Tag Archive | "Basketball Recruiting"
Recruiting practices take spotlight
Just last week SFN highlighted the difference between local recruiting budgets in this well-received entry. Almost simultaneously, the University of Tennessee’s football program came under scrutiny for the use of its Hostess Program to ‘lure’ recruits to the University. We started talking about the news in real time in this thread on our message boards. [...]
Continue reading...Recruiting Rolling; Lowe Adds 2012 Prospect (Updated 2:10pm)
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Ryan Harrow Signs National Letter of Intent (report from Sammy’s)
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Today at Sammy’s Tap and Grill in Raleigh, national top 25 recruit Ryan Harrow signed his National Letter of Intent to play basketball at NC State. It was a packed house with standing room only on an otherwise dreary day here in Raleigh. On hand for the occasion were Ryan’s parents, his cousins, [...]
Continue reading...Lorenzo Brown posterizes two defenders
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
NC State basketball commitment Lorenzo Brown re-confirmed his commitment to the Wolfpack last week and followed up the commitment by posting a triple double in a scrimmage against Hargrave. Brown scored 26 points on 11 of 16 shooting while grabbing12 rebounds and distributing 11 assists. You can see about a minute and a [...]
Continue reading...Katz: “NC State Working Back To Good Times”
Friday, October 16, 2009
Sometimes, it’s said, it is hard to see the forest for the trees. That might be the case for NC State’s fans where its hoops program is concerned, at least in the eyes of ESPN college hoops scribe Andy Katz. According to him, the Wolfpack is working their way back to respectability, albeit with a [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack adds another Top 75 power forward
Friday, October 9, 2009
Pack Pride is reporting that NC State has landed a verbal commitment from 6-foot-8 power forward, Luke Cothron. (Link) Cothron selected the Wolfpack over Tennessee, Alabama, and UCONN among others. He is rated a four-star prospect and the No. 13 power forward in the country by Scout.com. Cothron is generally regarded as a top [...]
Continue reading...ACCSports.com interviews Alpha Wolf & other Thursday links
Thursday, August 20, 2009
A couple of quick links to start today (only two more weeks!!!): For a week at least, Joe Ovies and Jim Young have decided to take the ACCSports.com Podcast Presented By FanDemon.com in a different direction. This week, they invite in the ACC’s bloggerati, or they embark on an ACC blogapalooza tour – take your pick. First Joe [...]
Continue reading...Friday Afternoon Discussion Topics
Friday, July 17, 2009
It has been slow recently, but there were a few interesting articles/topics to highlight this afternoon. The first deals with an athletic director “think tank” that for some reason doesn’t include our own Lee Fowler. The topic of this year’s meeting in Durham, NC was athletic budgets in the recession: DeFilippo said it’s difficult for an [...]
Continue reading...NC State Basketball in the News
Friday, June 19, 2009
Apparently there was a press conference yesterday, here is some coverage from WRAL: - Lowe looking to put his own stamp on the program: This offseason, coaches like Tom Izzo and Tubby Smith told Lowe this was his season to put his own stamp on the Pack program. “No question about it,” said Lowe, who has yet to [...]
Continue reading...1974 NC State – ACC’s All-Time Best Hoops Squad (and more glory years items)
Wednesday, June 3, 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...Report: John Wall to Kentucky [Update 10:10am]
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Thank God the circus is over. Slam magazine is reporting that John Wall will sign a letter of intent to play basketball for John Calipari at the University of Kentucky. Link to ACCNow Considered the best point guard prospect in the country, Wall went to three different high schools in five years in the Triangle. He exploded onto [...]
Continue reading...Deshawn Painter: Florida’s loss becomes NC State’s gain
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
8pm Update: BREAKING NEWS! – The Wolfpacker beat Pack Pride by about 15 minutes on this one with their report that Deshawn Painter has chosen to play basketball at NC State. SFN heard last week that NC State was ‘expecting’ to land Painter, but you never count your chickens before they hatch. We [...]
Continue reading...John Wall Cited With Breaking and Entering (while hanging with Reggie Jackson!) [Updated 11:50am]
Monday, May 4, 2009
From WRAL: Prep basketball star John Wall, one of the nation’s top uncommitted prospects, was cited with breaking and entering. Authorities said Wall, 18, was charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering in connection with an April 27 break-in at a home at 3924 Laurel Glen Drive in Raleigh. An officer saw Wall leaving from the rear [...]
Continue reading...Pack Signs Aussie Center
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
I have been waiting for a news article on Jordan Vandenberg to link to, but it doesn’t seem forthcoming. So, here’s a link to The Wolfpacker, with very little information. My take is that Vandenberg is a 7-foot center project. However, that is not a criticism. He’s not a bad fallback option when [...]
Continue reading...University Asks Student To Take Down Facebook Group “John Wall PLEASE Come to State”
Friday, April 10, 2009
NC State’s Director of Compliance asked a student Thursday to shutter his ‘John Wall to State’ group on Facebook. Michelle Lee, the Interim AD for Compliance, feared that the appeal violated NCAA recruiting rule 13.02.13: From the front page of today’s News & Observer: Thursday morning, N.C. State asked Taylor Moseley, a freshman, to shut down “John [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack recruits dominate Georgia All-State Team
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Tip of the hat to Pack Pride for the following video of NC State commit, Ryan Harrow. Friends of mine in Georgia told me at the end of the season that Ryan Harrow was the best player in the State of Georgia not named Derrick Favors this past season. Georgia’s All-State Basketball team has been [...]
Continue reading...RTC: Seth Curry could save Lowe’s job?
Thursday, March 26, 2009
We’ve been really humming here at SFN the last few weeks as there is an awful lot of NC State Basketball news out there for a team that failed to make the NCAA Tournament. (We hope that you are passing the word to all of your friends that they need to be visiting us more [...]
Continue reading...Giglio Previews 2009-10 ACC (Updated 3/25)
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
On the heels of this fantastic and comprehensive entry, we get more great work looking to next season from J.P. Giglio at the N&O’s ACCNow. I wouldn’t even know how to begin breaking down the rosters, but he does a great job projecting early departures and new player rotations. Kudos to him for [...]
Continue reading...Day of roster changes for Wolfpack BBall (3/24 Update @ 12pm)
Monday, March 23, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. – NC State head men’s basketball coach Sidney Lowe has announced that redshirt juniors Brandon Costner and Trevor Ferguson will forego their final year of eligibility, and not return to the Wolfpack in 2009-10. Joe Giglio at ACCNow has a more on the roster changes at this link. He also discusses the Wolfpack’s new [...]
Continue reading...CJ Leslie Officially Re-Opens Recruitment
Sunday, March 15, 2009
As most regular readers know, SFN has hinted at this development since January, but now that Dave Telep is bringing it into the public domain (note – this is a premium article, so we won’t post any content), we can be more explicit. CJ Leslie has re-opened his commitment, and is no longer an NC [...]
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Monday, December 14, 2009
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