You have to hand it to UNC: those guys have unmitigated gall. Before their new chancellor has her first day on the job, and before lame-duck Chancellor Holden Thorp can announce whatever his “blue-ribbon” panel led by led by Hunter Rawlings, president of the Association of American Universities, has come up with, UNC athletic director [...]
Wag of the Tail, Tip of the Tooth
Hello Nation (StatefansNation, that is). As anyone who isn’t living under the proverbial rock knows by now, there is once again a Wolfpack on the hunt in the NCAA Tournament. When the Pack is hungry, prey would do well to stay out of the Pack’s path lest they become dinner. So with all due respect [...]
Video: Sweet 16 bound Wolfpack return to Raleigh
For even more NC State conversations, please don’t ignore SFN’s message forums (linked here) and our Twitter feed (linked here) We’ve even got a note about our spike in traffic tonight (linked here). When the SFN server crashes it’s like we’ve just lit the top light on the noise meter in Reynolds. You guys do [...]
Previewing The Hoyas
#11 NC State vs. #3 Georgetown Sunday March 18, 12:15pm – Columbus, OH CBS – Tim Brando, Mike Giminski All time series record: NC State leads 4-2 The Pack faces off against the Georgetown Hoyas in the round of 32, after dispatching the Aztecs of San Diego State. Georgetown advanced by handling the Bruins from [...]
Saturday Session Open Entry
You can click here for your viewing guide from CBS today. For some fun and relevant NCAA and NC State related items then please click here. If you haven’t noticed, SFN has been – and will continue to be – on fire with a high volume of new content as of late. With this said, [...]
Pack/Hoyas: Sunday 12:15
This is a brave, new, surreal world for the Wolfpack, who will play deeper into March than their Tobacco Road brethren over in Durham. State will face Georgetown Sunday at 12:15 (it will also be the only game on, too). We’re due a little revenge, too: some of you may remember that State lost to [...]
‘A sweet 16 without Rick Barnes is like basically every sweet 16′
Ahhh….some fun stuff for an open entry for tonight’s late session of NCAA Tournament games. If you are looking for A LOT of Wolfpack talk, then please spend some time on our message forums available by clicking here. The activity and conversation is very dynamic right now. FWIW, Georgetown has opened as a four point [...]
Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Pack wins!
When we hongry we eat. Pack beats Aztecs 79-65, advance to Round of 32, await winner of Georgetown/Belmont. WRAL: Getting into the NCAA tournament is the hard part for North Carolina State. Winning a first game? Not that difficult, apparently. Richard Howell doubled his average with 22 points, and 11th-seeded North Carolina State used its [...]
SDSU Game Day Thread
First NCAA in 6 years. I am excited to see what we do.
Historical Context: NC State Tournament Factoids
With today’s first NCAA tournament appearance in 5 years coming up at 12:40PM today, I wanted to take a quick look back on NC State’s appearances in the NCAA tournament through the years for some useless factoids. Since the 1950′s when the NCAA tournament expanded to 16 teams (it has been only 8 conference champions [...]