13 left in Saturday’s game with Boston College, he got up with blood streaming down the right side of his face. Head coach Sidney Lowe said he wasn’t sure if the senior forward would return. Return he did. All it took was a few stitches and some [...]

This is too good not to share…. Please give to UNC!

Even though we’re the only two wins they’ve had of late… this is comedic gold. Cheers to the mastermind behind this thing!

UNC’s Davis already signed with an agent?

Maybe we can talk about something not related to NC State? DraftExpress.com currently has Ed Davis as a lottery pick in the 2010 draft. More specifically, the site thinks that he will be the fifth player taken overall. As I said earlier, Davis is going to miss some time due to a broken wrist, [...]

ACC UPDATE

. . The ACC teams are about half-way through the conference season so it seems like a good time to update where the teams are with respect to making the NCAAT. Note that none of the “numbers” presented in this entry include the effect of Sunday’s game…but the outcome of UNC at UMD won’t have [...]

March Madness goes even madder

For those not keeping up with daily sports rumor news, the NCAA is reportedly considering the expansion of the tournament to 96 teams as early as 2010-2011. This rumor has picked up steam throughout the day today and now seems to be at a flash point. The first outlet to report the possible expansion of the [...]

Please welcome Chancellor Woodson!

The UNC Board of Governors made it public today that the new Chancellor at NC State will be former Purdue Provost and administrator Dr. William “Randy” Woodson. Please look here for a small statement from Chancellor Woodson from this morning’s BOG meeting. “I think the most important thing going forward is to get to know [...]

Mid-Season ACC Review

As we reach the mid-point of the regular season and move into conference play, I thought it would be interesting to take a little time and look at what has been accomplished thus far in the season. So here is a summary of State’s season to date: RPI Rank – 96 OOC SOS Rank [...]

It’s (Not) In The Eyes…

NC State recently approved a new logo design by alumnus Jim Cox, a 1966 graduate.  His “Eyes of the Wolf” logo was given its blessing by the university to be sold with its trademarks, even though it will not replace the school’s official mascot, the venerable Tuffy the Wolf.  According to a recent article in [...]

GSK Tournament News

Probably the most interesting thing that happened was off the court the during the press conference with Word of God’s head coach. Erasto Hatchett, also Ryan Harrow’s brother-in-law, criticized the attitude of his players and the culture that has been at Word of God in previous years during a five minute opening “statement”. There [...]

Changes coming to SFN

Wanted to give you the heads up that as we turn the corner into 2010 we will be turning the corner with a few changes and improvements around here. Looking forward to 2010! I’ve been traveling for the holidays and business the last couple of days…so, please remember to check our message forums for real [...]

Urban Meyer to step down amid report he had heart attack during season (Sunday Noon)

Please share updates as you find them. You can also follow some of the developments by clicking here. As usual, we will also follow news and insight from across the “Tweetesphere” that you can follow from our Twitter page.   Sunday, 11am Update Meyer will hold a press conference around 4:30pm this afternoon. The Gainesville Sun [...]

ESPN Insider: Is Butch Davis on Notre Dame’s list? (Updated 4:45pm)

We are taking the entire quote from ESPN Insider Brian Hamilton of the Chicago Tribune first included UNC coach Butch Davis on his list of possible successors to Charlie Weis eight days ago, and Davis is still on the Trib’s updated list today — as one of the “favorites,” no less, behind Brian Kelly, Bob Stoops [...]

Football and Fishing

This entry from SFN’s forums is exactly what Jeff had in mind when the forums were started here. I am moving it here to make sure that everyone gets to see it. Many thanks to basspacker for this: Doing a re-broadcast via YouTube of an episode fishing with Clemson Asst Football Coach [...]

Wolfpack deliver something of pride!! Scraps back to win Glenn Wilkes

Any time NC State can beat Jeff Lebo it can’t help but feel just a little better than any other win!! You REALLY have to give Coach Lowe and the Wolfpack a lot of credit for coming from behind to beat Auburn, 60-58, when Tracy Smith rebounded and put back a Julius Mays miss from the [...]

The Relevancy of Irrelevancy – Is Lack Of Athletic Success Limiting The University?

Some of the comments on the recent Monday Morning entry got me to thinking about the possible effects of our lack of athletic success on the university as a whole. I have to believe that athletics is a big component of the marketing and identity of a university (and you can make a fair [...]

Fowler, Sendek, Amato and the GSR (Updated @ 1:15pm)

NC State is currently tied for the worst record in the Atlantic Coast Conference football season as the program heads towards its longest consecutive streak of non-winning seasons since the 1950s. The Wolfpack has been picked to finish 12th out of 12 teams from almost every imaginable source for the upcoming basketball season continuing [...]

Recruiting Rolling; Lowe Adds 2012 Prospect (Updated 2:10pm)

In a recent radio show, Sidney Lowe used the plural word “commits” when mentioning players he couldn’t mention publicly. Some people thought it might have been a mistake and that there was only one NC State commitment he couldn’t mention – 2010 recruit Luke Cothron who didn’t sign a National Letter of Intent last [...]