It feels like playing East Carolina in football. But, you can’t complain when you are a #10 seed. Pack Pride’s March Madness Webrun The game will tip-off at 12:15 ET on Friday and will played in Worcester, Massachusetts. Early start times are good for national television exposure since only games on the East coast are […]
ACC Refs Steal the Show (or Title)
I’m looking forward to seeing all of the statistical evidence that indicates that Duke (and Carolina) don’t receive preferential treatment in officiating. Unfortunately, all the statistics in the world can’t measure calls that aren’t made or just how bad calls that are made can be. Duke wasn’t able to connect on a single field goal […]
Perpetually Disappearing Pie
Updated: Sunday, March 13, 2005; Noon ET It was 18 years ago the ACC Tournament was last played in the Washington, DC area (Landover, Maryland to be exact). NC State won that tournament by completing a clean sweep of our Big Four Rivals – defeating Duke in overtime in the quarterfinals; Wake Forest in the […]
Lesson Learned? Let’s Hope So.
There is absolutely nothing to be ashamed of today. We played hard, played reasonably well, we just lost. In many ways, 2004-05 has been similar to 2002-03. We entered the ACC tourney without an NCAA bid, and earned one during tournament play. We also played a pivotal game against Duke – albeit in the semifinals […]
Ilian Evtimov is My Hero!!
NC State put together one of the top ten performances of the entire Herb Sendek era on Friday night to defeat #3 ranked Wake Forest (sans Chris Paul) in the Quarterfinal round of the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. In conjunction with many of the events of the last two days related to other teams sitting […]
Vitale: Standard for Coaches is 3 Years
“…not only (does Tom Butters deserve credit for) hiring him (Coach K) but what about keeping him after three years when he was under .500? In today’s mentality that exists when you have 3 years in a visible program like Duke, you’re getting the ziggy man. You’re gone. So, one of the most valuable players […]
Friday in the ACC
Survive and Advance The Wolfpack did what we had to do – we beat Florida State (again). Thank God for Florida State. I don’t know how we figure out a way to get matched up against the Seminoles in the first round (3 of 9 times), but I’ll take it. (Now, if could just find […]
Bubbleology: Good Day (so far)
Last Updated: 5:30 PM ET Let’s refrain from having the conversation of how sad it is that we have to sit here and be reliant on other teams’ failures to help us out…and turn our attention to focusing on how NC State can make the NCAA Tournament. The “bigger picture” conversations can wait until after […]
Thank God for Florida State
Understanding Wolfpack Fans, Part II
This is the second installment in my series exploring the myths about Wolfpack fans. Today’s myth is one that I didn’t even know existed four days ago when I inaugurated this series. It apparently had been languishing in the dark, cobweb-covered corners of reporters’ brains, just needing the right circumstance to bring it out. The […]
