Speaking of expectations: NCSU in top ten preseason polls

12-13 Basketball College Basketball Debbie Yow59

Mark Gottfried’s NC State basketball program continues to attract some major national media attention!!

Just today, two different preseason polls from national outlets – ESPN and NBC – have projected next year’s Wolfpack to start in the top ten in the country. I think they are assuming Leslie comes back. The excitement of college basketball has come back to Raleigh.

Just a note for all of the fans (and Lee Fowler and Jim Oblinger) with whom the bulk of SFN authors argued for years — if NC State starts the first week of the 2012-2013 basketball season at these rankings, it would be single-week ranking higher than ANY ranking that the great Herb Sendek achieved in TEN YEARS of opportunity as the head coach at NC State (and another six years at Arizona State, for that matter).

Can you smell what the Gott is cooking?!

Number six in this preseason poll

Number four in this preseason poll

Number five in this preseason poll

And we ended up twenty in the final ESPN poll.
Final ESPN poll

About Rick

1992 and 2002 graduate from NCSU. Born and raised an NCSU fan. I remember the good ol' days and they weren't in the last 20 years.

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59 Responses to Speaking of expectations: NCSU in top ten preseason polls

  1. TOBtime 04/04/2012 at 5:38 PM #

    46″ Panasonic plasma Tucker. Had it for 3 yrs. The Vieralink system Panasonic has is cool if you buy anything else Panasonic to hook to the TV.

    What will SHOCK you is the picture on this thing with one of the Leaf over-the-air antennaes. You just can’t believe how the colors of a football game look using the antennae vs satellite.

    The Pack is back.

  2. tuckerdorm1983 04/04/2012 at 6:47 PM #

    thanks for all the input. I will sneak the wife into Best Buy and trick her into buying one. Just got my tax refund and I think I can get a real nice TV for under 1000 dollars.
    She watches all that reality tv crap like Celebrity Chefs and The Biggest Loser. I watch the ultimate in reality tv, the WolfPack Sports. When we are kicking ass and taking names next year that will be as real as it gets. Reality will begin to set in for our neighbors in Orange and Durham Counties.

  3. nouveau wolf 04/04/2012 at 9:09 PM #

    Pretty cool: Football last year ranked #25 final AP poll; Basketball ranked #20 ESPN/Coaches; Baseball currently NCAA #13.

    Back, indeed!

  4. turfpack 04/04/2012 at 10:13 PM #

    Attitude refects leadership……We got leadership with great attitude!!!!! Hu..Rah! to this new leaderships at Wolfpack nation…..THANKS!!!!

  5. chriscgray 04/04/2012 at 10:45 PM #

    The key is going to be consistent recruiting. Making sure we continue without many mediocre recruiting years is what I am most concerned about. We really need some top big men to commit to State. It is the most excitement I can remember around basketball in a long time. Football we just need health and depth and coaching should keep us one of the better teams in the ACC. Im waiting for some big recruits to notice State in Football. Its good we develop our players, but we need more top level recruits in football.

  6. 61Packer 04/05/2012 at 9:07 PM #

    TOBtime, the HDTV picture on any set will be better with an outdoor antenna than it is with cable or satellite. The reason is because the over-the-air picture isn’t as compressed as the picture fed through cable or satellite.

    I have the last HD tube model tv made, a 34″ Sony WEGA, which I bought 4 years ago. It has a rectangular tube which is large enough for a small den, and although it’s very heavy, we don’t have to move it around. It has the best picture I’ve ever seen on a tv, bar none. I get nearly 40 local channels with an old 1970s UHF antenna I dug out of the garage, and I don’t even have to use a rotor. I’ve pointed the antenna toward Randleman and can pick up Channels 2, 8, 20 and 48 from the Triad, plus I get the locals off the back of the antenna, all perfect pictures. The good thing about this is that I get the CBS basketball games in HD off Channel 2 or the ACC games in HD off Channel 48 when Channel 5 is putting them on 5.2, which is non-HD. Also, Channel 2 does not have the aggravating delay that WRAL has, which is nearly 20 seconds when seen on cable or satellite. Plus, I get the SEC network with both football and basketball on Channel 20, in HD. 17.2 here sometimes shows them but again it’s in non-HD.

    Here in Wake County, anyone with an HD tv can get the local channels even with just rabbit ears, and the picture is definitely clearer than it is off satellite and especially cable, and it’s free.

  7. TOBtime 04/06/2012 at 10:45 AM #

    ^61, I’m just waiting till my contract is up with DISH to drop totally out of the sat picture. Yes, I’ll miss some sports(Tour de Fr.) but as you point out there is also plenty over-the-air.I’ll really miss baseball but my DISH package is so low on the totem pole right now I don’t get much anyway.

  8. Rick 04/06/2012 at 11:36 AM #

    I have a 60 inch rear projection HDTV.
    It will not die and I cannot bring myself to buy a new one until it does.

  9. lupus occidit arietem 04/06/2012 at 5:41 PM #

    to all those that keep stating “i thought it took years to build a program”, it does. Gott is not this successful in the NC State High Post with HWSNBN’s Princeton players. But with a group of athletes that Sid spent fives years gathering he could be. Do not kid yourself that this all happened over night. The coaching and gelling happened pretty quick but that is a team of 4 and 5star kids, not filler for the roster. They will be better next year since the upper classmen can help with the freshmen and add more wrinkles to the o and d, but again this did not happen over night…..

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