Head Coach Sidney Lowe and N.C. State received a basketball commitment from 6-foot-1 point guard Julius Mays, a highly rated junior from Marion, Ind. Mays, who was being recruited by several Big Ten schools, informed Wolfpack coach Sidney Lowe and his staff Thursday he planned to play for the Pack. Mays won’t be the first […]
Basketball Recruiting
BBall Recruiting & Scout’s 2007 Summer Top 100
I haven’t followed basketball or football recruiting with any real attention for quite a few years now. The slow death of my overall enthusiasm for NC State Basketball over the last decade combined with the exhaustion of the incessant spin from Herb Sendek’s basketball staff that almost every player the staff signed was a “diamond […]
Thomas Picks Pack!
Head Basketball Coach Sidney Lowe has landed his first commitment of the 2007 recruiting class in Johnny Thomas. (N&O Link) The 6-foot-5 Thomas was impressive last month in the annual Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions and has a strong basketball resume. He averaged 17.8 points per game last season while leading Greensboro Day to the […]
Lowe Landing Recruits
In the battle of the subscription websites, Pack Pride has scooped the The Wolfpacker today in important basketball recruiting news. Pack Pride is reporting on their front page that Sidney Lowe has secured his first two basketball recruits in Farnold Degand (point guard) and 7-foot-3, 235-pound Polish center, Bartosz Lewandowski. More information on both players […]
Bonner: Blue Chip Recruiting
“When you are a school like NC State, maybe you can’t recruit all the blue chip guys in the United States. Maybe those guys are going to places like Duke or North Carolina or Connecticut or UCLA or Kentucky. And so the foreign soil is a good place to go to get some guys to […]
Tudor Nails a Piece of the Success Blueprint
In addition to this piece, another of SFN’s more respected local writers penned some greath thoughts regarding Sidney Lowe today that merits some attention and discussion. The News & Observer’s Caulton Tudor compared the big gamble on Coach Lowe to the role of underdog that the 1983 National Champion Wolfpack. Tudor goes on to say: […]
State Perspective: ‘Barnes Beats out UNC, UConn’
The headline on the 4th page (Welcome to Texas) last week’s Houston Chronicle says it all: UT stages coup by luring recruit from powerhouses Barnes beats out North Carolina, UConn for Durant The NC State Message Boards have been having some (surprisingly) calm discussions about the topic…that invariably produces the question: “Depsite NC State’s significant […]
