I think we played well today, considering. Duke's 9-0 run just killed us, and we were too tired to respond. Duke did a good job guarding warren and forcing us to use other players. Turner having to shoot so much was proof of that

3/15/2014 5:28:14 PM

turner went 2-10 last i checked. those misses turned into run outs

3/15/2014 5:28:48 PM

geez yall... its not like duke sucked today. they were very good on top of being a better team.

3/15/2014 5:29:02 PM

Dick vitality the big vote for ncstate to dance

3/15/2014 5:29:24 PM

with all that said if we just rebounded their free throws it would be a 3 point game

3/15/2014 5:29:36 PM

Fuck...see you guys in the NIT. Will there be any games in Texas? aaronburro's ex is apparently the local train stop, and I wouldn't mind getting my knob cleaned and catching a State game in the lone star state.

3/15/2014 5:29:48 PM

we fixed our free throw defense.

3/15/2014 5:31:16 PM

LOL. TWW'bers, when you respond to a troll like aaronburrito its like their porn. It makes their small dicks harder and harder so the more you respond the harder it gets until they climax which could take days. Just ignore them.

3/15/2014 5:35:26 PM

Turner crashed back to reality with a 2 for 10 brickfest in the most important game of the season

3/15/2014 5:35:31 PM

Did we at least beat the spread?

3/15/2014 5:35:49 PM

yrey, u mad?

3/15/2014 5:36:21 PM

3/15/2014 5:36:45 PM

Once we stopped the bleeding it was a decent last 5 minutes. I don't understand why coach didn't tell them to stop it with the 3s and just keep pounding underneath.

3/15/2014 5:38:12 PM

yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I expected when we down by 7 that we'd start jackin threes, and that's what we did.

3/15/2014 5:39:26 PM

Nice defensive scheme, Gottfried

3/15/2014 5:39:30 PM

Good job Wolfpack, good effort Wolfpack.

Lets not play on Thursday next time k?

3/15/2014 5:39:58 PM

It's going to be hard to get a top 4 seed with unc, Duke, cuse, Louisville, Pitt, etc.

That being said, we should never play on Wednesday.

3/15/2014 5:41:58 PM

problem is every single acc team is underrated which is fucking bullshit. duke and uva should get with a 1 seed a 2 seed and 3 seeds for cuse and carolina.

pitt should be ranked top 25.

there is no way we are worse than the aac. rpi/bpi is flawed. acc is not much worse than the best conferences.

3/15/2014 5:45:54 PM

When there are 16 teas will it not be a 4 day tournament with 0 byes? No one will play on Wednesday.

3/15/2014 5:48:16 PM

nah, they'll probably keep this format, as that's how the big least (used to) and the sec operate

3/15/2014 5:50:03 PM

Wait, how will you schedule like, 8 games in a single day?

3/15/2014 5:52:40 PM

we should have the brooklyn region and the manhattan region

3/15/2014 5:53:52 PM

ncaa next four out:
cal
mizzou
nc state
st. johns

at least our name was mentioned in bubble talk

[Edited on March 15, 2014 at 5:57 PM. Reason : .]

3/15/2014 5:57:08 PM

3/15/2014 5:59:09 PM

Quote :

"8:30 p.m. NIT Selection Show ESPNU"

3/15/2014 5:59:58 PM

It would be on ESPNU.

Fitting for us.

3/15/2014 6:00:44 PM

The Wake loss
The Syracuse loss
The UNC loss

One of them, just one of them yeah?

3/15/2014 6:01:42 PM

I think our only slim bit of hope is the NCAA thinks TJ as acc POY deserves a chance in tourney

3/15/2014 6:09:59 PM

Everything about Duke is so predictable, you'd think someone would catch on. I mean, that just goes to show how much of that is sheer talent now. Players getting lost in the Duke System and never being a singular star isn't a thing anymore.

I want an NC STATE- NIT CHAMPS 2014 shirt.

3/15/2014 6:15:56 PM

Is Tennessee making the dance this year? Tough loss to UF bro

3/15/2014 6:17:52 PM

Are you retarded or do you just not read my posts? Is this a desperate attempt to get me to Facebook you to prove it? I'm not going to make out with you. Where did I post about Tennessee ever?

Why would some Tennessee fan (that you apparently think I'm an alias for?) pay money to only ever talk about NC State?

[Edited on March 15, 2014 at 6:21 PM. Reason : H]

3/15/2014 6:20:11 PM

Defense doomed us. We didn't seem to know how to handle the damn ball screen and rotating defense behind that. So, Duke was able to beat us with basic plays and there was little chance of them turning it over.

Guard play killed us this year. Lewis gets the ball to the right place at the right time, but sucks at everything else. Cat stagnates the offense, turns it over a lot, and loses his man on defense. If either of them learns to shoot a 3pointer, that will help our cause immensely next year.

In this particular game, it took us way too long to adjust to Duke triple teaming Warren. We maybe ran 2 plays the second half that took advantage of the extra coverage on Warren.

3/15/2014 6:22:53 PM

Barber will be most improved next year. Has to be. He needs to find a 3 point shot if he's gonna survive.

3/15/2014 6:26:10 PM

^^^ & ^
Shut up you Tennessee hick!

[Edited on March 15, 2014 at 6:31 PM. Reason : ]

3/15/2014 6:31:18 PM

The silver lining of this loss is that Jibbles is back

3/15/2014 6:36:49 PM

It seemed like our best offense when Warren was triple teamed was for him to just throw it up on the rim and then crash the boards. He's not really a capable distributor and we just don't have a game plan that doesn't include him taking 20 shots.

3/15/2014 6:44:04 PM

Warren being tripe teamed led to those Turner shots. Not our day.

And lots of buzz on twitter about us being a play in team.

Hope.

3/15/2014 6:52:30 PM

https://twitter.com/ryantice/status/444970632292630528

Joe Lunardi has us in as a #12 seed...

Twitter is also blowing up about us getting in.

Coach K and Dickie V said we should be in - for whatever that's worth.

[Edited on March 15, 2014 at 7:22 PM. Reason : .]

3/15/2014 7:06:48 PM

Wake AD Ron Wellman is in charge of the Selection Committee this year

someone needs to send him some NOTTY DODDY

3/15/2014 7:08:38 PM

^^oh man...getting my hopes up and stuff

3/15/2014 7:14:32 PM

Bubble is soft

3/15/2014 7:16:38 PM

Quote :

"NC State had a chance to do something special this weekend and who were we to doubt the Wolfpack? They brought ACC Player of the Year T.J. Warren to Greensboro, N.C., an efficient offensive force averaging 25 points and seven rebounds per game this season, who finished the regular season with back-to-back 41- and 42-point outbursts against Pitt and Clemson. On Friday, NC State upended Syracuse, setting up a chance to knock off Duke and force themselves back into the bubble discussion in a very real way. (Or, even better, a chance to win the outright bid in Sunday's tourney final.) The Wolfpack's offense scored 1.22 points per trip against Duke on Saturday; Warren finished with 21 and eight. But they allowed 1.41 points per trip. Four Blue Devils (Jabari Parker, Rasheed Sulaimon, Rodney Hood and Quinn Cook) finished in double figures. And so it was that NC State's utterly nonexistent defense fittingly bit Mark Gottfried's team one final time. NC State will go to the NIT; NC State fans will hope Warren ignores the NBA for one more season. That leaves the ACC with just five sure bids. The sixth, Florida State, is likely out of the NCAA tournament as of Saturday night. The Seminoles can only hope the committee sees things differently. "

3/15/2014 7:25:05 PM

toledo will lose and fuck us

3/15/2014 7:25:45 PM

Lunardi also has Louisville as a 4 seed in his latest bracked

FWIW

3/15/2014 7:28:21 PM

Quote :

" ESPN's Joe Lunardi currently has NC State in the NCAA Tournament as a No. 12 seed, open vs. Oklahoma in Spokane: http://t.co/vOatl8kTtj — The Wolfpacker (@TheWolfpacker) March 15, 2014 "

Quote :

" Overhearing bunch of bracketology talk in media room. Takeaway: NC State has a chance to make NCAA field. — ACC Now (@accnow) March 15, 2014 "

Quote :

" Tell me #NCState isn't an #NCAA tourney team? I don't care what Lunardi or analytics nerds like @kenpomeroy say ... It is. — Star-News ACC (@starnewsacc) March 15, 2014 "

Quote :

" Coach K also told Gottfried he hopes NC State gets into NCAAs. K: "They’d be a tough out. I wouldn’t want to play them." — Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) March 15, 2014 "

Quote :

" "@ESPNCBB: "NC State belongs in the dance." - @DickieV" #ncstbracketfacts — Nima Omidvar (@NimaOmidvar) March 15, 2014 "

[Edited on March 15, 2014 at 7:29 PM. Reason : fuckin' scripts man]

3/15/2014 7:28:26 PM

nah, FSU is better than us. RPI and SOS says so.

3/15/2014 7:29:26 PM

Nima brings it with the twitter game

3/15/2014 7:29:33 PM

Way too focused on grilling steaks to try and get my hopes up.

3/15/2014 7:34:02 PM

I think it was put in there by mistake. Should've been North Dakota State.

God. Dammit.

3/15/2014 7:39:04 PM

The NCAA should let us in just because we make great TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HVzZBCG9j8

3/15/2014 7:39:43 PM