“(N.C. State coach) Herb Sendek has the hangdog look of a coach whose idea of a perfect basketball game is sometimes 1-nil. There is no hint of joy in his wan facade, no sense of elation. His is the look of a person who carries the burden of too many tough losses of the past.
There is no swagger in Sendek, just an expressed desire to play it close, keep it close, because you never know, because one possession here or there, one shot here or there, and the night can be yours. It is a method that sometimes puts everyone to sleep, an incongruent concept for a conference that believes its worst game tops the best of everyone else�s.”
– Columnist Tom Knott, in the Washington Times,
March 2005
