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On March 8, 1968…
On March 8, 1968… …NC State defeated the Duke Blue Devils in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament semi-finals by a 12-10 score in one of the more unusual games in Tournament history. The Wolfpack was primarily responsible for slowing the pace and scored only one basket in the first half, trailing Duke 4-2 at halftime. NC [...]
Continue reading...On March 7, 1970…
7. March 2010
On March 7, 1970… Unranked NC State defeated Frank McGuire’s 3rd-ranked South Carolina Gamecocks in double overtime by a score of 42-39 to win Atlantic Coast Conference Championship in the Charlotte Coliseum. South Carolina had achieved immortality by compiling an undefeated conference record of 14-0 in the regular season. The loss kept the Gamecocks [...]
Continue reading...The Lunatic Fringe “Only Cares About Beating Carolina”
25. November 2009
The myth of State Fan only caring about beating UNC came back to life today in the News and Observer’s ACC Today blog, this time coming straight from an NC State fan’s mouth: Inside Carolina editor Ben Sherman said that since September, UNC fans’ attention on his independent Tar Heels-devoted site has turned to their own [...]
Continue reading...A Player’s Remembrance of Lou Holtz, Bo Rein And NC State Football
23. October 2009
This story was originally posted by Cowdog in our forums, but it is simply too good to not be promoted up to the main blog. It’s not often that fans get to hear the stories of the inside workings of their favorite team from the players themselves and in their own voice, but that’s exactly [...]
Continue reading...DT to present MJ at HOF
8. September 2009
For any of you younger set who just can’t grasp what you’ve been told regarding David Thompson and his influence on the game of basketball, the news that Michael Jordan has chosen Thompson to present him at his Hall of Fame induction should help bring you a long a bit. As usual, Caulton Tudor shows that [...]
Continue reading...N.C. State’s Tradition Coordinator – Who knew???
31. August 2009
After posting (erroneously – sorry and thanks!) about the Pep Rally that will be held at Harris Field on Wednesday night, I was contacted by the Director of Traditions for the Alumni Association Student Ambassador Program. Call me disconnected if I’m the only one without knowledge of this group, position and/or effort by the [...]
Continue reading...Coach Sheridan Returns to Raleigh
20. August 2009
Coach Sheridan was at practice the other day after visiting friend and Wolfpack family member David Horning who is dealing with some complicated medical issues. First and foremost, our best wishes and prayers go out to David Horning and his family. Back in 2007 O’Brien had Sheridan come speak to his first High [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part II, 2000-06
29. July 2009
This is Part II of a five-part series that is by no means intended to be authoritative. Rather, it’s nothing more than an incomplete, inconclusive, sometimes erroneous, while always biased retrospective of recent State football history. Part of this was based on nothing more than my attempt to answer the question so many [...]
Continue reading...Cheap Seats Football Retrospective: Part I, The 1990s
27. July 2009
Back in March of this year, any column I would’ve written could’ve only been titled “Why I should’ve gone to [insert SEC school here].” As I left Tobacco Road on Glenwood Avenue after watching yet another State basketball season mercifully end – like so many years before it – on the Thursday of the [...]
Continue reading...1974 NC State – ACC’s All-Time Best Hoops Squad (and more glory years items)
3. June 2009
We ran across a couple of recent news items that take us back to a happier time… First, this article takes a pretty fascinating look some of the greatest recruiting classes in NCAA Basketball history by using John Calipari’s current recruiting class at Kentucky as a launching pad. Some interesting candidates are proposed in the piece, [...]
Continue reading...Very Cool: New Mexico State Will Feature 2nd Engineering Battalion Logos On Their Helmets
24. April 2009
I am a firm believer that the men and women who serve their country in our armed forces don’t get enough of our respect. In my view, they don’t earn enough for the jobs they do, their benefits could be better and certain quarters take our freedoms that they preserve for granted and that folks [...]
Continue reading...Stat of the day
7. April 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Why are NC State fans paranoid?
3. April 2009
Gee…I wonder!? Great catch by the guys at 850TheBuzz! Will wonders ever cease? Ken Tysiac has more on ‘Bannergate 09′ linked here. There was company for N.C. State in its misery. Louisville’s 1980 title is listed, but its 1986 championship is not. UCLA won 11 titles, but only six are listed. 850’s picture is below. (If [...]
Continue reading...1989: ‘Worst Call in NCAA Tournament History’
29. March 2009
On the Sunday of the Elite Eight exactly TWENTY YEARS AGO — NC State should have been participating in the Wolfpack’s fourth Elite Eight of the previous seven years. I want some of you younger fans to step back and let that absorb for a moment. I want you to recognize the difference [...]
Continue reading...ACC Basketball Championships
18. March 2009
BY TEAM Duke – 17 North Carolina – 17 N.C. State – 10 Wake Forest – 4 Georgia Tech – 3 Maryland – 3 Virginia – 1 South Carolina – 1 Clemson – 0 Florida State – 0 Boston College – 0 Miami – 0 Virginia Tech – 0 Florida State – 0 BY COACH Dean Smith, N. Carolina – 13 Mike Krzyzewski, Duke – 11 Vic Bubas, Duke – 4 Everett Case, N.C. [...]
Continue reading...Alums and Fans Under 25 Have Never Seen Glory. Will They Live Long Enough To Ever See It?
13. March 2009
In the wake of yet another disappointing basketball season with yet another lackluster ACC Tournament one-and-done, I got to thinking about some of the current students, younger alumni and fans of NC State — and how much I feel sorry for them because they have rarely if ever gotten to feel the absolute joys that [...]
Continue reading...35th Anniversary of Greatest College Game Ever Played
9. March 2009
It is undoubtedly fitting that NC State and Maryland will battle in this year’s Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament since today is the 35th anniversary of the unforgettable 1974 ACC Championship between the Wolfpack and the Terrapins in Greensboro Coliseum. Today’s Charlotte Observer contained an article focusing on Tommy Burleson written by Ron Green, Jr. It [...]
Continue reading...SMD: The Gap Grows Greater
3. February 2009
SFN: Long time readers may remember some of our old entries (from 2005-2006) that we named “Perpetually Disappearing Pie”. We won’t link them here since our most recent server transition removed the key graphs from the entries. Today’s entry is a special submission from one of our long time contributors, SMD, and brings with it [...]
Continue reading...Carolina Journal defends the Free Expression Tunnel
16. January 2009
The Free Expression Tunnel is a unique feature to NC State, but it has come under fire recently. A few jerks wrote some offensive racial comments in the tunnel after election night aimed at Barack Obama, but all the authorities brought in to investigate prevented them from being expelled and brought up on charges [...]
Continue reading...Stepping into basketball season by stepping into the past (Updated 5pm)
22. December 2008
Today is the day. Monday, December 22, 2008. Today is the day that we naturally step into elevated interest in the 2008-2009 basketball season. You can almost say that today is the day that we really kick off our attention to the season as the Wolfpack will host Top 25 ranked Marquette in the RBC Center. The Wolfpack [...]
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8. March 2010
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