Instead of moving up with a road win, State dropped down four with the loss. This was State’s first loss of the year to an RPI-100+ team. You can try to polish that up if you like…but I think you will end up just making a mess. This game illustrates why the RPI and other […]
Around The Dial
I hesitate to even log an entry this morning in light of VaWolf’s awesome “Looking for Brackets” entry that you should read here. Additionally, there are other entries beneath this that may be of interest to you (so many folks visit on only look at the top entry and miss other recent submissions). But, in […]
One Possession Games (3 Pts or less)
Herb Sendek Era (1996-2006) * 20-32 overall * 4-17 in last 21 games * Lost 15 of 20 games with Julius Hodge’s recruiting class * 6-17 in the last four and half “great” seasons 11/25/96: 44-41 Penn State (W) 1/15/97: 56-59 North Carolina (L) 1/25/97: 52-53 Georgia Tech (L) 2/12/97: 44-45 North Carolina (L) 2/16/97: […]
State Travels to Tech
NC State travels to Georgia Tech today to renew a rivalry of technical schools in the ACC. We don’t do a lot of game previews on the blog since you can get that from so many different sources. Additionally, in Blog-world, Section Six usually does a super job of finding something to highlight while previewing […]
Looking for Brackets?
I love college basketball and have ever since elementary school. However, I absolutely hate brackets. I hate reading about them starting in January. I hate the discussions on filling them out. I hate listening to the idiotic ESPN talking heads droning on about how their brackets are doing instead of the actual NCAAT games. I […]
Who’s Your Current ACC COY?
I think you could make a very solid case for at least 4 coaches, including all of Tobacco Road. Unbeaten in the league is worthy of consideration, regardless of whether it’s a down year in the ACC. So, Coach K is in the mix. Herb Sendek lost his best player and is producing the best […]
RPI Update
After an exciting night of basketball, it’s a shame that the graphs aren’t nearly as thrilling (only State’s graph updated today). A road victory moved State’s RPI into the Top-20…its best ranking all year. State’s RPI Graph State still stands at 4-4 against the RPI Top-50. Alabama came through and managed to beat Vandy in […]
A Collapse Narrowly Averted
One made field goal in the last 10:35 will ensure a dramatic finish, even when nursing a 15 point lead in a low-scoring game. Fortunately, Cam and Gavin kept State alive to get to the 2nd OT, where Miami ran out of gas. Despite blowing the big lead, it was great to win a close […]
A Warning About Cupcakes
Making fun of people that put together brackets in January is a lot like shooting fish in a barrel. But that shouldn’t stop us from pointing out the mistakes and faulty logic displayed by Joe Lunardi of ESPN when he took a shot at teams with weak OOC schedules this week: The NCAA Tournament committee […]
Prosser: Speculation is a ‘monster’
Prosser, the coach at struggling Wake Forest, deviated from that policy yesterday after a key recruit expressed concern about Prosser’s future at Wake Forest. Anthony Gurley, a highly-regarded guard from Newton North High School in Massachusetts told the Boston Herald that he had called Prosser last week after weeks of hearing that Prosser might leave […]
