NCAAT Thursday Thread

07-08 Basketball85

I’m just about ready to head home and watch the action. Georgia/Xavier could be interesting, and Michigan State/Temple could be a combined 90-point effort. Purdue/Baylor is an interesting 2:55 matchup.

Friday, of course, is our big day where “ORANGEfansNation” will be in full effect. Go Vols! Go Longhorns!… I will be live blogging the Clemson/Nova game tomorrow night. Hold that Tiger!

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1995 NC State graduate, sufferer of Les and MOC during my entire student tenure. An equal-opportunity objective critic and analyst of Wolfpack sports.

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85 Responses to NCAAT Thursday Thread

  1. Sweet jumper 03/21/2008 at 7:58 AM #

    Belmont played a very good game. Duke also played well, and I don’t think they were looking past Belmont. Good coaching job by Belmont with a meltdown on the last inbounds play. Duke dodged a bullet.
    Interesting sidenote–An educational website took the the NCAA brackets and evaluated all matchups based on academics and Davidson beat Belmont in the finals!

  2. Howler 03/21/2008 at 8:20 AM #

    “When Duke and Carolina get in the NCAA and don’t get the benefit of every close call, don’t get to hand check, and don’t get to flop… they’re both beatable. It will be interesting to see how things go for them.”

    Exactly.

    When Singler got his 4th foul diving after the ball and taking the Belmont player’s feet out from under him, Singler began woofing and whining about the call. Don’t these refs understand that Duke’s hustle always exempts them from foul calls?

    Hoping for a miracle and a 1st round Carolina loss. 🙂

  3. #44 17 24 03/21/2008 at 8:25 AM #

    I hate CBS for screwing up facebook.com’s bracket challenge.

  4. redfred2 03/21/2008 at 8:44 AM #

    With all of these coach’s names being bantered around, I felt the need to type up a good ol’ morning rant…

    I was pretty amazed that Lowe was asked a direct question on the PUBLIC airwaves, by Toni Haynes I think, who is paid by NCSU, about his thoughts on sticking it out in Raleigh. There was never a word uttered about anything like that back during the eternity that ” ” was here.

    Lowe, and more importantly, Lee Fowler, and more importantly, James Oblinger, and more importantly The Board, ALL, have to know. It’s a matter of public record and there’s no room for a, “Shucks, we had no idea” or any excuses this time around.

    I’m still pulling for Sidney Lowe, but this entire season was right up there with the largest disappointments I’ve ever witnessed in sports in general. When he was hired I never thought in a million years that I’d be worrying about this, but Sidney Lowe, of all the people who could have occupied the position, has to now prove to me that he is here for, and all about, the Wolfpack of NC State University. I do not hear it in his voice, or feel any passion when he speaks now. He’s lost his edge, the fans will be looking at him in totally different light, and he will now struggle to fight off the doubt that inevitably creeps in, each and every time his team even slightly stumbles from here on out.

    It wasn’t going to be an easy task to begin with, but with losing in the manner that he did this season, Lowe has created something that is much more difficult then the situation he walked into.

  5. Noah 03/21/2008 at 9:01 AM #

    redfred, I want you to know that I respect you, even though we agree on almost nothing.

    Your last paragraph is spot-on.

  6. choppack1 03/21/2008 at 9:21 AM #

    redfred – the man loves NC State. But I think the events since our last NIT games have likely throttled his confidence. Unlike other potentialy candidates, he has nothing that he’s every done successfully as a HC to fall back on.

    This thing could still work, but it’s going to take some great players and a lot of good breaks – and probably some new faces on the staff.

  7. Sweet jumper 03/21/2008 at 9:35 AM #

    I too am rooting for Sid, and I agree with Redfred2 that this season has significantly worsened his situation.

    Our 18 years of suckdom are directly related to the way that our administration handled the Valvano mess. After Personal Fouls was shown to be a work of fiction and after the NCAA found no major violations but only some players selling shoes and tickets, our administration should have replaced Valvano as AD with a strong, skilled person and encouraged V to slow down on the entertainment trail and personally manage and police his team and dedicate himself to coaching like in the early 80’s. Then V would have been diagnosed with terminal cancer while still the coach at NCSU and would have been able to help hand-pick his successor (similar to Everett Case picking Press Maravich as his successor when Case was dying). The young up-and-coming coaching stars at that time were Pitino, Calipari and Barnes, among others.

    Sorry to get off topic, but I find it intersting and sad how a few bad decisions by our administration who caved into the N&O witchunt can cause nearly 20 years of mediocrity and leave us with the mess that is now the NCSU Athletics Department and specifically the NCSU Basketball Program.

  8. redfred2 03/21/2008 at 10:27 AM #

    Thanks guys.

    I know I do that kind of stuff WAAAY too much around, but please keep your related, and fact driven, comments coming, they are GREAT!!! That is if SFN doesn’t mind. I think maybe looking back and relating that knowldege is much needed right now. It may the only way to keep our own sanity, but even better than that, it may help to least make some sense of it all, to the very few young fans we have still looking in on a Wolfpack athletics site.

    Noah, how can you say that? We’ve barely even touched on politics around here. 😉

  9. Howler 03/21/2008 at 10:46 AM #

    Those shoes that were sold ended up being mighty expensive… cost us a helluva lot, and we’re still paying for them 20 years later.

  10. BJD95 03/21/2008 at 1:04 PM #

    Good second half for Miami. I feel good for McClinton – he certainly paid his dues. Nice comeback by Davidson, too.

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