This coming college basketball season will bring some interesting rule changes, especially in the area of instant replay. The NCAA is expanding the role of instant replay incrementally, giving referees a chance to correct errors they make and to make calls that they perhaps overlooked in the course of play. There are also rules designed […]
College Basketball
Preseason Webrun
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) N.C. State DT K’Hadree Hooker transferring to ECU Defensive tackle K’Hadree Hooker has traded in his N.C. State red for East Carolina purple. The 6-foot-0, 307-pound redshirt freshman, who released from his scholarship at State earlier in the day, announced Thursday evening on Twitter that he will continue his […]
Preseason Webrun
NC STATE FOOTBALL Brett Friedlander (starnewsonline.com) Scrimmage performance helps transfer Mitchell become Wolfpack QB frontrunner Friday after practice, N.C.State football coach Dave Doeren said that the five-man battle for the Wolfpack’s starting quarterback job had been narrowed down to just two – senior transfer Brandon Mitchell and junior Pete Thomas. Judging from Doeren’s comments following […]
PJ Hairston Suspended Indefinitely After New Driving Charges
UPDATE: WRAL is reporting that PJ Hairston has been suspended “indefinitely” by Roy Williams: Steve Kirschner, a spokesman for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Athletics Department, issued a statement late Sunday saying men’s basketball coach Roy Williams has suspended Hairston, who averaged 14.6 points in 34 games last season, from the team […]
Summer Headlines
Hey fellow Wolfpackers, it’s July so that means it’s the slowest sports news cycle of the year but there have been a few headlines across the web over the past few days that I’d like to post just so we don’t let the news pass us by. First we’ll start off with a little NC […]
SI: How John Swofford brought stability to the ACC
If you can avoid getting too nauseous, this will be good “Sunday read”. [snip] he did what he has done for the past 10 years. He very quietly took decisive action to strengthen — and possibly save — his conference. Swofford may look like he stepped out of a Brooks Brothers ad and into a […]
Entitlement problem with high school basketball players
This is a great article from Dave Telep. I have a feeling Gott is facing some of these issues. When you recruit the McD AAs you have to be very good at managing egos. A few points Telep made. I asked the staffers at Elite 24 who’d been part of the game for the past […]
Double Fouls and Held Balls
So what fun would college sports be if there wasn’t a bit of officiating controversy? And why should the Final Four be any different? But in this case, despite downplaying the screw job handed to them in the closing moments of their semi-finals loss to Louisville, it seems to us that Wichita State has a […]
FourFourEightyThree: 30 Years Later, The Cougs Are Still Crying
Thirty years later, the images are still etched into my mind and those of most Pack fans old enough to remember. The team in red, the huge underdogs, hugging each other with tears streaming. Fists and/or index fingers raised to the sky to indicate that the Pack truly was number one in the land once […]
Flashback: In 1974, N.C. State stood atop hoops world
Nice little write up re: ’73-’74 team on ESPN’s Fandom Blog this morning. Figured we could use something positive today even if it was nearly 40 years ago… It was a far different time in college basketball, before the 3-point line and one-and-done teenagers opting for the NBA. Dunking in games was outlawed and only […]
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