we almost p23ed ourselves

3/13/2007 10:02:35 PM

Thanks to Lindsey Lohan for the beauty tips.

3/13/2007 10:02:53 PM

^4 swearing was all, and not even at players really, just at the turn of events

[Edited on March 13, 2007 at 10:03 PM. Reason : ]

3/13/2007 10:03:04 PM

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"NC State 63, Drexel 56 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Engin Atsur and Ben McCauley each scored 16 points to lead weary North Carolina State to a 63-56 win over Drexel on Tuesday night in the first round of the NIT. Brandon Costner's three-point play late in the game sealed the win for the Wolfpack (19-15), who advanced to play the winner of the Marist-Oklahoma State game. The 10th-seeded Wolfpack knocked off three higher seeds in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament before losing to North Carolina in the championship game. Four exhilarating games in four days and their reward was a plane trip to Philadelphia. Coach Sidney Lowe left his lucky red blazer behind, but the Wolfpack didn't need it in this one - not with the Dragons (23-9) miserable shooting from the foul line down the stretch. Frank Elegar scored 24 points on 10-for-12 shooting but was overshadowed by a string of crucial misses from the line in the second half. Elegar missed eight of 12 overall, including two that could have put the Dragons ahead with 2:30 left. Instead, McCauley sank a free throw that made it 54-54 and Costner followed with his baseline layup and the free throw, and the Wolfpack's late-season surge continued for another game. Dominick Mejia added 11 points for the Dragons, who came in still angered over beig snubbed by the NCAA tournament selection committee."

[Edited on March 13, 2007 at 10:05 PM. Reason : quote]

3/13/2007 10:04:41 PM

It would be beyond cool to see the Wolfpack in Reynolds Friday night. Hopefully it would be a late game and tickets wouldn't be crazy.

3/13/2007 10:06:20 PM

also, the NIT-ology guy is a jackass

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"2 Florida St. 75 - 7 Toledo 65 / 1 West Virginia 65 - 8 Delaware St. 49 / 1 Mississippi St. 76 - 8 Mississippi Valley St. 54 / 2 Oklahoma St. 76 - 7 Marist 66 / 3 Michigan 66 - 6 Utah St. 60 / 3 Drexel 67 - 6 NC State 62 / 4 Massachusetts 75 - 5 Alabama 69."

looks like he'll be wrong about Bama and Ok St too

3/13/2007 10:08:21 PM

I think I saw that the line was Drexel -5, so his pick at least made some sense from that.

3/13/2007 10:11:02 PM

Wow pretty nice, considering all the talk of Drexel being dissed by the NCAA's

3/13/2007 10:13:11 PM

hah. it was -6.5 on bodog

3/13/2007 10:15:36 PM

I think we pretty much win this season now.

3/13/2007 10:34:48 PM

Honestly Drexel really was snubbed in the NCAA, even though they didn't win tonight. NCSU is obviously better, but NCSU definitely belongs in the NIT.

3/13/2007 10:35:29 PM

I think its great that we have a good chance at a 20 win season. That is quite an accomplishment considering we were supposed to be in the cellar of the ACC.

3/13/2007 10:36:01 PM

3/13/2007 10:37:31 PM

First off Drexel was not fucking snubbed. They lost to Old Dominion by 25 and 10. They lost to fucking Rider. We have just as good a resume as them, maybe better. We have what 5 top 25 wins?

Second, did we play this well or was Drexel that bad? I didn't get to see the game and I cannot tell by comments. Was this team REALLY NCAA caliber or not?

3/13/2007 10:53:19 PM

they really were. i honestly can't say they are much different than your average acc team. dominant post player inside. perimeter scorer outside. a bunch of fillers with athleticism.

3/13/2007 11:02:11 PM

if you ask me, both teams had shitty games. one of the lesser performances i've seen this season, and definitely the worst win.

i know, we're tired, five games in six days. but i'm just saying, we played like shit and still won, drexel did not get snubbed, they're not very good.

3/13/2007 11:21:08 PM

They were absolutely snubbed. They beat some decent teams (at Creighton, at Syracuse, at Villanova, at Vermont) and only a couple "bad" losses (Rider, William and Mary).

And I am not saying Drexel is better than NCSU. But, according to what they did during the season, they absolutely deserve to be in the big dance over teams like Nevada, Butler, Arkansas, and others).

And if you actually want to try and argue that any team with 15 losses (and some to HORRIFIC teams) deserves to get an at large bid, regardless of who they managed to knock off during the conference tourney..... there is absolutely no logic in that and I can't even make an intelligent argument against that.

3/13/2007 11:24:13 PM

Just got back from Drexel. Place was basically a big high school gym. It was hot as balls. I would say that state fans made up 1/7th of the crowd. Apparently Dennis Horner brought 40 people. They went nuts when he went into the game. Had a bunch of horner signs. The Drexel fans unfurled some huge banner at one point in the game, but I couldn't make out what it said.

Drexel fans were not classy in the slightest, but they were basically harmless. They shutup at the end, and we got the chant going. It was really loud when Drexel hit some of those clutch threes.

As far as their play, it looked like Eleger was their only real offensive player. I LOVE Dom Mejia's shot selection. Gave us the game. We looked a bit tired. We had some missed FTs and point blank shots. Costner phoned in most of the game until that clutch drive to the basket at the end. Hopefully we slowed it down just to save energy.

Also at the postgame handshakes, Grant had some greetings with Eleger, and Mejia talked to Levi Watkins a little bit.

Eleger has some Julius-Hodge-esque FT shooting form. He made more than I expected, but missed enough to lose the game. Think he missed a 1 and 1 that was huge.

[Edited on March 13, 2007 at 11:50 PM. Reason : sdf]

3/13/2007 11:46:44 PM

Sammy's was out of control tonight. I appreciated the "fast fight." lol

3/14/2007 12:08:37 AM

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"Honestly Drexel really was snubbed in the NCAA"

hahahaha, they were 1-5 against the top teams in the CAA

they didnt deserve a spot even if they did beat Cuse or whoever, they need a real gym

their record sucked although they have some decent players in their big men

3/14/2007 12:12:26 AM

whoa just found out i went to high school with this guy...random

http://sportsline.com/collegebasketball/players/playerpage/568811

3/14/2007 12:15:24 AM

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"they need a real gym"

or they could just play at the wachovia center like some teams

3/14/2007 12:16:27 AM

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"The Drexel fans unfurled some huge banner at one point in the game, but I couldn't make out what it said."

"You can't spell snUbbeD without DU"

Anybody else catch Sidney with the ear plugs [lazy and didn't read through thread]

3/14/2007 12:29:54 AM

^ maybe that whistle of his is doing some damage. I have never heard someone whistle that loud, he's practically got it down to an art form.

3/14/2007 12:32:26 AM

I think it had more to do with the bad acoustics and tight confines of the DAC. The ten rows behind the State bench were filled with "Philly's finest young minds".

My college choice came down to State or Drexel, so I have nothing but love for the Dragons, except for tonight.

3/14/2007 12:35:54 AM

awesome, we won!

was at work all night, so glad to hear of this...sadly i will probably be working again either fri or sat or whatever day the next game will be

3/14/2007 1:46:31 AM

next thread coming this afternoon

3/14/2007 6:11:23 AM

its pretty funny they raised such a big stink about getting snubbed, then lose in the first round of the NIT.

3/14/2007 8:21:50 AM

half of my good friends went to drexel. made sure to toss them an im, though he couldnt care less about bball.

3/14/2007 8:29:44 AM

not only did they get snubbed out of the tourney but then they have to play a team better than most teams in the tourney first round. lets not forget our record with atsur.

[Edited on March 14, 2007 at 9:27 AM. Reason : this was a legic ncaa game]

3/14/2007 9:27:09 AM

haha, David Thompson is quoted on Wiki in reference to the NIT...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Invitation_Tournament

Quote :

"Since the post-season NIT consists of teams who failed to receive a berth in the NCAA Tournament, the NIT has been humorously nicknamed the "Not Invited Tournament" or the "Not In Tournament". David Thompson, an All-American player from N.C. State, called the NIT "a loser's tournament" in 1975. It has also been seen as nothing more than a tournament to see who the "66th best team" in the country is (since there are now 65 teams in the NCAA Tournament). N.C. State, which had been the previous year's NCAA champion, refused to play in the tournament that year, setting something of a precedent. In succeeding years, other teams such as Oklahoma State, Louisville, Georgia Tech, and Georgetown have declined to play in the NIT when they did not make the NCAA tournament. "

[Edited on March 14, 2007 at 9:46 AM. Reason : .]

3/14/2007 9:45:24 AM

^^ I got a feeling we just bailed out the Selection Committee from more OMG YOU SUCK talk

3/14/2007 9:46:05 AM

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"half of my good friends went to drexel. made sure to toss them an im, though he couldnt care less about bball."

So, it looks like you have 2 good friends.

3/14/2007 9:50:51 AM

Does anyone have any idea where the second will be played? I can't find it anywhere. Maybe it hasn't been announced. I'm assuming not at the RBC Center since Groban will be there.

3/14/2007 9:55:51 AM

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"its pretty funny they raised such a big stink about getting snubbed, then lose in the first round of the NIT."

Too be fair, they lost in the first round to a team that just beat a 4,5, and 6 seed in the ncaa and took a good game to a 1 seed.

3/14/2007 9:58:31 AM

To be fair, teams from mid major conferences who don't make the tournament shouldn't ever bitch about it. If you can't win a conference like the colonial, then you don't have any argument about going to the tournament.

3/14/2007 10:03:41 AM

They won against Creighton, Villa, and Syracuse... and had 8 losses to mediocre at best mid major teams.

Only slightly redeeming factor is a 3-4 record against rpi top 50 but with their 4 other losses coming against just awful teams I don't see how you can really make a plee for the NCAA tourny... especially after losing first round in the NIT (although I think they were unlucky to get matched up with us being a #6 seed).

I mean seriously they lost to Rider and William and Mary...

3/14/2007 10:07:05 AM

them free throws cost them the damn game
you cant dance shooting shit like that

3/14/2007 10:08:28 AM

pretty good auto-updating bracket in PDF format

(the link will automatically update to the updated PDF file)

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/nit/sports/m-nit/auto_pdf/2007-Bracket.pdf

3/14/2007 10:12:43 AM

Lots of teams had more and worse losses than Drexel's 2 bad losses, with not as good of wins as NCSU had. Plus, trying to justify the selection committees decision by this game is just stupid. As people have said, NCSU (the one that has played the last week) is definitely a Top 25 caliber, NCAA team, not a team that barely limped in to the NIT. Plus, you have to look at motivations.... DU (regardless of how anyone feels) thinks they got screwed by the committee, so they could probably care less about the NIT, while (considering our season) this was a blessing to even be playing (ie we lose to Duke or probably Virginia, we're watching the NIT on TV too.

3/14/2007 10:54:35 AM

Quote :

""It was like a high school gym," Atsur said. "

3/14/2007 1:04:13 PM

^^^looks like if we beat marist we will get about 4-6 days to rest before our rematch with WVU. that ought to give us enough time to rest/heal and get ready for revenge.

3/14/2007 2:25:13 PM

if we win we have a good shot at WVU
that 1-3-1 will not fuck with us as much this time around
hell, we even ran a little 1-3-1 last night

3/14/2007 2:28:05 PM

plus having atsur this time around will make things different as well. even if he is sore.

3/14/2007 2:33:54 PM

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"Dominick Mejia"

didn't he transfer from State ?

3/14/2007 3:05:46 PM

Yes, he did

3/14/2007 3:06:11 PM