[from a Yahoo Sports article on the Wolfpack v. Maryland game]

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"RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Nothing appears to come easily for No. 18 North Carolina State, particularly lately, with three consecutive down-to-the-wire games, one of which went two overtimes. Yet the Wolfpack continue to find a way to win, and their method Sunday was a bit maddening to Maryland. Of their 17 field goals, 12 came on 3-pointers. "When they make 3s, they're a good team," Terrapins guard D.J. Strawberry said. "They were on, and they won the game." Tony Bethel made two of those long-range jumpers and added two free throws down the stretch, helping N.C. State hold off Maryland 62-58 to give coach Herb Sendek his 250th career victory. Bethel finished with five 3s and 17 points, and Cameron Bennerman added 11 points for the Wolfpack (18-4, 7-2 Atlantic Coast Conference), who maintained a one-game lead over Miami for second place in the league. Second-ranked Duke leads at 9-0. "Just another hard-fought, down-to-the-buzzer ACC game," Sendek said. "What else would we expect from these two teams and this league?" Andrew Brackman made a layup with 13:21 remaining for N.C. State, and what turned out to be his team's lone two-point field goal of the second half increased its lead to 42-34. The Terrapins (14-7, 4-4) rallied to get within three on Nik Caner-Medley's late 3-pointer, but Bethel converted two free throws and Bennerman added another to offset a tip-in by Ekene Ibekwe. Maryland missed three attempts in the final seconds, then a final one when Mike Jones was short on an off-balance jumper right before the final buzzer. "We were right there," Strawberry said. "We've just got to keep pushing. We are going to be a good team, we've just got to do a couple of things to tighten it up." It gave the Wolfpack their fourth straight conference victory and their fifth in the past 15 games against Maryland. This was the sixth time since 1973 the teams have played on the same day as the Super Bowl. "I am proud of our guys, because we were in it until the end," Maryland coach Gary Williams said. "N.C. State is a good team, with lots of veterans, and we stayed tough and I am very encouraged about that." Caner-Medley, who took one shot before halftime and was scoreless in 18 minutes, picked up the pace with 10 points in second half, including five in a 35-second span, to bring the Terrapins within 56-53. Bethel answered on the other end with a 3 before Caner-Medley made another, setting up the finish. That included Bethel's clutch shots from the line. "That's one thing we work on in practice," he said. "Coach has us shooting a lot of those in practice, so I was comfortable hitting those last two." Strawberry had 14 points for Maryland, and Jones and James Gist each scored 13. Caner-Medley added 10 rebounds. Yet with Bethel and company making jumpers from all over the court, none of that was enough. Six players had 3s for the Wolfpack, with Ilian Evtimov and Bennerman each making two, and they finished 12-for-28 from beyond the arc for the game. "When we're knocking them down, it gets frustrating for the defense," Bennerman said. "When we're not knocking them down, it kind of takes the wind out of us, and it lets the defense rest when all you take is outside shots." Bethel's total tied a career high and gave him at least three in five straight games. N.C. State managed to win despite shooting a season-low 30.9 percent, and it was the worst effort in a victory since beating Connecticut in 1991 with 30.6 percent. "We didn't have crisp ball movement, weren't penetrating well, and we were cutting away from the basket instead of toward the basket," Sendek said. "Those kind of things really kept us from performing well." Of course, that hardly mattered to the Terrapins, who lost their third straight overall and second in the conference. At least they get to return home for two games -- including a matchup with Duke on Saturday -- and Caner-Medley stopped short of calling them must-wins. "We still have half the season to play," Caner-Medley said. "We go into every game like we have to win it, but all that stuff is just talk.""

We only had 1 two-point basket in the second half!?!?!?!

And it was with 14 minutes left!?!?!?!?

Fuck, how did i not notice this, I thought we at least had a couple.

If we ever, ever, do shit like that again, we will most definitely lose the game.

2/6/2006 4:12:52 PM

Haha 3s and free throws...Its like my high school team that was all white.

2/6/2006 4:14:41 PM

anything that gets a W

2/6/2006 4:15:25 PM

Does this mean that we were good or they were bad?

2/6/2006 4:23:10 PM

please refer to the thread on the game, this was mentioned in that thread. This thread is an extra and has no point of being made. Thanks again panthro for your uncanny ability to be late and make a point already mentioned.

LOCK this son bitch

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=384346&page=5 Crede post, check it out

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 4:27 PM. Reason : d]

2/6/2006 4:24:20 PM

gavin had a put back in the second half

2/6/2006 4:27:05 PM

it didn't feel like we only made 5 the whole game (i think because we were getting fouled on some of them).

2/6/2006 4:29:49 PM

^^^sorry but some of us actually go to the game and hence dont post in a game thread or feel the desire to sift through a 6 pg thread.

this is news to me and i was at the game.

interesting.

2/6/2006 4:36:32 PM

^thanks, my thoughts exactly.

when you are at the game, you dont pick up on all of those little tidbits of information.

And as for you, JT3bucky, you worthless sack of trolling shit, you can eat my ass.

I am not sorting through all of the game thread clutter to post this.

This is really an amazing stat. It is worthy of its own thread.

2/6/2006 4:40:43 PM

You're an idiot. Going to the game doesn't allow you to be lazy when it comes to making new threads.

2/6/2006 4:44:30 PM

And for a record, I posted that exact fact well after the game was over.. not during the game that you were at.

lock

2/6/2006 4:47:39 PM

^double post, suspend

2/6/2006 4:48:19 PM

^^FUCK YOU!

I'll make 100 new threads if i feel like each one is different and brings up an interesting topic of discussion about the Pack or anything sports related for that matter.


Its said so often, I'm not quite sure why you cant live by it:

If its a repeat, or a thread you dont care for, dont fucking click on it, but shit, PLEASE dont post in it.

Im sure not everyone knew that this was the case for the second half. I had no idea that we were 1-10 in two point field goals the second half.

sorry i'm not glued to the fucking wolf web during a home basketball game....I'm actually in the stands, being a real fan.

Lamer.

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 4:50 PM. Reason : Im pissed off.]

[Edited on February 6, 2006 at 4:50 PM. Reason : and cannot type]

2/6/2006 4:49:43 PM

^ Pwnt on Crede and JT3Bucky

2/6/2006 4:51:07 PM

OMFGAFA THE GOD OF SPORTS TALK CALLED ME A LAMER

2/6/2006 4:51:51 PM

I think Bennerman made a 2 somewhere in there too

2/6/2006 5:54:57 PM

I heard this from a bunch of people, its trew

2/6/2006 6:53:59 PM

Quote :

"I think Bennerman made a 2 somewhere in there too"

i remember in the second half him getting fouled on a fast break, where he would have surely dunked it or made a layup, and the refs simply called out of bounds off of Maryland.

2/6/2006 7:05:23 PM

holy shit thats crazy

2/6/2006 7:29:00 PM

all you people that complain are a bunch of duche bags, who the hell cares if he makes another thread, this is a valid point. I know there are some dumbasses on here including myself but im tired of all this complaining

2/6/2006 8:49:56 PM

my name is abonorio and I support Panthro and the creation of this thread.

2/6/2006 9:08:09 PM

well i went to the game and still decided to look through the material that was posted.

thanks again panthro for cluttering up sports talk

2/6/2006 11:02:39 PM

2/6/2006 11:51:10 PM

my name is Woodfoot and i support Panthro and the creation of this thread

2/7/2006 10:00:12 AM

ps

Quote :

"if USC doesnt beat Texas in the NC, I will never post in Sports Talk again."

2/7/2006 10:02:55 AM

i'll second this thread ... good lookin' out

2/7/2006 10:06:27 AM