In the technician Zach Tanned has our conference record as 13-6

3/17/2014 8:48:49 AM

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"There is phoenix rising -- surging Oklahoma State and Kentucky, both rounding back into form after some midseason bumps and bruises -- but no Phoenix. Wisconsin-Green Bay, which played four NCAA tournament teams and beat two of them (Tulsa and Virginia) is out, but an injury-depleted BYU, which lost 11 games, and an NC State that played hardly anyone, are in."

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/2014/story/_/id/10620278/the-ncaa-tournament-always-works-just-right

3/17/2014 9:30:55 AM

Lol. We played like.. 9-10 tournament teams? I mean we lost at least 7 but whatever

3/17/2014 9:33:33 AM

haters gonna hate

3/17/2014 9:46:30 AM

HOLY SHIT GREEN BAY PLAYED 4 TOURNAMENT TEAMS?

State played 4 tournament teams in the last 7 games.

(TBH i think UW-GB should have gotten in over BYU, although BYU probably gets in the same reason we got in - they had a lot of good wins on the road/not at home)

3/17/2014 9:53:15 AM

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"and an NC State that played hardly anyone, are in."

Missouri, Wake, Clemson and Miami were our only 4 losses to teams NOT going to the NCAA tournament.

Missouri was in December and was a close game and at the time Missouri was #25
Wake was a bad loss, but they also beat Duke and UNC in Winston-Salem, so we're not in bad company
Clemson was 3 days after our last second loss at Syracuse
Miami was 3 days after our overtime loss to UNC

We've played 13 games against opponents also going to the NCAAs this year: @Cincinnati, NC Central, Eastern Kentucky, @Tennessee, Pittsburgh, Virginia, @Duke, @UNC, @Syracuse, UNC, @Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Duke. In those games we're 4-9, and with a slightly better officiating should have been 6-7.

Hardly played anyone? Bitch please.

3/17/2014 10:13:35 AM

women should have nothing to do with men's sports. Let women commentate/write about women's sports and let men write/commentate about men's sports. I'll trade Jeff Goodman for Doris Burke.

3/17/2014 10:33:46 AM

Doris Burke has forgotten more about basketball that Jeff Goodman will ever know.

3/17/2014 10:47:46 AM

^ this

Goodman and his crew are sports shock jocks and not much else.

3/17/2014 10:48:27 AM

I'd trade Jeff Goodman for a bag of shit.

3/17/2014 10:53:05 AM

i wouldn't. a bag of shit has great fertilizer value.

i can't grow no tomatoes with goodman.

3/17/2014 10:55:17 AM

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"women should have nothing to do with men's sports. Let women commentate/write about women's sports and let men write/commentate about men's sports."

THIS x 1000





[Edited on March 17, 2014 at 10:57 AM. Reason : .]

3/17/2014 10:56:18 AM

There are probably plenty of women more than capable of covering mens athletics. ESPN managed to find an army of women who cannot.

3/17/2014 10:58:42 AM

or it could be that men don't like hearing women commentate on men's sports

3/17/2014 11:07:35 AM

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"i wouldn't. a bag of shit has great fertilizer value. i can't grow no tomatoes with goodman."

I don't think you understand how trades work, bro.

3/17/2014 11:11:02 AM

As a male, I'd rather hear Doris Burke's opinion than 90% of the rest of the dipshits at ESPN, male or female.

3/17/2014 11:14:05 AM

Isn't this the same women that called us UNC or the North Carolina State Tarheels while calling one of our games?

[Edited on March 17, 2014 at 11:17 AM. Reason : can't remember which one it was ]

3/17/2014 11:17:17 AM

I've always gotten the impression that ESPN is primarily a bunch of douchebags who totally do sex stuff together.

Also, whenever "motherfucker" is a go for TV, I've got a female friend who can talk sports. If you imagine she's a dude, it's not annoying at all.

3/17/2014 11:19:47 AM

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"I don't think you understand how trades work, bro."

dammit

still i think we all have the same opinion of goodman.

3/17/2014 11:21:56 AM

Looking back, how important was that ACC POY vote though? Think we really get in if Jabari ended up with the POY?

Huge for recruiting, huge for the program.

3/17/2014 11:24:47 AM

yeah, i think that was definitely a deciding factor. Thanks again TJ! We probably wouldn't have won half the games we did without him, and probably wouldn't have gotten into the tournament if he wasn't being recognized as one of the better ballers in the country.

3/17/2014 11:27:17 AM

uw-greenbay played 3 Division 2 teams.

3/17/2014 11:33:04 AM

^^
Keeley posted her POY candidate and made a snarky remark about who she thinks the Syracuse homers voted for. TJ winning by a huge margin more than answers that.

Dear Laura, almost everyone except your .142 drunk driving self self voted for TJW...

3/17/2014 11:43:15 AM

Back to State basketball, but statistics measures I think we had something like a ~2% chance of making the NCAA tournament before the ACCT. How did we really manage to get selected?

3/17/2014 12:15:39 PM

selection committee, cant predict people.

i'm sure it was a combination of our SoS (which seemed to be overlooked all season), Our close calls with cuse/unc, and tony buckets being an absolute stud. Also i think that win over 'cuse was more meaningful than most people think.

3/17/2014 12:24:59 PM

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"Isn't this the same women that called us UNC or the North Carolina State Tarheels while calling one of our games?"

you do realize that this happens probably 10 times a season, right? and that 99% of the time it's a dude making the same mistake

3/17/2014 12:42:58 PM

here comes objectivity

3/17/2014 12:47:11 PM

that newspaper article title was done on purpose


I don't remember what woman said it this year, but the comment was "North Carolina State Tarheels" and I have NEVER heard someone say that on the air before. She immediately realized what she had said and spent the next 2-3 minutes laughing about it. I've heard plenty of times, "The North Carolina Wolfpack." Never heard that before.




[Edited on March 17, 2014 at 12:49 PM. Reason : .]

3/17/2014 12:47:43 PM

what do you mean, "done on purpose"?

Yeah, i remember that game. Several times she said something like "i apologize, that was a big mistake, there are going to be a lot of wolfpack fans very unhappy with me"

i'd never heard of these guys Old Man Whickutt who are obviously pack fans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmn7Cg9GJDc

[Edited on March 17, 2014 at 1:10 PM. Reason : ]

3/17/2014 1:10:30 PM

I mean the person that wrote that article did that on purpose just to be a fucking troll. They knew exactly what they were doing. That wasn't an accident.

And yes, that was the game I was referring too.

[Edited on March 17, 2014 at 1:56 PM. Reason : .]

3/17/2014 1:56:30 PM

^i assume you're just assuming that? most journalists wouldn't purposely make an error (especially in the headline) when they know they'll definitely get called out and have their credibility questioned.

[Edited on March 17, 2014 at 2:01 PM. Reason : ]

3/17/2014 2:01:32 PM

and to use his logic concerning one female broadcaster misspeaking, all journalists are awful and shouldn't be journalists

3/17/2014 2:07:22 PM

^^ You'd be surprised how often copyeditors will mess around with headlines, etc., laugh about them, and then forget to correct them before it goes to print.

3/17/2014 2:22:06 PM

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"The bracket-predicting model developed by Jay Coleman, Mike DuMond, and Allen Lynch had another strong performance in 2014, and has now predicted 108 of 110 at-larges over the last three seasons. The only miss was N.C. State, which the model put outside of the bubble, in favor of California. This is a somewhat notable miss. Based on data from recent bracket selections, the committee has shown a small bias in favor of borderline squads in the Pac-12 , which the Dance-Card has attempted to account for. According to Professor Coleman, if this model adjustment were removed for this year, California would have fallen just barely below the bubble line, although Southern Miss, not N.C. State, would have moved up."

3/17/2014 2:37:01 PM

People still having trouble understanding SOS is a big deal...

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"Judging from the reaction of NC State players to hearing their name called during the selection show, they were as surprised as anyone to make the field, and they should have been. Little about their profile suggested they were worthy of beating out an SMU team ranked in the Top 25 as recently as Monday or a Green Bay team that dominated its league and beat Virginia in non-league play but stumbled in the Horizon semifinals. The four best wins NC State notched came against a fading Syracuse team, Pitt, Tennessee and Florida State, but the Wolfpack went just 3-8 against the RPI top 50. They also have three losses to teams outside the RPI top 100, one to NC Central, one to Wake Forest and one to Miami. With that many missed chances for marquee wins and that many bad losses, it would have been nice to see the committee reward the Mustangs or Phoenix for better seasons instead."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/three-things-the-selection-committee-got-right-and-three-it-got-wrong-021348203.html

3/17/2014 4:18:35 PM

greenbay played 3 division 2 teams.

3/17/2014 4:34:33 PM

all we need to do is beat xavier and st louis and make a run at Louisville and everyone will shut up

3/17/2014 4:45:31 PM

our SOS is SOOOOO much better than all those bubble teams that we beat out that it isn't even funny.

NCSU - 23
SMU - 135
Green Bay - 155
Louisiana Tech - 211


Hell, our resume is much better than Iowa's, yet somehow we are getting blitzed by this negative perception? We're 6-10 vs RPI Top 100...Iowa is 7-11. We have a better RPI and better SOS. We were 7-5 over our last 12, they were 4-8. So why, again, are we getting blitzed and they aren't?

3/17/2014 5:06:45 PM

Because we were picked to finish lower in the preseason and sportswriters never change their opinions. Same reason Jabari Parker got 25 ACC POY votes when it was clear to everyone with a fucking brain that TJW should have won it.

3/17/2014 5:20:55 PM

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"against a fading Syracuse team"

Not that it matters anymore but Syracuse fading had a lot to do with Grant's injury. Both times we played them, he was healthy and had monster games.

3/17/2014 5:22:27 PM

I love the fixation on Green Bay's win over Virginia.

Green Bay beat Virginia in early December, before Virginia had even figured out how to play basketball. Christ, Virginia wasn't even a ranked team until a few weeks ago. People need to stop acting like Green Bay beat the same "team" that just won the ACC Tournament. If Green Bay had to play Virginia now, they'd get run off the court.

3/17/2014 5:25:49 PM

All the espn I hear/watch keeps harping on momentum going into the tournament not being a factor and the results year after year seem to contradict that.

3/17/2014 5:40:39 PM

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/03/four-guys-who-made-n-c-states-reaction-to-the-ncaa-tournament-unforgettable/



[Edited on March 17, 2014 at 5:54 PM. Reason : haha]

3/17/2014 5:51:49 PM

Cat's new nickname

Not Excited At All Guy

3/17/2014 6:19:24 PM

^Lol at the Cat Barber thing. The dude just shows little to no emotion anytime I have ever seen him. Pretty sure that the first time I've ever seen him smile is in that video.

3/17/2014 6:20:37 PM

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"CAT ?@catbarber1994 20h @Kalen_Perry ain't no what everybody was yelling 4 at 1st lol"

bonus reward for checking out his twitter:

oops, full size one is way too big for this page and I forget how to resize in crazy code: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/440378571039965185/MpL0BtFa.jpeg

[Edited on March 17, 2014 at 6:35 PM. Reason : a]

3/17/2014 6:33:16 PM

http://tracking.si.com/2014/03/17/forbes-louisville-most-valuable-college-basketball-team/
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/emdm45ehefd/12-nc-state-wolfpack/

Not 100% sure of their methods, but Forbes has us as the 12th most valuable college basketball program, ahead of Illinois, Michigan, UT, and texas among others

3/18/2014 3:57:26 AM

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"The Wolfpack's rapid ascension, with the largest growth in value of any team on our list, ought to come as little surprise to anyone familiar with the school's recent financial success. NC State has nailed down a new multimedia rights deal (10 years, $49 million), agreed to a more valuable Adidas apparel agreement (four years, $7 million) and surpassed $1 million in licensing revenue for the first time in school history. "

I think a lot of it's based on ticket sales and endorsement deals. We've done ok ever since we left reynolds and these new deals are pushing us higher.

[Edited on March 18, 2014 at 4:38 AM. Reason : .]

3/18/2014 4:22:55 AM

Wallace's reaction is all:

3/18/2014 7:33:58 AM

^^

ticket sales, endorsement deals, and merch. breaking the $1million barrier in merch sales is huge.

But also, this is a solid argument against latching on to tradition and nostalgia at all costs. Reynolds was an amazing atmosphere, rivaling that of Cameron, but it was also holding us back. Duke being only two spots ahead of us despite far more success is evidence of that.

3/18/2014 9:31:29 AM