Tag Archive | "NC State Basketball"
Coping With Another Hole Title (Updated 9am Tuesday)
“Our fans are comparing ourselves to Duke and North Carolina. Every program in the country doesn’t do well when you’re compared with those two on a day-to-day basis. I understand that our fans want to be able to compete with them; we all do. But you can be real good on a daily basis and [...]
Continue reading...35th Anniversary of Greatest College Game Ever Played
Monday, March 9, 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...Revisiting Last February’s Analysis
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
We will come back to this once the 2008-09 season is completely over. But I think it’s a good time to look back at this entry from last February, after a particularly brutal loss to Boston College. Many of our current commenters posted thoughts on that thread. Now that a little over [...]
Continue reading...SMD: The Gap Grows Greater
Tuesday, February 3, 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...Fowler Speaks, ‘Feels good about program.’
Thursday, January 15, 2009
99.9 FM Interview with Lee Fowler His first comment about basketball is that had Horner made the three-pointer he took with the Wolfpack up four with about 6:20 left, the game might have been different. Maybe. But then Fowler says it was back and forth the rest of the game. Hmmm. I seem to remember a [...]
Continue reading...Updated “State of the Program” Thoughts
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
OK, dark side – you win. Last night’s disastrous effort pushed me over the edge. Taking a cue from Sidney Lowe’s motivational techniques and substitution patterns, I will not order my thoughts logically and just throw crap against the wall to see what sticks: - Sidney Lowe has clearly lost this team, for the [...]
Continue reading...Stepping into basketball season by stepping into the past (Updated 5pm)
Monday, December 22, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Laugh. Think. Cry.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
V himself had said that team wasn’t very good. After a 6-8 conference record, State was seeded sixth for the 1987 ACC Tournament in Landover. But somehow – not unlike a few years earlier on an even bigger stage – Jim Valvano’s Cardiac Pack had survived and advanced to the title game, where they would [...]
Continue reading...WRAL: Small town Raleigh marveled at 74 Wolfpack
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
A great retrospective done by Dane Huffman at WRAL.com. Click here. Then came in 1974 – and Raleigh became the epicenter of a story that would change college basketball. Duke was amazing in 1992, and North Carolina was phenomenal in ’82. But State was unique, in its talent and its time. The fading films and black [...]
Continue reading...DT Lifted ACC Sky High
Monday, March 10, 2008
What else did you think that NC State fans had to discuss the week of the 2008 ACC Tournament? The early 1970s, of course! All sarcasm aside, the Charlotte Observer’s Ron Green ran a great piece today calling David Thompson “The Best Ever” in the best basketball league in America. Green’s piece can be read by [...]
Continue reading...Tough loss, on dealing with one — Valvano philosophy
Friday, February 1, 2008
If you’re a passionate fan as I am, who believes as Vince Lombardi does that “Show me a ‘good loser’ and I’ll show you a loser,” it’s good to keep this Valvano advice in mind: Jimmy V says he’ll allow his players 24 hours to feel sorry for themselves and curse the basketball gods. Then, he [...]
Continue reading...Forbes: The Most Valuable College Basketball Teams (Updated 4pm)
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Note: Introductory Message for our new visitors – SFN Celebrates New Year with NC State Magazine Feature Forbes has come out with a great piece that effectively ranks college basktball programs by “value” that is primarily derived from operating financials from last year. You need to realize that a major component of ‘value’ is the income [...]
Continue reading...Tudor: Bigger & Better Things Ahead
Friday, March 9, 2007
We will keep our game entry untouched and wanted to highlight Caulton Tudor’s piece in its own entry this morning. The Wolfpack, 16-14 overall, has done more than enough to turn Sidney Lowe’s first season as men’s basketball coach into a ringing success. Although former coach Herb Sendek’s teams won 105 games from 2002 through last season [...]
Continue reading...Green, Jr: NC State 1974 = The Best
Monday, February 12, 2007
SFN highlighted the public voting on the topic of the best ACC National Basketball Champions in this entry earlier this morning. But, we thought that it was important to blog the piece from today’s newspaper that prompted the poll. Anytime that a member of the Green family ranks NC State ahead of Carolina in anything you [...]
Continue reading...Tudor Nails a Piece of the Success Blueprint
Thursday, May 11, 2006
In addition to this piece, another of SFN’s more respected local writers penned some greath thoughts regarding Sidney Lowe today that merits some attention and discussion. The News & Observer’s Caulton Tudor compared the big gamble on Coach Lowe to the role of underdog that the 1983 National Champion Wolfpack. Tudor goes on to say: my hunch [...]
Continue reading...Chronicling the Criticism
Monday, May 8, 2006
We need your help! As you are well aware, a significant number of national and local media members have been openly critical of Sidney Lowe’s hire as Head Basketball Coach at NC State. Although this criticism is very relevant, we have chosen not to dwell and focus on it. But, we don’t want to ignore it [...]
Continue reading...Fowler & Hire Inevitably Linked
Sunday, April 23, 2006
Caulton Tudor weighed-in with more of his astute commentary related to the Wolfpack’s search for a basketball coach this moring. Link here. Additionally, I shared some comments that dovetail with the focus of Tudor’s comments earlier today. Selected excerpts from Tudor’s, “Hire will reflect on Fowler” are included below: Since landing the job in September [...]
Continue reading...63 Greatest Games in NCAA Tournament History
Friday, March 17, 2006
Each March, the air becomes full of lists, “look backs” and NCAA nostalgia. Last year we highlighted that NC State dominates one writer’s All-Time Comeback List. This year, we add to the mix NC State’s presence in the 63 Greatest Tournament Games ever played with 3 of the top 34 games. One game [...]
Continue reading...Regression to the Mean
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
The more I think about the last five years of the Sendek era, the more a pattern seems to develop. No matter how the season starts, you can expect things to ultimately level out at a “B minus” overall. Decent regular season? You get the respectable NCAA run (including heartbreaking loss to [...]
Continue reading...Wolfpack Dominates Comeback List
Tuesday, August 2, 2005
I’ve got tons of old entries that I began during the past 9 months but never posted. As we work our way up to the start of football season, I will work to just “dump” them onto the site for future use. We will start with this article from the Las Vegas Sun that [...]
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Monday, April 6, 2009
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