50 days till the Red and White game.

http://www.gopack.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9200&KEY=&SPID=3731&SPSID=41961

We have two exhibition games before our season opener against Wofford. Northern State is the first exhibition game, and St. Augustine's is the second.

Wofford better be getting ready for the first official ass kicking in the Sidney Lowe era.

Go Pack! Errbody get Lowe! (can someone embed that ytmnd)

While not N.C. State related, this Daily Show clip on UMD's riots after their 2002 NCAA Championship is hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzJYqrteYYg

9/5/2006 8:57:59 PM

what would we be ranked with ced? top 15 im sure. its really sad.


with that said. prepare for gavin to dominate. we're gonna ride the chariot. O CHARIOT GIVE ME YOUR STRENGTH

9/5/2006 9:13:24 PM

where's Earl with his easy national championship prediction?

9/5/2006 9:19:40 PM

this year we finally have a better than zero percent chance of beating UNC

9/5/2006 9:27:04 PM

I still don't think we would have been top 20 with ced, not with no recruiting class to speak of, perhaps 22 or 23.

^What? Have you seen our team compared to their team?

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 9:28 PM. Reason : ]

9/5/2006 9:27:31 PM

who would stop gavin and ced as a tandom? then you have fells on the wing and atsur hittting 3s. that would be an usntopable team. the defense would be the best too with ced in the middle.

9/5/2006 9:42:06 PM

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"who would stop gavin and ced as a tandom?"

Aside from every team we played last year?

9/5/2006 9:44:11 PM

herb was too busy shooting 3s. and benching fells

9/5/2006 9:49:45 PM

you guys are delusional about gavin.

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 9:50 PM. Reason : ]

9/5/2006 9:50:02 PM

Quote :

"Aside from every team we played last year?"

to be fair, gavin was pretty beastly once he migrated away from herb's shackle-like offense


Teams will likely have more trouble with him with a coach who will hopefully let him play his game more than herb did(basically none)

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 10:05 PM. Reason : fsa]

9/5/2006 10:04:12 PM

are you counting down to the beginning of basketball season, or the end of it?

9/5/2006 10:04:53 PM

you know 7-9 in the ACC might actually be quite possible. i'd be very happy with 8-8 this year, which would probably give us an NCAA bid. anything above .500 in the ACC would be great for Lowe's first year. hopefully the year after we'd have some good experience in a senior in Grant, juniors in Fells and McCauley, RS sophmores in Costner, Ferguson, and Degand, and sophmores in Lewandowski and Horner. hopefully Sid can get Wright and Hickson and possibly Tracy Smith or McClain to go along with Johnny Thomas.

9/5/2006 10:10:28 PM

mccauley is a redshirt sophomore

and grant is a junior

and fells is a sophomore


[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 10:17 PM. Reason : ]

9/5/2006 10:14:22 PM

re-read my post. i said the year after, meaning next year. Ben McCauley came in with Fells and Costner. He's a sophmore and barring injury will probably not redshirt during his time here at State.

http://tinyurl.com/opeo4

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 10:23 PM. Reason : shorten the link]

9/5/2006 10:18:18 PM

Quote :

"hopefully the year after"

oh

i wondered how you could be that wrong

9/5/2006 10:18:59 PM

so quick to correct people. maybe you should actually read the pots first x3

9/5/2006 10:21:24 PM

yeah i'm one of the most dedicated fans on here. very few times am i wrong when it comes to recounting stats, events, and players.

9/5/2006 10:22:05 PM

Quote :

"maybe you should actually read the pots first"

9/5/2006 10:23:51 PM

^ yeah that did make me laugh a little. "pots"

9/5/2006 10:25:04 PM

big bad ernie found letters mismatched. i could never defeat him. hes just so smart!!!

9/5/2006 10:27:32 PM

hcnguyen please stop posting about Wolfpack sports.

Grant took over and scored a lot, but did we fucking win the games?

If Fells really was THAT good, don't you think he could see the court other than when we were up 40?

9/5/2006 10:51:19 PM

i don't much about fells because he played a total of 3 minutes last year

but the kid is obviously freakishly athletic

who knows if he'll be able to turn that into acc-calibur basketball skill

9/5/2006 10:55:07 PM

he played against texas and brought us back into the game almost singlehandedly with just him and grant running. then came out for barnes to reinsert the texas sized dick. nobody wants to rememebr this.

9/5/2006 10:59:21 PM

i coulnd't frogret it if i tired

9/5/2006 11:01:10 PM

yeah the combo of Bethel, Bennerman, Fells, Grant, and Ced was lethal last year against texas. Fortuantely for us, Herb put back in Evtimov and Atsur and they blew us the fuck out of the water in the second half. GG HERB

9/5/2006 11:14:40 PM

evtimov: another one of herb's great moves. i hope we stop recruiting from europe for good now.

9/5/2006 11:18:38 PM

Yeah, because Europeans obviously don't have any talent. I mean I couldn't dream of a scenario in which a team of Europeans beat a purely American team.

9/5/2006 11:19:58 PM

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"he played against texas and brought us back into the game almost singlehandedly with just him and grant running. then came out for barnes to reinsert the texas sized dick. nobody wants to rememebr this. "

This is probably the best post that hcnguyen has ever made.

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 11:22 PM. Reason : PS. It's because herb was racist.]

9/5/2006 11:21:19 PM

^^stop trolling me

the players we specifically have recruited have all been garbage, in case you havent noticed.

9/5/2006 11:22:28 PM

It's not trolling. It's setting ridiculous posts straight. Just because a few Europeans we have weren't all-ACC doesn't mean we shouldn't recruit there anymore.. In case you haven't noticed, Europeans can play some ball...

9/5/2006 11:23:52 PM

I keep hoping that some of our fucking brainless fans take the time in the off season to learn about the game of basketball.

Then shit like this gets going and I realize our image in the main stream media is all but true.

9/5/2006 11:26:56 PM

Our best player this coming year will be European.

Say what you want but no player hustles or busts his ass more than Atsur.

He will have to be our leader.

9/5/2006 11:27:03 PM

Typical Randy post:

1. Make ridiculous and false generalization.
2. Get called out.
3. Retreat back to a very specific, limited position that everyone agrees with. Act like it's the same as the generalization.
4. Suck Rush Limbaugh's drug-addled dick.

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 11:29 PM. Reason : ^wow.]

9/5/2006 11:28:33 PM

Yeah Wow is right. Atsur will have to be the man because I don't see Grant doing it.

9/5/2006 11:34:34 PM

That seems like a personal problem.

9/5/2006 11:37:49 PM

Grant may become our leading scorer and should be.

Im just saying Engin will have to be our leader and point.

9/5/2006 11:44:01 PM

less bitching back and forth, more basketball talk.

so apparently Northern State University is a university located in Aberdeen, South Dakota.

http://www.northern.edu/index.html
http://www.northern.edu/athletics/Depthome/mbb/HOME.html

They play in the Division-II of the NCAA. They led the Div-II in attendance last year. So at least we know that they're fans are passionate about basketball. Looks like there team is nothing but white dudes from the midwest. At least they have a good nickname in the Wolves.



here's there roster:
http://www.northern.edu/athletics/Depthome/mbb/Rosters/2006-07Roster.htm

let's get some chant ideas going, haha.

really though we shouldn't be too harsh on teams like this (unless the players ask for it). i mean they're coming all the way from South Dakota to get their ass handed to them, and they know this. be classy and give them applause at the end.

9/5/2006 11:46:01 PM

everyone just repeat "Schwan!" in weird voices like the MINE guy from finding nemo.

lame, i know

9/5/2006 11:54:04 PM

wow now i get it. i should be excited about our first exhibition game against a division 2 team from north dakota. hooray!

[Edited on September 5, 2006 at 11:57 PM. Reason : ]

9/5/2006 11:55:42 PM

nah you should get excited about the beginning of the Sidney Lowe era of NC State Basketball. imagine if he was to one day bring us a national championship, became one of the best coaches in NCAA history, and you could say that you saw the first ever game he coached at NC State. that would be something.

^also they're from South Dakota, not North Dakota.

[Edited on September 6, 2006 at 12:11 AM. Reason : ]

9/6/2006 12:08:39 AM

^^^^how in the hell does a basketball team not have a single black player?

9/6/2006 12:09:11 AM

[Edited on September 6, 2006 at 12:46 AM. Reason : "from where?"]

9/6/2006 12:45:07 AM

Quote :

"how in the hell does a basketball team not have a single black player?"

when you're a division II team for South Dakota

9/6/2006 12:55:35 AM

#54 looks kinda like Tim McVeigh

9/6/2006 8:45:07 AM

these next couple of years are going to be rough.

but as long as the fans are patient with Sidney and give him some time to rebuild, I think we'll have some great seasons in our future.

9/6/2006 8:54:53 AM

has anyone been able to buy tickets yet? everytime i try to buy them, i get the damn "please wait" page for an eternity

9/6/2006 9:26:30 AM

^^^Better keep an eye out for Ryder trucks.

9/6/2006 11:35:46 AM

Quote :

"these next couple of years are going to be rough. but as long as the fans are patient with Sidney and give him some time to rebuild, I think we'll have some great seasons in our future."

that sounds familiar

9/6/2006 11:36:46 AM

anyone else try to buy tickets yet? I'm calling the ticket office today during lunch.

nm....just use IE. they could have told me they don't support firefox for the purchasing process. I also ran into a problem updating my account information (keep telling me to fill in all required fields). I had to go to the my account page, hit ok, and then I was automatically forwarded to purchase the tickets.

[Edited on September 6, 2006 at 12:05 PM. Reason : retarded purchasing site]

9/6/2006 11:39:06 AM

48 days till the Lowe era kicks off.

9/7/2006 5:32:35 PM