We are more than half way through the basketball season and I was reflecting today on how solid the year has been. I also was thinking about how “odd” some of the season felt and started contemplating the games on our schedule and found the following particularly interesting: Of the 18 games that NC State […]
RPI Graph Update-3
Greetings from the Left Coast! I’ve updated the graph of State’s RPI ranking through the WF game. I’ve changed the format and appearance and hope you like the changes. State’s RPI Ranking As of this moment, State is 2-3 against the RPI Top-50. GW has snuck back in the Top-50 at #43. However, with their […]
STATEistically Notables
Saturday’s victory over Wake moves Herb Sendek a little closer to a .500 record against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. For his career at State, Sendek is + 9-13 overall vs the Demon Deacons + 6-13 vs Wake Forest in the regular season. + 5-6 vs Skip Prosser + 4-6 at home vs Wake Forest […]
Sunday Sightings
Lots of great basketball all over the country yesterday. I thought that we would just highlight some random thoughts as the sports world turns its focus on NFL Football later today. ===> Pack Pulls Away BJD did a super job on the live blog yesterday during the Wake game. It was so good that the […]
No Schaeffer for State
Brent Schaeffer announced for Ole Miss on Friday evening. As we discussed last week – Schaeffer’s presence would have been very welcome in Raleigh for lots of reasons, but his lack of presence does not kill our program by any means. Without Schaeffer, State will move on and most people will apply their focus to […]
Live Blogging – Wake Forest/NC State
4:20pm: Wow, are we ever flat early. Fortunately, Wake isn’t any good, and thus only up two. 4:22: Repeat after me – don’t let Justin Gray beat you. Nobody else is capable of doing so (yes, that includes Eric Williams). And is it just me, or does it seem like weeks since Ilian Evtimov scored […]
Schaeffer Key to Re-establishing Momentum
Pack Pride is reporting that highly-sought Junior College Quarterback, Brent Schaeffer is set to make his decision of where he will play Division One football on Friday evening at 6pm. Rated a five-star prospect by Scout.com, Schaeffer has narrowed his list to three schools and will announce at 6:00 EST. NC State, Ole Miss, and […]
Hoos Top Heels
Dave Leitao 1 Roy Williams 0 Just two weeks ago we were talking about new Virginia coach, Dave Leitao. So it doesn’t surprise me that after wins over Virginia Tech and Carolina, Virginia is above .500 in ACC play for the first time since the 2002-03 season. (Obviously, Leitao inherited a lot at Virginia). The […]
Current ACC Standings
…TEAM………… ACC….. TOT…. RPI (1) Duke……………… 5-0…..17-0…..1 (2) Miami…………….. 3-1….11-6….76 (3) NC State……….. 3-2….14-3….23 (4) Virginia…………….3-2….9-6….81 (5) Florida State……2-2….11-3….71 (6) Maryland………….2-2….12-4….25 (7) UNC-CH……………2-2….10-4….41 (8) Georgia Tech……2-2….9-6…110 (9) Clemson……………2-3….13-5….57 (10) Boston Col……..1-3….13-4….30 (11) Wake Forest……1-3….12-5….56 (12) Virginia Tech……0-4….10-7….81
Open Thread – Duke Post-Game
I don’t have much blogging energy right now, but please share your thoughts in comments. In short, I thought it was a magnificent game plan to stick it to Duke inside. We damned near pulled it off. Play like that the rest of the way, and we don’t lose again until POSSIBLY the ACC finals. […]