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 [...]
State beats BC, 82-64
State played a complete game tonight to beat an outmatched Boston College 82-64. We (finally) played with passion and a sense of urgency, and executed well on both offense and defense. We mauled BC on the boards 38-24 and once again used good defense to set up transition points. Purvis had 21 and Wood had [...]
How many coaching stints will end today in Raleigh?
Boston College Head Coach, Frank Spaziani will almost certainly be fired after his BC Eagles play the NC State Wolfpack this afternoon in Carter-Finley Stadium. BC’s win total has steadily declined since Spaziani replaced Jeff Jagodzinski in 2009 – sinking to 2-9 for this season before our game today. Link But the season’s many [...]
State/BC Game Thread
With the league officials (no problem to the Atlantic Coast Cabal leadership, apparently – see the thread below) already making a statement that it will be 5-on-8 the whole way…the Pack will take the court shortly. Good thing NC State can and should handily dispatch the Eagles under such dire circumstances. That will be a [...]
State 44, BC 17
Big win and an impressive response after the letdown last week. State is now 5-1 (2-1) and still controls its own destiny in the division. Unlike last week, State took advantage of an early 10-0 lead and never let up, executing a solid gameplan that exploited BC’s focus on the run and they played a [...]
Boston College Open Game Thread
My apologies, I promised to put up the open thread, then forgot. I had to be up at 7 to shuttle kids around, so I’m uber-scatterbrained. In any event, I was going to say that a loss would effectively end NC State’s season. Fortunately, the beatdown BC has so richly deserved since Tom O’Brien left [...]
The ACC’s best combined coaching 1-2 punch
September 9th, 9:15 pm: This entry originally posted earlier in the week, but got buried in the UNC scandal coverage. We’re going to bring it back to the top of the blog since we are getting so much traffic from various ACC blogs today. Please don’t miss out on the other big entries we’ve got [...]
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 [...]
State Soccer Stuns in Semis \ Falls in Championship Game
Sunday Update The run is over and the drought continues as the Wolfpack soccer team was shut out by the Virginia Cavaliers, 1-0, in today’s ACC Championship game. State’s soccer team last appeared in the Championship game and won a title in the 1990 season. A third of the Wolfpack’s team this season – that [...]
Boston College 52 NC State 20
Photo courtesy of News & Observer/Ethan Hyman. Link to N&O Photo Gallery. We are just going to turn the The Live Blog into the post-game entry for two reasons: (1) I can’t emotionally deal with putting together a post game entry and (2) BJD’s comments in the live blog and the comments from the community [...]