This entry is based on the statistics contained in this link. In my life and career, I have always believed that flexibility, diversity of skills, and the ability to adapt quickly to changing situations and environments are as key to success as any other skills. So, when the data and fact set that I am […]
NCS ACCT Historical Seeds
Herb’s GOLDEN Opportunity!
In addition to Coach Herb Sendek’s unacceptable record against half-decent teams in his tenure at NC State, the #1 complaint that most fans have FINALLY been logging against Herb Zendeck is his horrendous record against NC State’s historically chief rivals – UNC-CH, Duke, and Wake Forest. The overall record compared to NC State historical numbers […]
On the Record: ACC Tournament
I guess with the NEW ACC and Tournament format, today’s full slate of games represents a “first round” and Friday’s sessions will now be referred to as “Quarterfinals” &/or “2nd round”. (I think “Quarterfinals” will be most appropriate to avoid confusion with rounds from historical tournament results). So…with the Tournament underway…I thought that we could […]
ACC Basketball Titles
Through 2006 BY TEAM Duke 16 North Carolina 15 N.C. State 10 Wake Forest 4 Georgia Tech 3 Maryland 3 Virginia 1 South Carolina 1 Clemson 0 Florida State 0 BY COACH Dean Smith, N. Carolina 13 Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 10 Vic Bubas, Duke 4 Everette Case, N.C. State 4 Norman Sloan, N.C. State 3 […]
Is Pressure Off or On?
NC State doesn’t open play in the ACC Tournament until tomorrow. But, that hasn’t deterred many in the local media from on Herb Sendek and the NC State Basketball program. In addition to these interesting comments, a few more items have hit the radar the last couple of days. John DeLong, one of the writers […]
Compiled Rankings
Well, this will be the next-to-last update on the combined rankings from Massey’s site. After the seedings come out, I hope to do one more and finally conclude whether there is any value in piling everyone’s guesses, votes, and calculations together…and then drawing conclusions from the biggest piles. As usual, here is the frequency graph […]
Quotes: (Lack of) Intensity is Obvious (Again)
With 4:38 to go in the Carolina @ Duke game on Saturday night the television camera focused on a fired up Roy Williams who was sweating, clapping, and barking instructions to his team of youngsters that he has been molding and coaching all season. At that time, Dick Vitale was quoted as saying: Look at […]
Regression to the Mean
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 a power like […]
2004-2005: State vs. Carolina
Last athletics season, UNC-Chapel Hill bested Duke University in the two institutions’ annual all-sports battle — the “Carlyle Cup”. The Carlyle Cup is a multi-sport competition between Carolina and Duke where the two schools compete in 23 sports and divide 26 total points. NC State does not have a similarly structured, formal competition with any […]
