NC State (18-10, 7-6)
	vs
	Clemson (14-13, 6-7)
	Saturday, February 25th, 2:30pm TV: ACC Network LIVE WEB STREAMING: In ACC territory | Out of ACC territory

Clemson season statistics (NCAA rank):
Points per game: 64.3 (254th)
Rebounds per game: 32.7 (260th)
Assists per game: 12.6 (197th)
FG%: .432 (190th)

Clemson schedule to date:
Gardner-Webb W 65-44
@ Citadel W 73-50
Charleston L 72-69
Coastal Carolina L 60-59
Furman W 59-49
@ Iowa W 71-55
South Carolina L 58-55
@ Arizona L 63-47
Winthrop W 60-40
Alabama State W 70-45
vs UTEP L 61-48
vs Southern Illinois W 83-75 OT
@ Hawaii L 75-68
East Tennessee State W 65-58
Florida State W 79-59
@ Boston College L 59-57
#6 Duke L 73-66
@ Miami (FL) L 76-73
Georgia Tech W 64-62
Wake Forest W 71-60
@ #18 Virginia L 65-61
@ Virginia Tech L 67-65
Maryland L 64-62
@ Wake Forest W 78-58
#22 Virginia W 60-48
@ #7 North Carolina L 74-52
@ Georgia Tech W 56-37

2/22/2012 10:20:32 PM

W

2/22/2012 10:21:19 PM

iop1

win

2/22/2012 10:21:47 PM

eeeh W!

2/22/2012 10:22:05 PM

bout fuckin time

2/22/2012 10:38:00 PM

Onward and Upward. I am actually debating driving to this game.

2/22/2012 10:45:03 PM

how can i watch this?

2/22/2012 10:58:55 PM

Hoping for a W.

2/22/2012 11:07:59 PM

please to win

2/22/2012 11:14:06 PM

Will be at the game. Clemson is pretty terrible. Plz 2 win

2/22/2012 11:22:12 PM

they've had a lot of close conference losses (and wins). and they beat virginia and stomped fsu.

win.

2/22/2012 11:25:31 PM

Must win. Lose here and tied with them and Maryland.

2/22/2012 11:41:01 PM

finally done with the gauntlet of rape...let's get this W.

2/22/2012 11:51:02 PM

Clemson lives off points inside the....ah fuck posting this in every game thread.

be nice to see the Pack destroy an ACC team and win comfortably on the road, but not gonna happen.

this will be a tight game with a run here and a run there, in the end Tanner Smith bitch slaps Scott Wood, but Zo finally gets an "as time expires" shot that looks good all the way, if it goes we when by 1 if not we lose.

2/22/2012 11:51:07 PM

Quote :

"this will be a tight game with a run here and a run there, in the end Tanner Smith bitch slaps Scott Wood, but Zo finally gets an "as time expires" shot that looks good all the way, if it goes we when by 1 if not we lose."

decided to keep the typo. more epic with it

2/23/2012 12:01:57 AM

Clemson lives off points inside the arc. I doubt they get those against us.

They don't shoot threes at all. That's our main weakness defensively.

Defensively they are horrid.

They are hopelessly short and have zero depth.

I like NC State vs the spread. This has all the makings of a 30+ point game that might only be a 15 point spread.

2/23/2012 12:51:45 AM

if we don't win it's NIT time.

we have to win the next three plus at least one if not two in the ACCT to go to the NCAA

Clemson is more likely to get an "upset" than VTech. the Miami game is the real deal.

Quote :

"GAUNTLET OF RAPE"

[Edited on February 23, 2012 at 1:54 AM. Reason : lol]

2/23/2012 1:53:29 AM

I think they actually have a little bit of momentum going into this game after the UNC game... played hard all game and if they put in half the intensity they did against Carolina in the Clemson game, it'll be a win.

2/23/2012 2:02:34 AM

Quote :

"Onward and Upward. I am actually debating driving to this game."

Have fun with that! I drove to Charlotte to see fam, and then drove to Clemson the next morning for the our football game vs. them in 2010. Horrible drive. Nothing along the highways but trees and it's like a BILLION Big Lots everywhere in and around Clemson. Oh yeah, and they have grocery stores that are all decked out in Clemson colors/logos/etc.

[Edited on February 23, 2012 at 2:33 AM. Reason : V True, but that wasn't the only place. And that one store was like a good 5+ miles from campus.]

2/23/2012 2:18:06 AM

we have a mcdonalds devoted to nc state....

2/23/2012 2:27:56 AM

Quote :

"Nothing along the highways but trees"

Sounds a lot like a little place I know. You might have heard of it. It's called North Carolina.

2/23/2012 5:53:39 AM

Coin flip, this'n

2/23/2012 6:49:07 AM

I may watch this one
Feeling pretty good about our chances

2/23/2012 7:21:12 AM

LOL at people who think this is going to be some easy win. Clemson has played better within the ACC this year than we have and are a much better defensive team than us. They've lost a lot of close games and they always play significantly better at home. State will need to play well to get this win and hope Clemson continues to suck on offense

One advantage State will have is that Clemson is small and hopefully that means Howell/Leslie won't get into foul trouble. If Howell can play 30 minutes, I like State's chances much better.

Clemson = 71
State = 69

State locks up the NIT bid.

2/23/2012 7:22:56 AM

Quote :

"we have a mcdonalds devoted to nc state...."

Really? When did this happen??

2/23/2012 8:15:12 AM

Quote :

"if we don't win it's NIT time. "

a better way of looking at this perhaps:
how far are we from counting down wins to be a lock for at least the NIT?

[Edited on February 23, 2012 at 8:29 AM. Reason : ']

2/23/2012 8:28:47 AM

^^it's the mcd's on western blvd...so, years ago i think

didn't they renovate/build it or something about 3 or 4 years ago?

[Edited on February 23, 2012 at 8:43 AM. Reason : ]

2/23/2012 8:42:25 AM

This game is more dangerous than it looks on paper. I hope we win, but Clemson has had our number for a while.

2/23/2012 10:27:05 AM

plz2win

2/23/2012 10:33:38 AM

We never seem to match up well with these guys. Littlejohn isn't the easiest place to play either. Only two of their conference losses have come at home. They beat FSU by 20 there and lost to Duke by 7.

Going to be a lot tougher than people think.

2/23/2012 11:10:28 AM

Just remembered Bryan Narcisse exists. Fuck that guy.

2/23/2012 11:30:32 AM

Quote :

"Sounds a lot like a little place I know. You might have heard of it. It's called North Carolina."

2/23/2012 2:06:59 PM

2/23/2012 2:22:52 PM

its amazing that we're only 1 game ahead of Clemson in the standings now.

2/23/2012 3:09:56 PM

^you must be new to ncstate basketball

this is one of our best years in 25 years btw :|

2/23/2012 3:27:33 PM

^no, I understand completely. Just saying...

2/23/2012 3:28:02 PM

Taken from twitter, https://twitter.com/#!/austin_johnson:

Quote :

" Aside from UNC & Duke, Clemson's five other ACC losses have all all come by four points or less. Outscored by 13 total points in those Ls. Close losses are really the story of Clemson's season. 1-8 in games decided by five points or less. State is 7-3, by my count."

2/23/2012 3:35:53 PM

if anybody is going to the game, please wear an NCSU football jersey

2/23/2012 3:44:05 PM

lol in the last 20 years we've reached 7 wins six times counting this season

2/23/2012 3:45:57 PM

^ yeh i wasn't joking around when i said this year is one of our best in the past 2 or 3 decades

2/23/2012 3:59:07 PM

2/23/2012 4:07:38 PM

Quote :

"I hope we win, but Clemson has had our number for a while."

maybe 11-12 is the year of bucking this trend.

2/23/2012 5:14:51 PM

let's not get greedy

i'll take football for now. we gotta start walking in these sports before we run.

that said. We win by more than 10.

2/23/2012 7:18:06 PM

it's not like clemson basketball is good or anything, though.

no need to be scared of this team.

2/23/2012 8:06:30 PM

2/23/2012 8:18:12 PM

NIT or Bust!

2/24/2012 10:04:23 PM

iop1 for the first time this season.

We got this. Pack by 12

2/25/2012 2:20:04 AM

I could honestly see us going 1-2 over the next 3 . Hoping for 3-0 though and will be tuning in at 2:30 tomorrow!

2/25/2012 3:46:12 AM

^ what about 2-1 or 0-3?

2/25/2012 7:05:24 AM

what about 3 snow cancellations?

2/25/2012 9:08:48 AM