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NC State Hosts the Virginia Cavaliers
When: Saturday January 3 – 11:00 AM Where: Lenovo Center TV: ESPN2 Opponent: Virginia Cavaliers Prediction – KenPom (KP) / Bart Torvik (BT): NC State 80-77 / NC State 80-76 Wolfpack Snapshot: Wolfpack Season So Far: KenPom Snapshot: Excellent progress report! The defense being ranked higher than the offense was a surprise. What’s On the Line? ACC Net Rankings: […]
Happy New Year to you and your Darrion Williams press conference questions
Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like Will Wade has been a little too much so far this season, overcooked for no apparent reason at all, whether that was when he was getting those silly technical fouls early on, or more recently getting On One after games—after games State won, for god’s sake! Like, […]
Strike Up the Band! Happy New Year! The Pack Wins 70-57 Over Wake Forest
Game Summary: You always worry about the games around the holidays, are the players distracted, will they maintain their quality of play? It did not appear that way early. To quote the great Lyle Lovett, that game was “ugly from the front.” However, the Wolfpack was the more talented team and it showed. They built […]
Game thread: Wake Forest vs. NC State
Time to get league play started, finally. Deacs vs. Pack Tip time: Noon ET TV: ESPN2 (Kevin Brown, Debbie Antonelli) Online streaming: WatchESPN
NC State has 13 players heading for the portal (so far)
With just a few days until the portal window opens, NC State officially has 13 players who’ve announced their intent to transfer and cast their fates to the wind and/or a Michigan directional school. There will be more, I’m sure. I mean, it’s not like everybody is just going to decide to stop tampering. What […]
New Year’s Eve Hoops! NC State Hosts Wake Forest
When: Wednesday December 31 – 12:00 PM Where: Lenovo Center TV: ESPN2 Opponent: Wake Forest Demon Deacons Prediction – KenPom (KP) / Bart Torvik (BT): NC State 85-76 / NC State 86-76 Wolfpack Snapshot: Wolfpack Season So Far: Coach Wade after the Ole Miss win: “We’re not where we need to be. We’re not where we want to be. […]
Is this too many balloons?
Athletics departments face a number of existential questions these days. Fortunately, none of them have to do with money. In this era of unlimited official and unofficial recruiting visits, football programs must confront one particularly essential matter: how many balloons is the right amount of balloons? I think everyone understands that, in order to be […]
Cole Cloer Enrolls For Spring Semester
Wolfpack commit Cole Cloer injured his knee in practice before the season started at IMG Academy. He, unfortunately, will have to miss the season to rehabilitate that knee. Because of that, he has decided to enroll for the spring semester at NC State to allow himself the opportunity to work with the NC State staff […]
Noah Rogers planning to enter the portal
NC State’s depth at wide receiver took another hit this week with the news that Noah Rogers is planning to hit the portal after two seasons with the Wolfpack. I wouldn’t be terribly concerned about this development if Terrell Anderson were returning, but now State is facing the task of replacing its top four receivers. […]
The Out of Conference Schedule is Complete: Player Snapshots
In the most recent post, I complained about Williams and Arceneaux, enough said. Paul (47 points!) McNeil is getting the local and national media treatment right now. Let’s look at the rest of the key players. Caveat: This is a report card on 13 games, 6 against Q3 / Q4 opponents, compared to full seasons. […]
Terrell Anderson set to transfer
Merry Christmas, everyone—I hope you like crap! NC State is going to lose its most talented wide receiver for the second straight year, as Terrell Anderson is heading out the door when the portal opens in January. Anderson led the Wolfpack in receiving yards this season. If I remember correctly, Anderson picked NC State over […]
The Out of Conference Schedule is Complete: Analytics / NET Snapshot
The non-conference season is over, and without going too far out on a limb, I feel comfortable saying that no one is wildly impressed with the results. The preseason bravado has faded into the past, and reality is slapping the fanbase in the face with a wet glove. Nobody is suggesting that the Will Wade […]
NC State’s revenue distribution breakdown for 2025-26 revealed
A big tip of the hat to Noah Fleischman of The Wolfpacker, who FOIA’d NC State for information on how it is distributing its pool of $20.5 million in revenue sharing money to its programs. The allocations are pretty standard as far as it goes, but these figures did help answer a few lingering questions […]
NC State Beats Ole Miss 76-62 – Gets First P4 Win
Overview: If NC State can bottle up the first half and replicate it, this team will be good. Nice to see a hint of the potential, even without the preseason ACC POY contributing to the score. Game Summary: The first half was the first time we’d seen both the NC State offense and defense playing […]
NC State picks up tough 68-59 win at Davidson
Zam Jones provided the kill shot on Sunday afternoon, burying a three with 33 seconds to go and the shot clock winding down to give NC State a 65-59 advantage. It’s not surprising that she was up to the moment, as she played an outstanding game. The Pack made the key plays in crunch time—a […]
Game thread: Ole Miss vs. NC State
Winning this game sure would be handy! Rebels vs. Wolfpack Tip time: 1 p.m. ET TV: ESPN (Karl Ravech, Jimmy Dykes) Online streaming: WatchESPN
Highlights! It’s a bowl game to savor, finally
People laughed when I said I was going to build a shrine to the completely real and totally not made-up pirate, Gasparilla, whose presence it is said can be felt throughout the creaky bones of ancient Raymond James Stadium. (It is very bad to steal Gasparilla’s rum. VERY BAD.) And I saw no pregame analysis […]
NC State Takes on Ole Miss in Greensboro
When: Sunday December 21 – 1:00 PM Where: First Horizon Coliseum Greensboro NC TV: ESPN2 Opponent: Ole Miss Rebels (SEC Conference) Prediction – KenPom (KP) / Bart Torvik (BT): NC State 79-73 / NC State 79-73 Wolfpack Snapshot: Wolfpack Season So Far: Coach Wade from the Texas Southern postgame press conference: “We gave up too many points. Too many […]
NC State rolls Memphis in Gasparilla Bowl, 31-7
Well hot damn, NC State won a bowl game. Somebody get the e confetti machines out of storage, stat. Should we have a parade? Okay, maybe not a parade. State set the tone with a touchdown drive right off the bat and took a lead it would never relinquish, and isn’t it nice when one […]
Game thread: Memphis vs. NC State
Time for the biggest game of the year that’s themed around a mythical pirate. Tigers vs. Wolfpack Kickoff: 2:30 p.m. ET TV: ESPN (Anish Shroff, Andre Ware, Paul Carcaterra) Online streaming: WatchESPN
NC State puts a wallopin’ on Georgia Tech, 87-58
NC State put together its second-best shooting performance of the season yesterday, while Georgia Tech, well … uh, Georgia Tech was a functional basketball team for 20 minutes! That’s something. The problem for the Jackets was the other half of the game—NC State won the second and third quarters by a combined score of 51-14. […]
So long and thanks for all the yards
Hollywood Smothers is striking while the iron is hot, opting to put his name in the transfer portal when it opens next month and also test the NFL Draft. I don’t think this decision comes as a terrible surprise to anybody after he chose to walk on Senior Night. He is at the peak of […]
Memphis and its offense offer plenty of concerns for NC State
After a proper incubation period of four-to-six years, a Memphis head coach hatches into a power-conference head coach, and regrettably for the current edition of the Tigers, this process recently came to its natural conclusion once more. Ryan Silverfield is the head man at Arkansas now, and he took several of his Memphis assistants with […]
So your basketball team has a major problem
NC State beat Texas Southern by a bunch of points, as it was supposed to, and did that without Darrion Williams, but the defensive effort in the second half especially was not good. Will Wade is just a little fed up about watching the same mistakes happen over and over. Same guys, who make mistakes […]
NC State Dominates Texas Southern 108-72
Overview: Paul McNeil got himself in the record books tonight. His 11 made 3PT shots are the most in NC State history, breaking Rodney Monroe’s record of 9 and ties the ACC record, and those 47 points put him in very good company in the Wolfpack record books as well. Game Summary: In the pregame […]
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