why not.



Wed, Oct 25 Red/White Game Reynolds Coliseum 7:00 p.m.
Fri, Nov 03 Northern State (Exh.) Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m.
Tue, Nov 07 St. Augustine's (Exh.) Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m.
Fri, Nov 10 Wofford Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m.
Fri, Nov 17 Delaware State Raleigh, N.C. 8:00 p.m.
Tue, Nov 21 Valparaiso Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m.
Fri, Nov 24 Gardner Webb Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m.
ACC/Big 10 Challenge
Mon, Nov 27 Michigan Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m. ESPN2
Sun, Dec 03 Virginia * at Charlottesville, Va. 3:30 p.m. FSN
Wed, Dec 06 West Virginia at Charleston, W.Va. TBA
Sat, Dec 09 Savannah State Reynolds Coliseum TBA
Sat, Dec 16 Mount St. Mary's Raleigh, N.C. 3:30 p.m.
Wed, Dec 20 Alabama Raleigh, N.C. 6:30 p.m. FSNS
Sat, Dec 23 Cincinnati at Cincinnati, Ohio 12:00 p.m. ESPNU
Thu, Dec 28 East Carolina Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m. ESPNU
Sat, Dec 30 UNC Wilmington Raleigh, N.C. 12:00 p.m. ESPNU
Tue, Jan 02 UNC Greensboro Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m. ESPNU
Sat, Jan 06 Boston College * Raleigh, N.C. 2:00 p.m. RLF
Tue, Jan 09 Clemson * Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m. RSN
Sat, Jan 13 Wake Forest * at Winston-Salem, N.C. 12:00 p.m. RLF
Sat, Jan 20 Duke * Raleigh, N.C. 3:30 p.m. ABC
Wed, Jan 24 Virginia * Raleigh, N.C. 9:00 p.m. RLF
Wed, Jan 31 Virginia Tech * at Blacksburg, Va. 9:00 p.m. RSN
Sat, Feb 03 North Carolina * Raleigh, N.C. 3:30 p.m. ABC
Tue, Feb 06 Georgia Tech * at Atlanta, Ga. 7:00 p.m. RSN
Sat, Feb 10 Miami * at Coral Gables, Fla. 4:00 p.m. RLF
Wed, Feb 14 Maryland * Raleigh, N.C. 7:00 p.m. ESPN2
Sun, Feb 18 Virginia Tech * Raleigh, N.C. 4:00 p.m. RLF
Wed, Feb 21 North Carolina * at Chapel Hill, N.C. 9:00 p.m. RLF
Sat, Feb 24 Florida State * at Tallahassee, Fla. 1:00 p.m. RLF
Wed, Feb 28 Wake Forest * Raleigh, N.C. 9:00 p.m. ESPNU
Sat, Mar 03 Maryland * at College Park, Md. 3:30 p.m. ABC

ACC Tournament
NCAA Tournament


its seems like we are already getting more national television coverage





GO PACK

9/19/2006 11:57:42 AM

ah fuck. just found brass monkeys thread

9/19/2006 11:58:43 AM

9/19/2006 12:03:25 PM

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

9/19/2006 12:04:15 PM

dats a fooulll

[Edited on September 19, 2006 at 12:06 PM. Reason : .]

9/19/2006 12:05:14 PM

WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

The "@ WVU" game is gonna be hosted in Charleston, presumably where WVU typically plays Marshall!

I live in Charleston, so if any Raleigh-ians wanna make the (beautiful) 5-hour drive over, hit me up for a place to chill.

9/19/2006 12:05:46 PM

Dammit why are so many of our games on ESPNU now?

Oh nevermind now that I have looked only the Cincy game is on the road, so Ill be at the rest here.

9/19/2006 1:25:04 PM

My last year so let's make it a good one.

9/19/2006 2:24:21 PM

I hate how they most of our games are on ESPNU now, why would they even make that deal knowing that the triangle dosent even fucking get ESPNU!!!

9/19/2006 2:46:32 PM

Quote :

"dats a fooulll"

Clearly it's not. You have overlooked one crucial aspect of that pitcher. The uniform on the right says Duke.

[Edited on September 19, 2006 at 2:48 PM. Reason : x]

9/19/2006 2:47:59 PM

Scooter was a pitcher?

9/19/2006 2:54:11 PM

look for braxton to get moved to starting pg, thus completing the rise of broughton alumni.

9/19/2006 2:56:23 PM

but why is casey sanders throwin his trays up?

west siyeed?

9/19/2006 3:39:48 PM

I just shit my britches laughing

9/19/2006 3:42:57 PM

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"Wed, Oct 25 Red/White Game Reynolds Coliseum 7:00 p.m. "

why not RBC Center on a football day?

9/19/2006 3:51:10 PM

i like having the REd and white game in reynolds.


now all the student on central campus can flood the coliseum on a school night and forget about studying for a few hours.

i think its alot cooler, and it gives more attention to the bball team instead of stickin them right besides the football disease.

9/19/2006 5:55:50 PM

Quote :

"why not. "

bc lowe will make herb look like chuck

9/19/2006 6:08:59 PM

needs to hurry up

10/28/2006 2:40:18 PM

then by january you'll be saying...can't wait until football. Its an endless cycle here at state.

10/28/2006 3:12:18 PM

2013

that'll be our year, folks

10/28/2006 3:13:16 PM

red and white game depressed me...




Tickets are all gone for Wofford, Delaware, and Valparaiso evidently from WPC

10/28/2006 9:20:47 PM

red white game was... slow. bout like football ppl. don't get your hopes up at all.

and I thought I was never negative

10/28/2006 10:15:43 PM

yaaaa thursday night hockey, friday night basketball, saturday night football.. fun.

(tickets to all = ftw)

10/28/2006 11:22:27 PM

for those who went to the game, how did fells look? I heard he was balling people up.. and just to put a spin on things, maybe our defense is gonna be fucking awesome?

10/29/2006 12:42:22 AM

^ they all looked pretty flat to me.

fells looked alright. not bad. but nothing incredible.. but it's not december either

10/29/2006 1:00:30 AM

NCAA Tournament

10/29/2006 1:50:11 AM

We won't be good this year but it'll be fun to watch.

The team was actually smiling unlike last year's red and white game.

10/29/2006 1:51:19 AM

^ too bad we wont be in the stands when Hansborough opens his mouth and eats Bartoz Lewandowski for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

10/29/2006 12:27:48 PM

WHO GIVES A FUCK IF WE WIN....AS LONG AS WE HAVE AN OFFENSE THATS FUN TO WATCH!



We suck. 12 wins for the year.

10/29/2006 12:55:23 PM

sidney is gonna do great things here

10/29/2006 4:47:09 PM

Lowe for ACC coach of the year

10/29/2006 4:49:07 PM

We will actually have an exciting team this year, which will be good for more wins than you think. A few years of playing the popular uptempo style that teams win with, and we will be higher than herb ever had us. nc state recruits itself in some ways, and the shortcomings are overcome with a "cool" coach like lowe that players actually like and can relate to and will get them to the NBA. he has put life back in the program after it was lumbering around like a corpse for 10 years.

10/29/2006 5:42:20 PM

can someone post the preview for our team (ESPN Insider)? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2613026

10/31/2006 10:17:17 AM

yeah, I heard the team looked pretty bad at the red and white game.

10/31/2006 10:55:38 AM

^^ bttt

10/31/2006 3:22:07 PM

look up the thread on the red and white game, i did a diagnosis of our team.

10/31/2006 3:24:26 PM

Randy....is this guy an alias or what?

Clemson plays an uptempo game...how many guys are they putting in the NBA?

For the record the last couple of years we HAVE been putting guys in the NBA.

10/31/2006 3:25:10 PM

on talent alone, certainly not on their ability to run the herb offense

and we have put what like 3 in the NBA? wow, gg herbie

10/31/2006 3:26:17 PM

Actually 4 in the last 4 years and if Cam Ben could end up making it that would be 5.

10/31/2006 3:27:35 PM

thats just because we're ncstate. we're gonna have that much + whatever sindey lowe gets us now

10/31/2006 3:31:49 PM

Quote :

"can someone post the preview for our team (ESPN Insider)? http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2613026"

The part they have for free is a pretty good read

11/1/2006 5:03:28 PM

dumb question here probably....but can ferguson/degand play in exhibition games?

11/1/2006 5:23:13 PM

Ferguson cannot play till 1st semester is over AT ALL.

Degand probably will not be able to play this year AT ALL unless the NCAA rules in his favor, which we need badly.

11/1/2006 5:24:43 PM

COACH AND PROGRAM

When Sidney Lowe turned out the lights on his spectacular college basketball career, he couldn't have gone out on a higher note. As the coach-on-the-floor point guard for the 1983 Wolfpack, he had just guided NC State to one of the most improbable runs in the history of the NCAA Tournament, a six-game sweep that culminated with the historic upset of Houston in the title game.

That was nearly a quarter century ago, and when Lowe returned to Raleigh in May to become the 18th head coach in NC State basketball history, the landscape of the old homestead was quite different.

And Lowe, who has spent the last 23 years either playing or coaching in professional basketball, knew that he would face many obstacles if he wanted to repeat what he did as a player -- winning ACC and NCAA championships.

To begin with, Lowe has never coached a college game in his life. He has, however, twice been an NBA head coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Vancouver/Memphis Grizzlies. His overall record of 79-228 wasn't impressive, but neither was what he had to work with during his tenure with those expansion franchises. Most recently, Lowe was Flip Saunders' top assistant with the Detroit Pistons and, because he was still considered one of the top young coaching prospects in the league, was certain to get another head position in coming years.

Secondly, he'll be entering the toughest neighborhood in college basketball, where Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, North Carolina's Roy Williams and Wake Forest's Skip Prosser are used to taking the lunch money of every other kid on college basketball's playground.

Finally, the team Lowe inherited is in no way similar to the one Herb Sendek, who left in early April for Arizona State after 10 years of leading the Wolfpack, would have put on the court this fall, because some players left early, recruits never showed up and there's a disturbing lack of ball-handlers other than three-year starter Engin Atsur (10.8 ppg, 3.2 rpg). The loss of seniors Ilian Evtimov, Tony Bethel and Cameron Bennerman, who accounted for nearly 34 points and 11 rebounds per game last year, will be felt, too.

Yet on the day he was hired, Lowe was treated like the returning hero he is viewed to be among the Wolfpack faithful. Because of his connection to the glory days of Wolfpack basketball -- Lowe was recruited by Norm Sloan and played three years for Jim Valvano, the two coaches that brought national championships to Raleigh -- Lowe made an immediate connection to fans, about 1,000 of which gathered on campus the day he was hired to welcome him back.

It was a connection that Sendek never seemed to make, despite leading the Wolfpack to three ACC Tournament championship games and five consecutive NCAA appearances. He never seemed to gain acceptance from some of the school's loudest fans. Even averaging 21 wins over the last five seasons wasn't enough to quell the criticism when his team seemed to fall apart at the end of the year, beginning with an embarrassing 95-71 home loss to a North Carolina team that had lost its top seven players from the year before.

Those boo-birds got louder as the Wolfpack lost in overtime to Boston College and back-to-back games against last place Wake Forest, first in the regular-season finale and then in the ACC Tournament.

A first-round win over California in the NCAA Tournament ended a four-game losing streak, but a second-half collapse against Texas left many State fans feeling empty about a season that had begun with such promise and ended without a championship -- again.

State, which has won 10 ACC championships and two national titles, hasn't brought home a trophy to speak of since the Valvano-led 1987 team won the ACC Tournament in Landover, Md.

Some of the more outspoken detractors pointed to Sendek's 17-54 record against the other Big Four schools in North Carolina and the fact that he led the team to the Sweet 16 only once in his 10 years. As those fans became more vocal, Sendek looked to find a place where his impressive credentials in building a program, in running a clean show, in recruiting top talent would be more appreciated.

NC State athletics director Lee Fowler began a well-chronicled 35-day coaching search that started with some familiar names in college basketball -- Texas' Rick Barnes, Memphis' John Calipari, former UCLA coach Steve Lavin and West Virginia's John Beilein.

None of those possibilities worked out, despite some of the most lucrative contract terms of any college coach. So Fowler opted to reconnect with the Wolfpack's storied basketball tradition, and all roads led to the former point guard who had been called a coach-on-the-floor since his days in grade school.

He immediately felt at home -- not surprising because Lowe has maintained a residence in Raleigh since signing his first professional basketball contract in 1984.

"I have played this game on the college level, the highest [professional] level and in the biggest game ever," Lowe said. "That is something I can pass on to our players, in terms of just being able to compete in games like that and keeping your composure. I can speak from experience. When you are talking to kids, they know you have been through it and been through the wars."

There was much work for Lowe to do over the summer, including finishing the Pistons' run in the NBA playoffs and completing his course work for his degree in Business Administration from St. Paul's College, because a college degree was a requirement for getting the head-coaching position.

So he put together a strong coaching staff that includes former NC State point guard Monte Towe, who left his position as the head coach at New Orleans; Larry Harris, who spent all 10 years on Sendek's staff at NC State; and former Coastal Carolina head coach Pete Strickland, who played at Pittsburgh with Harris and was a couple of years ahead of Lowe at DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Md. He left those guys in charge while he finished up his other duties.

PLAYERS

It was a difficult transition. Two of the three players Sendek signed in November asked out of their scholarships. Larry Davis of Middle Village (N.Y.) Christ the King High School opted to go to Seton Hall, while Dan Werner, the New Jersey Player of the Year, chose to play at defending national champion Florida.

That left 6-8 wing forward Dennis Horner, who averaged 16 points and eight rebounds as a senior at Absecon (N.J.) Holy Spirit High School, as the only incoming recruit for a team that lost sophomore center Cedric Simmons, in addition to the three previously mentioned seniors. Simmons, despite a recruiting effort by Lowe, took advantage of a weak NBA draft, declared for early entry and was taken with the 15th overall pick by the New Orleans Hornets.

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11/1/2006 6:37:41 PM

In addition, 6-11 forward/baseball super prospect Andrew Brackman (7.6 ppg, 3.5 rpg) spent the summer recovering from a hairline fracture in his hip that he suffered during basketball. It affected his pitching during the college season, and raised doubts among the major league scouts who once considered Brackman a Top 10 prospect in the 2007 baseball draft.

Throughout the summer, the professional baseball people planted the bug in Brackman's ear that he needed to prove himself on the mound before they would invest a huge signing bonus and contract in his 100-mile-an-hour right arm. Brackman performed well in the Cape Cod League, earning recognition as the famed wooden bat league's No. 2 prospect, and briefly for Team USA when he was called to fill in with one start on the national team's summer trip to Cuba.

As of the beginning of school, Brackman still hadn't decided if he was going to play basketball and baseball for the third consecutive year.

Lowe, who is short on big men other than 6-9 sophomore Ben McCauley (2.1 ppg, 1.0 rpg), was recruiting Brackman hard to return to basketball, though it seemed unlikely that he would do both sports on a full-time basis considering the money that is on the line with baseball.

"Re-recruiting him as been our first priority," Lowe said in August. "He's our most important piece."

The new coaching staff did find some late additions to the roster, signing Iowa State point guard Farnold Degand, who sat out last year because of academics for the Cyclones and will sit out this year under NCAA transfer rules, along with 7-3 project Bartosz Lewandowski, who was being recruited by Towe at New Orleans before he switched jobs. Lewandowski is a native of Poland who spent last year playing at Bridgton Academy in Maine.

There are a couple of other new faces, including 6-5 red-shirt freshman guard Trevor Ferguson, who transferred into the program last year at mid-season after originally signing with Pittsburgh and will be eligible to join the team in December. Ferguson, a Florida native who averaged 26.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 7.5 assists as a senior at Oldsmar (Fla.) Christian Academy, attended summer school classes at Pitt but never officially joined the program.

Ferguson has had a long road to play college basketball, after breaking both wrists while attempting a dunk as a junior in high school. He missed all but 12 games of his junior season, sat out what should have been his senior season and was then granted a rare fifth year of eligibility by the Florida High School Athletic Association.

And Simon Harris, a 6-5 forward and the son of assistant coach Larry Harris, came to NC State as a walk-on from Elon College, where he played two seasons, averaging 2.6 points and 3.2 rebounds last year.

The list of returning players is thin, but talented. Atsur has been a steady contributor and effective outside shooter every since he arrived as a freshman. The native of Istanbul spent the better part of August playing with his country's national team in the FIBA World Championships in Japan, coming off the bench in Turkey's surprise sixth-place finish.

As the only scholarship senior on the roster, he'll be asked to be the team's primary leader. The team's other senior is 6-6 forward Bryan Nieman (0.2 ppg, 0.7 rpg), who played in just six games as a walk-on after transferring from junior college.

Junior Gavin Grant (8.3 ppg, 4.7 rpg) played well at the end of the season and is one of the ACC's most versatile players, when he plays under control and takes care of the ball. He averaged 15.0 points and 4.6 rebounds in the Wolfpack's last five games, including a career-high 24 points in the ACC Tournament loss to Wake Forest. The other upperclassmen on the roster include Brackman and walk-ons Braxton Albritton (0.9 ppg, 0.3 rpg) and Harris.

There are two other sophomores, in addition to Degand, who gained experience last year: McCauley and athletic 6-5 swingman Courtney Fells (2.0 ppg, 1.5 rpg). Fells saw limited action last year as a freshman, but he performed well down the stretch and is eager to be a more consistent contributor.

Red-shirt freshman Brandon Costner (2.8 ppg, 2.6 rpg) is also eager to get back on the floor after missing all but five games last year with a stress fracture in his leg. Arguably the best of the three freshmen last year, Costner was a McDonald's All-American at Seton Hall Prep in Montclair, N.J. He has a basketball pedigree -- his father, Tony, was a second-round draft pick of the Washington Bullets and a long-time professional player in Europe.

Because Sendek employed a system that was based on the tenets of the Princeton offense, he recruited a lot of big guys who liked to play on the perimeter. Lowe wants to play a more transition-oriented style, which may be difficult given his lack of ball handlers.

"I like to get up and down the floor," Lowe said. "We still want to pull the ball out and run sets, but I like to set the pace. We don't expect a lot of three-point jack-ups."

He also plans to emphasize an aggressive defense, with a mix of zone and man-to-man options.

"We will try to change tempo in the game as much as we can," Lowe said. "We are not going to be a team that is just trapping the entire game, or just playing zone. We might need to change some things up to control the tempo."

And change is what this season is all about for the Wolfpack.

BLUE RIBBON ANALYSIS

BACKCOURT: C-
BENCH/DEPTH: C
FRONTCOURT: C-
INTANGIBLES: B


Lowe has immersed himself back in the NC State community, reaching out to former players and the community in a way that Sendek tried to do, but was never particularly successful in pulling off.

He has a gleeful, passionate personality that re-energized the supporters who found it easy to bash Sendek's recruiting and his style of play. But as next-door neighbors Krzyzewski and Williams both said over the summer, NC State had a good basketball coach, one who led the school to a school-record-tying five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

Because of the transition, it may be a while before Lowe can match that record. But, unlike Sendek if he had stayed, Lowe will have the undivided support of a fan base that is desperate to see its program back at the very top of the basketball world.

11/1/2006 6:38:03 PM

Quote :

""We don't expect a lot of three-point jack-ups.""

11/1/2006 6:51:09 PM

who is going tonight?

11/3/2006 3:49:00 PM

me

11/3/2006 3:57:29 PM

I'll be there as near the court as possible.

11/3/2006 4:09:04 PM

I dont know what I'll do if we get beat. I might just cry and sit in the stadium for a couple of hours.

11/3/2006 4:11:59 PM