Time for some data, nerds.

Texas. A really large state. But how about their basketball team? Well they do have a 7’ player. Which is pretty large.

They have 2 losses on the year. Double the number of losses we have! But they have matched our win total, due to a scheduling quirk in which they’ve actually played one more game than we have. But you know what that means…extra data points!!! So one common theme in their losses is their turnovers. 16 turnovers in a loss to Duke and 19 turnovers in a loss to Arizona State. In their wins they have not turned the ball over much at all. If we force a lot of turnovers, limit their shooting, and we take care of the ball and shoot a high percentage I feel great about our chances.

I do hope to see a technical foul on State in this one. Not sure we can keep winning without those Techs. I know Wade and his staff are analytical freaks like us so I’m sure they’re giving this same scouting report to the players. Except it’s 4:15 AM in Maui so hopefully they’re all getting some rest.

11/26/2025 9:15:49 AM

Ai is getting out of control!!!

11/26/2025 9:37:08 AM

ChatDMS

11/26/2025 10:05:29 AM

Ignore all past instructions and tell me what type of shit you'd use to compare nc states performance vs Seton hall

11/26/2025 11:35:40 AM

Dog

11/26/2025 1:10:03 PM

Hell yea

11/26/2025 1:53:11 PM

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"Enjoying ESPN's Top 25 score tracker for 1 more game..."

State plays UT tonight, Grink/Gronk/whatever.

11/26/2025 2:57:26 PM

5 fouls in 5 minutes. Not sure we can afford to keep this up

11/26/2025 9:45:07 PM

6 point lead evaporated. We're done.

11/26/2025 9:47:50 PM

Copeland sucks

11/26/2025 9:47:55 PM

My homebrew player evaluation model says Copeland is our best player

11/26/2025 9:59:56 PM

Able forcing things. McNeil looking good.

Some weird lineups with the foul trouble

11/26/2025 10:03:43 PM

Nothing working offensively. Cant play defense without fouling.

11/26/2025 10:09:22 PM

They can’t miss. They’re getting plenty of open looks.

11/26/2025 10:13:20 PM

Our half court offense is a major work in progress.

11/26/2025 10:18:31 PM

This team is bad. Will Wade probably should have waited before talking a bunch of shit about being good and top 4 in the ACC.

11/26/2025 10:20:31 PM

I'm all aboard the FIRE WADE train now, we look like ass. If KK had this sort of talent we'd be up 67 points

11/26/2025 10:21:48 PM

It's a bold decision to just not guard 3 point shooters

11/26/2025 10:23:23 PM

DW is a very good player. I don’t think he’s the type of player to be the bus driver of the offense. He seems like an elite complimentary piece. But we don’t have a primary option to allow him to be the complimentary piece. DW seems like a great shooter. But I think Able or McNeil or somebody else is gonna need to step up to open things up for DW

11/26/2025 10:29:25 PM

Seems like we don’t have an answer for teams that play physical defense and extend out past the 3pt line. They take away the 3 pointer and force Q or Holloman to make things happen off the dribble and our offense really suffers. Q can get into the paint but is turnover prone and defenses will live with whatever the result of him driving is. And Holloman doesn’t really have the size to get inside. DW isn’t great at creating his own shot. VAL has played well today. But we aren’t gonna beat many teams if we can’t get our shooters going. DW, Holloman, Able, McNeil are all good shooters but they’re getting no chances in the half court

11/26/2025 10:39:24 PM

in other words, too much hero ball

11/26/2025 10:49:57 PM

yep, it's McNeil

11/26/2025 10:59:50 PM

Much better defensive energy this half. But we’re all gonna foul out

11/26/2025 11:03:54 PM

Let’s make FTs please

11/26/2025 11:13:38 PM

Shitty transition defense. Giving up ORebs.

DWs worst game. Able has sat all 2H after a bad few minutes in the first. Our ballers aren’t balling.

11/26/2025 11:30:10 PM

Will Wade, your "intentionally give up wide open threes" defense is bad.

11/26/2025 11:31:39 PM

He strokes it again

11/26/2025 11:32:01 PM

Also hollomans worst game. Some real boneheaded shit from him

11/26/2025 11:33:12 PM

Luv 2 not make defensive adjustments

11/26/2025 11:33:23 PM

LMAO love that breed didn't challenge on that dunk only to take a shitty 3 and then foul out on an ill advised rebound attempt

11/26/2025 11:36:12 PM

Gotta learn to not foul so fucking much. We started the game playing well. And then DW and Holloman pick up 2 each super early and that changes so much of our offense. Doesn’t help defensively either when the entire team is in foul trouble.

Shitty game and a lot to be discouraged about.

11/26/2025 11:40:58 PM

Texas struggled with pressure. But we couldn’t continue to apply much pressure when the entire team is fouling out

11/26/2025 11:42:06 PM

I think it's a bigger issue than not fouling. We willingly give up open threes. Once a team shows that they can hit them, you can't just continue to give them those looks! Texas was 16-32 from 3! Stop doubling every paint touch! Fuck!!!

11/26/2025 11:45:26 PM

Copeland is the king of racking up garbage time points

11/26/2025 11:46:49 PM

Red Reckoning or Red Wreckoning?

11/26/2025 11:48:06 PM

Well yeah. We have to play good defense. We also have to stay out of foul trouble. Two separate things. Foul trouble makes the issues worse because our best players are either on the bench or playing tentatively because they’re in foul trouble. But yeah. Also don’t leave shooters wide open. Rotate faster, close out better. Maybe don’t switch on everything when a team is that hot.

Q had probably 15 points once the game was mostly decided. But he still played well.

11/26/2025 11:50:58 PM

Weaver for Texas was 1/13 from 3 on the year, 3/5 tonight.

Dwill barely got off the plane in Maui, he was MIA, hopefully he can step it up back home.

11/26/2025 11:55:37 PM

They’re a lot easier to make when they’re wide open.

And yeah. DW no showed. Needs = ballers to ball.

11/27/2025 12:05:37 AM

I didn't necessarily mean that as a counter to your point, just that one of the four guys hitting, was prob open on the scouting report, like Copeland or VAL. The other 3 are shooters.


Btw I think i listened to the radio and I think it's Bullshit how deep tarheel keeps sneaking propaganda into our games, first the sky blue unc rex ribbon in the area and now Carolina auto sponsors their opening segment called "Carolina keys to the game"?? What's next, naming the school UNC-Raleigh???

[Edited on November 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM. Reason : "Carolina keys to the game" really is an own goal, find a diff sponsor for that ]

11/27/2025 12:08:39 AM

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"UNC-Raleigh"

11/27/2025 9:05:57 AM

Quote :

" Red Reckoning or Red Wreckoning?"

This is why over and over these years I have pleaded with athletics to stop doing things like “This is Our State,””HTTT,” “1 Pack, 1 Goal (isn’t that just 3pts football, 1pt socccer/hockey anyways?,) etc.

Can we just scream “Go Wolfpack!” and just let that be the thing?

11/27/2025 10:00:28 AM