December 28

Think we can win this one??

Discuss

12/20/2006 7:19:52 PM

trolling to begin the thread, I like it

12/20/2006 8:16:45 PM

boooooooooo this thread sucks

wait to ncsuftw1 (sp?) gets home to make the real deal, he pwns b-ball threads

12/20/2006 8:18:25 PM

Easy fellas...

12/20/2006 8:26:53 PM

~

12/20/2006 10:01:09 PM

no one at ecu cares about basketball, pencil in the W

12/20/2006 11:08:51 PM

Can't we worry about Cinci first?

12/20/2006 11:43:34 PM

^trying to pick a definite/potential W

12/21/2006 6:25:49 AM

If we lose this one, I will never end the of it from my ECU girlfriend...football and basketball...just can't happen. They have lost to some cupcake teams, so I think that we should be alright. Does anyone know the last time we did lose to ECU in basketball?

12/21/2006 2:22:49 PM

Quote :

"I will never end the of it from my ECU girlfriend"

Did she type that for you?

12/21/2006 2:24:00 PM

^^We have never lost to them in basketball.

12/21/2006 2:37:24 PM

^ah, well there has to be a 1st sometime....

12/21/2006 2:50:19 PM

Don't worry, there's no chance NCSU will lose this one. ECU is terrible when at home and even worse on the road. This appears to be the worst ECU team in years and that's saying something given the level of success (or lack there of) that ECU basketball usually has. Might as well let the starters stay on break a few days longer and just play the walk-ons and bench-riders.

12/21/2006 3:10:37 PM

^^ No there doesn't

12/21/2006 3:23:48 PM

Check out Women's basketball series history:

Quote :

"All-Time series record: NC State leads 31-3. This is the first meeting between the schools since 2003. "

[Edited on December 21, 2006 at 3:30 PM. Reason : .]

12/21/2006 3:26:23 PM

Any score predictions?

12/21/2006 9:18:01 PM

80-35 NCSU

[Edited on December 21, 2006 at 10:18 PM. Reason : sg]

12/21/2006 10:18:44 PM

da pack
240-87

12/21/2006 10:20:37 PM

84-51

12/21/2006 10:37:36 PM

384324945894589-12 NC State wins and somebody makes three threads bragging about it

12/22/2006 3:37:26 AM

Anybody else get directed to the UNC-W claim page (and hence "you have not been selected") when they try to claim ECU tix?

12/22/2006 4:08:40 AM

ECU is horrible in basketball. State will win this one with ease.

12/22/2006 9:59:14 AM

ECUs team is fucking terrible this year

easy W

12/22/2006 10:06:19 AM

didn't we beat them by about 50 last year?

12/22/2006 10:39:17 AM

we didnt play them last year

12/22/2006 4:20:53 PM

Sorry, it was two years ago. We beat them 100-66 in '04-'05.

12/22/2006 6:05:48 PM

State will win with ease. Pirates are down & I mean way down. Plus their whole team is like freshmen.

12/23/2006 8:19:00 AM

anyone else having trouble logging in to print tickets?

12/23/2006 1:09:01 PM

i will not be endorsing this as the game thread.


rather i will subscribing to the thread that will be created by ncsuftw1

12/23/2006 1:51:12 PM

the bball team is looking GOOOOOOD

12/23/2006 2:28:40 PM

in 104 for this one

maybe the students will cheer this time..

12/23/2006 7:51:03 PM

^half full RBC i'm guessing

12/23/2006 10:11:52 PM

if we cant beat EZU, expect no ACC wins

Hopefully this season will not be the worst record ever posted by the BB team. Hmmm, wonder what that record is?

[Edited on December 23, 2006 at 10:27 PM. Reason : w]

12/23/2006 10:26:24 PM

it can't be the worst...

but i bet it won't be the best... man went out on a limb there

12/23/2006 10:35:58 PM

105 A

im doing my part

12/24/2006 9:37:05 AM

Anybody have any extra side court tickets???????

PM me please

[Edited on December 25, 2006 at 3:30 PM. Reason : pm]

12/25/2006 3:28:17 PM

Interesting article on gopack.com.

http://tinyurl.com/ydz4am



RALEIGH, N.C. – When coach Ricky Stokes sends his East Carolina Pirates up against Sidney Lowe’s NC State Wolfpack Thursday night in Raleigh (7 p.m.), it won’t be the first time the two former ACC guards have crossed paths.



Not by a long shot.



Twenty-four years ago, Lowe and Stokes were key players in two of the most significant basketball games in the history of both NC State and Virginia.



Stokes played on a powerful Uva squad that was anchored by national player of the year Ralph Sampson, a 7-4 center whose incredible skills made coach Terry Holland’s Cavaliers the odds on favorite to win the NCAA title.



The year was 1983, Sampson’s best and last chance to capture an elusive championship.



On January 12th of that season, Virginia, then ranked No. 2 in the country, visited NC State’s Reynolds Coliseum for the first of two regular season meetings between the two schools. It was on that night that the Wolfpack’s season seemed to take a turn towards total irrelevance when late in the first half, shooting star Dereck Whittenburg broke a bone in his foot. After falling behind by as many as 19 points in the opening half, Virginia, led by Stokes and Sampson, rallied for an 88-80 victory.



As they exited Reynolds that night, neither the players, nor the coaches nor the fans could have possibly known what would come two months later when the two ACC clubs would again face off in not one, but two postseason games that would make college basketball history.



Prior to the 1983 ACC Tournament, Stokes’ record against NC State as a player was 6-0. Lowe, who was a senior point guard, was 1-7 against the Cavaliers in his career, with the only victory coming his freshman year when he was backing up Clyde Austin.



But by the time the two clubs met again in the finals of the ACC Tournament, the records didn’t matter because NC State had become a totally different team. With Whittenburg healthy again, the Wolfpack was on a late season roll, and stunned the Cavaliers in the ACC Tourney final at the Omni in Atlanta, 81-78.



Improbably, Stokes and Lowe would again be going head-to-head two weeks later, but this time, the stakes were even higher. The two ACC teams found themselves 2,000 miles from home in Ogden, Utah, playing for the right to reach college basketball’s Holy Grail, The Final Four.



Again, the Wolfpack denied the great Sampson a championship, this time by eliminating the Cavaliers from the NCAA Tournament with a 63-62 triumph.



The rest, they say, is history.



Eight days later, in the immortal words of Wally Ausley, “the glass slipper fits, the Wolfpack has won the national championship.”



Nowadays, Stokes is working for his former coach after Holland, ECU's Athletics Director, made him East Carolina’s head basketball coach two years ago. The rebuilding Pirates are 4-6, having fallen on hard times with a five-game losing streak.



Lowe’s Wolfpack has also had its share of up and downs with a 7-4 record. NC State will be looking to end a two-game losing skid on Thursday night.



When they shake hands before East Carolina clashes with NC State on Thursday night, it will be virtually impossible for Stokes and Lowe not to have flashbacks about the significant roles they both played in those titanic Virginia-NC State games of 23 years ago.



They’ll never forget, nor will anyone else.

12/28/2006 2:31:53 AM

Anyone know off hand if $10 tickets are still available?

12/28/2006 11:24:58 AM

^Yes, they will be up in the 300 levels though

12/28/2006 11:31:09 AM

buying 300 level seats when the student seats courtside will be near empty seems a bit ridiculous

http://www.brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=452297

i wonder how many people are missing their claimed tickets? I know of at least a dozen at this point.

12/28/2006 11:41:07 AM

NCSU: 79
ECU: 61

12/28/2006 11:42:19 AM

I saw ECU play UNCW earlier this year, neither of them are very good teams, it was 21-21 at halftime of that game. If we can come out with any ounce of intensity then we should handle both of them with little problems.

12/28/2006 12:58:00 PM

we gettin beat so far

12/28/2006 7:20:03 PM

score anyone?

12/28/2006 7:24:47 PM

Jesus Christ do they want us to kill ourselves or what

12/28/2006 7:28:38 PM

Someone tell me that gametracker is wrong and it's not really 32-19 ECU. I'm going to drive off the Bay Bridge on the way home.

12/28/2006 7:36:54 PM

32-19 ecu

about 3 min left in the half i think

12/28/2006 7:37:08 PM

19-32

d'oh!

[Edited on December 28, 2006 at 7:37 PM. Reason : ^correct...it's the jeremy ingram v. ncsu show]

12/28/2006 7:37:11 PM

Does anybody want a cake or anything

I might put one in before I stick my head in the oven

12/28/2006 7:38:51 PM

oh god now they're showing ecu beating us in football...gah! rub it in why don't ya espnu!?

they just announced the stats...Ingram has 18 points, NCSU has 19...i mean SHIT!

oh that was embarrassing

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12/28/2006 7:40:30 PM