NC State vs Xavier in Dayton on Tuesday at 9:10pm [Updated 6:55pm]

NC State will play Xavier in the “First Four” in Dayton on Tuesday night at 9:10pm.

With a win, State travels to Orlando to play St. Louis on Thursday.

Ultimately, things shook out just like we said yesterday when we said that NC State would be either the last team in the field or the last team out.

We also told you this morning that this analysis was the most appropriate and accurate of all of the bubble analysis out there. BOOM! I hope you listened to us, we would have saved you an awful lot of heartburn (and time) following the morons who don’t know how to add and subtract. You are welcome. 🙂

For fun, allow me to highlight that NC State is in the same bracket with Herb Sendek’s Arizona State Sun Devils…who, for even MORE FUN, is playing RICK BARNES’s Texas Longhorns. WOW!! Someone get me out of 2005!!

In all of this, I can’t help but LOVE the egg on the face of some of the expert ‘Bracketologists’, most notably Joe Lunardi of ESPN. Lunardi was so dismissive about NC State that he not only refused to acknowledge State as a ‘First Four Out’; he moved the Pack completely out of consideration and added salt into his own wound by keeping FSU as one of the first teams to miss the Tourney. That is the same FSU that NC State defeated head to head on our way to finishing ahead of in the ACC as we’ve been on fire the last three weeks. Sorry, Joe

But, of all of the douchebags that live ‘out there’ in pundit-land, nobody has as much egg on their face as ESPN’s Jeff Goodman who was adamant all weekend that NC State would have to win the ACC Tournament to advance to the NCAA Tournament. Not only was Goodman wrong about that proclamation, he missed it by a full two rounds as State needed two LESS wins than he projected.

Earlier today Goodman again proclaimed that the Pack wouldn’t make the tournament.

His reaction when NC State was selected?

The take-away from all this should be obvious — keep listening to us.

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  • #47084
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    Clearing my Wednesday morning schedule as we speak…

    #47086
    VaWolf82
    Keymaster

    I give K absolutely no credit. F’him

    #47087
    tjfoose1
    Participant

    Damn. Im on a plane Tues night. Who knew.

    #47089
    redcanine
    Participant

    F yeah, homies!

    Time to change my shorts. It was worth it. YESSSSSSSSSSSS!

    #47090
    bill.onthebeach
    Participant

    ‘Foose said:

    Did the ncaa just acknowledge the screw job acc refs gave State @ Syracuse and vs u*nc?

    ^^^ IF ‘foose says so that’s good enough for me….

    Especially after the FIFTYEIGHT in the *nc game…

    Time for the conspiracists amongst us to start connecting the tinfoil dots on exactly how old ‘foose figured this out so fast….

    #NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
    #47096
    JeremyH
    Participant

    Kellogg and Gottleib praising Warren and calling him a “bucket getter”!

    #47097
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    Haha, Buckets! Everyone loves them some Buckets!

    #47098
    Sweet jumper
    Participant

    No play-in team or 12 seed has ever won it all. GOTT to listen to Whitt, channel some Jimmy V and survive and advance!!!! Go Pack!! Very proud of this team. Already have exceeded expectations. Catch fire Buckets and lead us on a deep run.

    #47099
    eas
    Participant

    F you Jeff Goodman!

    #47100
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    We even avoid playing on my personal bad luck day (Wednesday). Recipients of the very last bid.

    Weird angle nobody has mentioned yet – we probably have our old 1983 friends Houston for this invite (beat SMU in the American quarters, with an RPI in 150s).

    #47102
    JeremyH
    Participant

    We already have practice playing against teams with less rest than them (1 for 2)

    #47103
    BJD95
    Keymaster

    VCU went from play-in to Final Four, LaSalle to Sweet Sixteen. The track record is actually pretty good.

    #47108
    JeremyH
    Participant

    its not how you start, its how you finish

    #47110
    bill.onthebeach
    Participant

    … This could be interesting or ugly… nothing much in between…

    Based on what we saw, and what we didn’t see, in Greensboro….

    How far we go will depend on three guys… and CUZ ain’t one of ’em…

    Vandy, Dez Lee and Anthony…

    #NCSU-North Carolina's #1 FOOTBALL school!
    #47111
    Hawkeye Whitney
    Participant

    Any video of our guys during announcement? I loved it from 2 years ago.

    #47112
    JeremyH
    Participant

    there might not be a video in fear of it being pointless to record one…

    #47113
    VaWolf82
    Keymaster

    I got no problem with L’ville as a 4, but I don’t understand UK at a 8 seed

    #47114
    eas
    Participant

    Yes, I want to see the reaction video as well.

    #47116
    VaWolf82
    Keymaster

    Is anyone listening to ESPN talk about their BPI. If something doesn’t make sense versus their made-up ranking…maybe the problem is with the BPI.

    #47117
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    I’d be interested to see an analysis on number 1s. UVA seems like a very weak 1. Clearly, the committee respected them more than the polls. They had some terrible losses. Played an unbalanced schedule, and owned it. Interesting.

    #47118
    tjfoose1
    Participant

    http://www.ehow.com/how_2077358_eat-crow.html

    Here you go. You know who you are. 🙂

    #47119
    wufpup76
    Keymaster

    Thank you Coach Gottfried for being a competent and knowledgeable D1 coach as it is clear that our Sos and cpu numbers helped us get in.

    Yay! So excited!

    #47120
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    Xavier killed Cincy at the beginning of the year. Beat Wake. Wins over Creighton and Providence twice. Big East. Thought they were A10.

    #47122
    1.21 Jigawatts
    Keymaster

    Brutal travel schedule if the Pack wins against Xavier.

    Fly to Dayton, OH tomorrow for a late Tuesday night game.
    Win & fly to Orlando, FL (for an unknown time at this moment) Thursday game.

    #47123
    Wulfpack
    Participant

    I think we are all eating crow, at least on the bubble talk. We missed it.

    Now the conspiracy theory talks…let them rest in peace 🙂

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