State’s win over Virginia moved the Pack up to #25 in the RPI this morning. The current ACC schools look like the following: (#1) Duke (#24) Maryland (#25) North Carolina St (#30) Boston College (#36) UNC-CH (#59) Miami-Florida (#60) Virginia (#61) Clemson (#85) Florida St (#104) Wake Forest (#120) Virginia Tech (#134) Georgia Tech If […]
Welcome to the ACC, Boston College
Poor Boston College. They really thought that they had a chance last night. I didn’t watch the whole game with significant intensity. But, I did watch enough to know that Duke shot 37 free throws while Boston College shot 13 (on their home court). What most people are talking about was the obvious missed call […]
Close, But No Repeat Upset
Sean Singletary had a good look, and almost stuck the dagger in NC State’s collective heart for a second straight year. The Wolfpack’s transition defense was awful, but fortunately UVA’s half-court offense was even worse. Still, there’s a lot of work to do if this year’s team wants to scare anyone in March. Big Ced […]
Campout Draws Small Crowd
My, how things have changed. The article linked above and yesterday’s “Shooting Gallery” conversation got me thinking some about the past and the topic of the campout. I was a student at NC State from 1989 through 1993. From a basketball perspective, these certainly were not the “glory years” about which I had increasingly dreamed […]
Shooting Gallery
A discussion at the end of a comment string last week got me thinking – what would an all-time “first team” list of ACC shooters look like? I had a chance to discuss with two colleagues at lunch (one Duke fan, one UNC fan), and we seemed to agree on the following: Updated: You convinced […]
RPI and NCAA Seeds
Recently I have noticed a tendency to predict State’s seed in the NCAA tournament based on projections for a second-place finish in the ACC. While finishing second in the conference is certainly within reach, most of the projected seeds seemed too high to me. Given the decline in the ACC this year and the impact […]
RPI Update – 5
State stopped the RPI slide yesterday with a big road victory at Clemson. Since the RPI now gives more credit for a road victory, all road victories (especially conference ones) qualify as “big”. However, State’s graph shows that it is easier to move down than it is to move up once you are competing for […]
State Shows Moxy vs Tigers
In 2004, N.C. State lost at Clemson while ranked #15 in the country. Today, State entered LittleJohn with an indentical record and found a way to pull away in the second overtime to win at Clemson, 94-85. The Pack has now won 8 of its last 9 games against Clemson, and 4 of the last […]
Interactive: State OOC in Sendek Era
In light of Carolina’s out of conference basketball success this season….I thought that I would open up the forum for your thoughts on the topic of NC State’s out of conference success over the last decade. Let’s try to compile a list of NC State’s Ten Best Out of Conference Basketball victories of the Herb […]
Tarheels Tear up Zona
It was ALL Carolina today as the Heels did the ACC proud and domintated an Arizona team that came into the day rated #15 in the RPI and #35 in the Sagarin Computer. Although Arizona is not a Top 10 team this season, the Wildcats easily carry big time cache as one of the Top […]
