Stat of the Day

NC State vs NCAA Tournament teams

Now that the season is over, and Duke has won the national championship for 2010, we can fully take stock of the Wolfpack basketball team and see how well they performed against NCAA Tournament teams.  As many of us know, this year’s team was 7-7 against NCAA Tournament teams. How does that compare to past […]

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The State of State 2.0 – Men’s Basketball

With the season officially getting underway this week, I thought I would share some historical stats on our men’s basketball program. Similar entires for football, women’s basketball and championships can be found here and here and here. Men’s Basketball I. Records ACC Record: 397-401 (.497) ACC Record Pre-Fowler: 331-323 (.506) ACC Record Under Fowler: 66-78 […]

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NCAA Tournament Teams That Get All The Calls – Carolina, Connecticut and Chattanooga?

During our ACC Tournament viewing party, the subject came up of how much more North Carolina goes to the free throw line than their opponents. One of the excuses we had always heard was that their talent level discrepancy leads to the free throw discrepancy (and absolutely nothing to do with biased officiating…) This led us to wonder about a team like Memphis that utterly dominates Conference USA and is head and shoulders above the rest of the league, what sort of free throw advantage do they have?

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