NC State entered this year’s basketball game against Seton Hall IN RALEIGH ranked higher than the unranked Pirates and favored by 18 points. The Wolfpack became the first ranked opponent to lose to Seton Hall since the end of 2003-2004 season. NC State lost the home game by 18 points, meaning the Pack missed expectations […]
RPI Update
Well, that was ugly! A home loss drops State’s RPI ranking back nine places. In all likelihood, it will take winning straight through Saturday at the ACCT just to make up the ground lost in last night’s debacle. State’s record now stands at 0-4 vs the Top-25 but is still 4-4 against the Top-50 because […]
Worst Loss of the Sendek Era?
I think so. It was disgusting to watch this overachieving Carolina team come in and outwork us like that. They wanted each loose ball, each rebound 1000 times worse than we did. To his credit, Sendek didn’t try putting any lipstick on the pig, admitting that we were outcoached, outplayed, out-everything. And that pretty much […]
Compiled Rankings
I hadn’t planned on summarizing the compiled rankings this week because of the two high-profile games that State has. Obviously, the games this week will have a huge effect on both objective and subjective rankings. Plus I didn’t really expect two wins against FSU and VT to have much of an effect. However, when you […]
Evitmov’s Demotion
Prior to the start of his sophomore season, the popular Ilian Evtimov encountered a horrible knee injury that sidelined him for the entire season. At the time of Evtimov’s injury, the world famous NCSEC (NC State Excuse Club) immediately went into high gear and before you knew it was proclaimed (I think by Coach Sendek?) […]
Bubble Update
When I originally tried to divide up the bubble based on RPI rank, I was expecting to be able to watch someone in the ACC fight up through the bubble. Instead, what I’ve seen is : – Maryland trying to see how few games can be won and still stay on the bubble. – UVa, […]
DT vs Dr J: The Day the Dunk was Born
Last year, Street & Smith magazine attempted to rank the nation’s college basketball programs for all of history. If I remember correctly, NC State came in somewhere around 20th. (For some reason my memory is blurry on this and I feel relatively confident saying that we were somewhere between 17th and 22nd. Don’t ask me […]
RPI Update
One of the interesting things about graphing the RPI rank through the season is to see trends over time…but there are smaller details that also stand out. For instance, it took three wins to overcome the drop after the home loss to Seton Hall. It only took two wins to overcome the road loss to […]
Pack Escapes in Blackburg
My original title for this entry was going to be, “Taking Care of Business” and was designed to focus on how nice it was to exert complete control and beat the ACC’s last place team like we should. So much for that idea. State led by 22 points in the second half only to escape […]
Lavin: Personality of Team
“They’re (NC State’s team & players) temperment really is an extension of Coach Sendek’s temperment” Steve Lavin, ABC Television February 18, 2006