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100 Years of NC State Basketball by the Numbers: Sidney Lowe

12. February 2010

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As we celebrate 100 years of NC State basketball tradition, it can be interesting to take a look back at our heritage and make comparisons with the current program. Over the last century, there have been 18 head basketball coaches, 13 of which coached in either the Southern Conference or the ACC. Currently [...]

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ACC UPDATE

7. February 2010

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. . 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 [...]

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How to get out of a hole

25. January 2010

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. . . If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Will Rogers . . With the current state of the US educational system, how many of the scholarship BB players in the ACC do you suppose have ever heard of Will Rogers? In any event, Will certainly identified the first step in getting out of hole. [...]

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How Weak is the ACC?

19. January 2010

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There has been a lot of discussion (going back to last April) about how the ACC would be “down” this year. I even saw one comment this season proclaiming that this year was the weakest ACC in memory. So I thought it would be worth the time to put a little [...]

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Mid-Season ACC Review

7. January 2010

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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 [...]

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

20. November 2009

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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 [...]

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The State of State 2.0 – Men’s Basketball

10. November 2009

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The State of State 2.0 – Men’s Basketball

With the season officially getting underway this week, I thought I would share some historical stats on our men’s basketball program. Similar entires for football, women’s basketball and championships can be found here and here and here. Men’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 397-401 (.497) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 331-323 (.506) ACC Record Under Fowler: [...]

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The Unholy Trilogy and Other Groups of Distinction

28. October 2009

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The Unholy Trilogy and Other Groups of Distinction

On a blog entry on Buster Sports, author Dave Nathan has discovered what he believes to be the three worst college football and basketball teams from 2006 to 2009. There are three BCS schools that have had 3 straight losing seasons in football while also missing the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Of course, [...]

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Nine Years of Sellouts – What Have We Gotten In Return?

13. October 2009

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Nine Years of Sellouts – What Have We Gotten In Return?

This season is the 9th consecutive where football season tickets have sold out at Carter-Finley. Here is a recent entry about selling out season tickets. For this entry, I am going to focus only on home football games. Set aside the LTRs, gas, hotel and airfare for road trips, donations to the Wolfpack Club, [...]

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The kind of analysis that deserves front page billing

2. October 2009

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The kind of analysis that deserves front page billing

Our new forums (and even our new Twitter activity) have become fantastic places to share a higher volume of information and items from the internet that we can’t necessarily find the opportunity to share on the front page of the blog. But, this morning we ran across a few items that deserve front page [...]

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Wilson the Passer vs. Wilson the Runner

4. September 2009

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Wilson the Passer vs. Wilson the Runner

There’s been lots of chatter in the comments and in the forums about Wilson not looking to run. I don’t think that is the case, and the stats back that up. Wilson had 11 rushing attempts last night, compared to an average of 11.56 per game last year (in the 9 games where [...]

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The State of State 2.0 – Championships

31. August 2009

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The State of State 2.0 – Championships

The new school year is upon us and I still have some summaries of the 2008-2009 season to share, better late than never I suppose. This entry will take a look at conference and national titles for both the 2008-2009 school year, for the 9 year tenure of Lee Fowler as AD and for the [...]

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The State of State 2.0 – Women’s Basketball

21. July 2009

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The State of State 2.0 – Women’s Basketball

Women’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 284-168 (.628) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 216-102 (.679) ACC Record Under Fowler: 68-66 (.507) State’s all-time ACC winning percentage has dropped 5.1% since Lee Fowler has been AD. Our ACC winning percentage in the 9 years under Fowler is 17.2% worse than the preceeding 23 seasons and is statistically significant [...]

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2008 NC State Football Review

13. July 2009

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2008 NC State Football Review

  Much like our previous breakdown of the entire Atlantic Coast Conference, today we’ll take a look at the 2008 Wolfpack with a focus on trends and issues that are likely to carry over to the 2009 version. I actually starting planning this article during the 2007 season, when I was [...]

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Stat of the Day: Sagarin Strength of Schedule ratings (2000-2008)

10. July 2009

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2008 ACC Football Review

16. June 2009

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2008 ACC Football Review

  It should be really easy to project this fall’s college football results. All we have to do is: - Assess what went right/wrong in 2008. - Subtract contributions from “graduating” players. - Add in contributions that we will see from new players. - Subtract lost contributions due to injuries. That should leave us with [...]

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The State of State 2.0 – Football

8. June 2009

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The State of State 2.0 – Football

Last year I did a series of entries with summaries of ACC records and titles(Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5). This year I will be posting entries by sport and at the end of the school year I am planning on doing some overall summaries for the athletic department. [...]

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Stat of the day

7. April 2009

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This season marked the 35th anniversary of NC State’s 1974 National Basketball Championship (that, evidently, the NCAA forgot about). This link will take you to some recent related content about the topic. A friend of ours passed along the following observation that we thought we would share: I wonder what the RPI of the 1973-1974 team [...]

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Sunday Stats & Conversation, Izzo Style

5. April 2009

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And just so we’re clear, understand that I’m not trying to diminish Michigan State’s roster; it’s a fine roster. But I’m not sure how many future NBA players are on that roster, and I am sure it’s not a roster as good as Connecticut’s roster. But MSU’s roster just beat UConn’s roster of pros by [...]

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ACC Implosion Now Almost Complete

26. March 2009

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Only Ty Lawson’s toe (why won’t the announcers ever mention it?) and Tyler Hansbrough’s will stand in the way of complete conference humilation, after Villanova’s 77-54 curb stomping of Duke tonight. This game was not as close as the final score indicated. It was like the Magic Johnson-era Lakers against a 12-and-under team [...]

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