NC State vs Wake Forest (Sweeps)

* Since Everett Case began coaching NC State in 1946, NC State has swept the entire season series from Wake Forest on 17 occassions. Herb Sendek has swept Wake Forest once.

* Since Everett Case began coaching NC State in 1946, NC State has swept the regular season series from Wake Forest on 20 occassions. Herb Sendek has swept the regular season from Wake Forest once.

* In the 37 year history of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball before Les Robinson was hired as the head coach of NC State, Wake Forest swept the entire season series from NC State on 2 occassions (62-63 and 61-62). Wake Forest has swept Herb Sendek’s NC State teams on 3 occassions in 10 years.

* In the 37 year history of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball before Les Robinson was hired as the head coach of NC State, NC State swept the entire season series from Wake Forest on 13 occassions. Herb Sendek has swept Wake Forest once.

* In the 37 year history of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball before Les Robinson was hired as the head coach of NC State, Wake Forest swept the regular season series from NC State on 5 occassions. Herb Sendek has been swept by Wake Forest in 4 of his 10 regular seasons.

* In the 37 year history of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball before Les Robinson was hired as the head coach of NC State, NC State swept the regular season series from Wake Forest on 15 occassions. Herb Sendek has swept Wake Forest in the regular season one time.

* Jim Valvano was never swept by Wake Forest in 10 years of coaching and was swept by Wake Forest in one regular season (his first).

* Norm Sloan was never swept by Wake Forest in 14 years of coaching and was swept by Wake Forest in 2 regular seasons.

* Everett Case was swept by Wake Forest in 2 of his 20 years of coaching, both of those seasons contained only the two games of the regular season match-up.

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  1. StateFans Nation » Blog Archive » NC State 88 Wake Forest 74 (Updated 11:30am Sunday) - 01/14/2007

    […] Take a quick look at some of these statistics about the history of sweeps in this series and note the discrepency in the long term history of the rivalry compared to the recent performance of the last 16 years. […]

  2. StateFans Nation » Blog Archive » Senior Night - Wake Entry - 02/28/2007

    […] State has a chance to sweep the Deacons tonight and take a huge step to re-establishing the ‘rightful order’ of things on Tobacco Road. Take a look at this link to some hard work that we put into analysis regarding sweeps in the Wolfpack – Demon Deacon series. Since Everett Case began coaching NC State in 1946, NC State has swept the regular season series from Wake Forest on 20 occassions. Herb Sendek swept the regular season from Wake Forest once. […]

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