Didn't see it anywhere else

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"North Carolina State's women's basketball coach could receive special recognition this Friday when the Wolfpack hosts the North Carolina Tar Heels. The Board of Trustees at North Carolina State University could vote Friday morning to approve a motion that would name the basketball court at Reynolds Coliseum after Kay Yow. Yow has coached at State for 32 years. She recently won her 700th career game, joining five other coaches in the history of women's Division 1 basketball to do so. Yow has also been a symbol of strength during her public battle with breast cancer. She recently returned to the sidelines after taking time off to fight the disease."

Any chance if this happens, there might be a push to get the RBC Center's court named after Jimmy V (even though he didn't coach in the building)

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 8:54 PM. Reason : http://wral.com/sports/story/1202748/]

2/13/2007 8:45:18 PM

this sounds like a great idea, and I think naming the court after Jimmy V at the RBC is a good one too

2/13/2007 8:47:02 PM

Yow deserves it

but the RBC court doesn't need to be named after anyone

2/13/2007 8:47:25 PM

she deserves more than just a court, but its a good place to start

2/13/2007 8:47:51 PM

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"she deserves more than just a court, but its a good place to start"

Very true. She's meant a hell of a lot to this University.

Is she the the longest serving head coach (of any sport) here?

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 8:54 PM. Reason : dur]

2/13/2007 8:49:14 PM

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"she deserves more than just a court, but its a good place to start"

I'd like to see Jimmy V recognized with a court, but I don't really know that he should get one and Case shouldn't, but then again, case already got something named after him and the haters always find that little blemish on the end of Valvano's career here.

2/13/2007 8:52:51 PM

i was talking to someone who is heading the push for this and told them that the student body would be strongly behind this

so dont make me look stupid

2/13/2007 8:59:59 PM

I think you can count on them.

I'd even suggest a front-page story submission but it's a really bad time for that.

[Edited on February 13, 2007 at 9:03 PM. Reason : front]

2/13/2007 9:03:13 PM

she deserves more than just a court, but its a good place to start

2/13/2007 10:24:26 PM

I say don't name the court at the RBC Center after V. Instead just put up three bronze life size statues of Case, Sloan, and Valvano at the front entrance of the arena. I still think we need a NC State basketball hall of fame/museum. Alabama has a museum on their campus. It'd be nice just to see the history of State's basketball program all accounted for in one building with classic photos and timelines.

2/13/2007 10:36:32 PM

yeah i think naming the court and the ESA after V would be a bad idea.

^ i LOVE that idea

2/13/2007 11:11:24 PM

I'm down with some statues. That would give me chills walking in for the game!

2/13/2007 11:25:25 PM

Museum or statues would rock. Yeah there are some State fans that live in the past too much, but there are SO MANY current students who have no idea of our history. A museum or at least more museum type stuff at the RBC Center would help

2/13/2007 11:36:19 PM

Wait, what has she done again besides getting cancer?

She made it to the final 4 like 15 years ago, right?

And she hasn't really done shit since?

OK name the court after her.

And name the RBC court after Herb Sendek while you're at it.

2/13/2007 11:44:35 PM

are you saying put the statues outside of reynolds or rbc? it would never happen outside of rbc while we share the building with the hurricanes and whatever else.

^ she still means a hell of a lot to the university and is brings a great deal of class to basketball

2/13/2007 11:50:18 PM

• Yow has averaged 20 wins per season after 31 years as NC State's head coach.
• She has directed the Wolfpack to 19, top three finishes in the final ACC standings.
• Her teams have been ranked 323 weeks, which is sixth in the nation and first in the ACC.
• She has the fifth most wins in NCAA D-Ihistory among active coaches.
• She has coached more than 900 games at NC State, which is fifth in NCAA D-I WBB history.
• She was the first ACC WBB coach to eclipse 600 wins at the same school and was the sixth among all-time NCAA D-I coaches.
• Her team's have advanced to 19 of the 25 NCAA Tournaments. Those appearances rank her 10th among active D-I coaches for most appearances.
• She was the first women's basketball coach in ACC history to reach 650 career wins, only seven coaches all-time have done so.
• 1998 Final Four
• 20, 20-win seasons
• Sweet 16, 10 Times
• 1998 Elite Eight
• Five ACC Championships
• Four ACC Tournament Titles
• 20, Top 25 Finishes and 7 Top 10 Finishes
• Four Kodak All-Americans
• One of 20 teams with more than 600 wins in the NCAA
• 20th all-time winningest team in NCAA history
• 52 All-ACC honorees and 31 All-ACC Tournament players
• Two players were named ACC Player of the Year
• Two ACC Rookies of the Year
• Four MVPs of the ACC Tournament
• 12 WNBA Players or Coaches
• Nine ACC 50th Anniversary players
• Three Golden Anniversary team members
• 77 ACC Honor Roll members
• Second most victories in ACC history
• Second highest winning percentage in ACC history
• Six players rank in the ACC's top 20 all-time records for field goals made and field goal percentage
• Five players rank in the ACC's top 20 all-time records for points, rebounds and assists
• Four players rank in the ACC's top 20 all-time records for steals and blocks
• NC State has the eighth-most players to play in the WNBA in all of college basketball
• NC State and Coach Yow, in conjunction with the Jimmy V Foundation, started the Jimmy V Women's Classic, the first of its kind to donate money to cancer research in the game of women's basketball. The Classic has been in existence four years.

2/13/2007 11:51:45 PM

^for the win.....YES!

2/13/2007 11:54:07 PM

^^was just about to post that same list

2/13/2007 11:58:02 PM

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"Wait, what has she done again besides getting cancer?"

God I hate our fans....we have the 5th most successful coach in the history of the game and she makes the NCAA tourney almost every year and yet she gets hated on.

2/14/2007 12:01:48 AM

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" Wait, what has she done again besides getting cancer? She made it to the final 4 like 15 years ago, right? And she hasn't really done shit since? OK name the court after her. And name the RBC court after Herb Sendek while you're at it. "

You probably couldn't even coach a little league basketball team, let alone defeat cancer at the same time.

2/14/2007 12:02:34 AM

during hockey games will it be the jimmy v pile o' wood?

2/14/2007 12:02:52 AM

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"are you saying put the statues outside of reynolds or rbc? it would never happen outside of rbc while we share the building with the hurricanes and whatever else. "

Well it'd be nice to put them up at the front of the arena, but we could easily put the museum in some of the land adjacent to the arena, and have the statues at the entrance to that. i mean that area already is considered an athletic complex. State fans could go to it prior to games, and even visiting fans could see it and learn more about our history, in effect putting them in a state of awe. Many Alabama fans make it a tradition to visit their museum on gamedays.

I mean we're the birth of cutting down the nets in the college game, spotlight player introductions, the alley-oop play, big-time basketball in the state of North Carolina and the South, the Father of the ACC, etc. etc.

2/14/2007 12:14:02 AM

damn, I got killed in this thread.

As far as I can remember, Yow has been Duke and UNC's bitch. Apparently it wasn't always that way.

2/14/2007 12:22:02 AM

give me a fucking break

2/14/2007 12:35:14 AM

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"she deserves more than just a court, but its a good place to start"

2/14/2007 12:45:08 AM

the RBC Center was Jimmy V's vision - the dream that he brought to this university.

name the court after him.


and as far as Yow...

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""she deserves more than just a court, but its a good place to start""

2/14/2007 12:50:41 AM

^ Perfect post.

2/14/2007 1:38:14 AM

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"yeah i think naming the court and the ESA after V would be a bad idea. "

I hope y'all realize that the ESA was Jimmy V's dream. He was the one who started the push for it.

2/14/2007 3:16:02 AM

i'm all for some sort of statue/memorium either outside or inside the esa, but i think a coach should have coached on the actual floor for it to be named after him

2/14/2007 3:34:17 AM

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"Prawn Star All American 1905 Posts user info edit post damn, I got killed in this thread. As far as I can remember, Yow has been Duke and UNC's bitch. Apparently it wasn't always that way. "

hey prawn star, here is your cue to just shut the fuck up...you are the only faggot trying to troll.....keep it up

2/14/2007 9:04:11 AM

having the rbc or the court after jimmy v is a DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB idea.

case is MUCH more deserving. as for reynolds/yow, that's fantastic!

[Edited on February 14, 2007 at 10:31 AM. Reason : ]

2/14/2007 10:30:58 AM

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""she deserves more than just a court, but its a good place to start""

2/14/2007 10:33:12 AM

Case already has the Athletic Center next to Reynolds.

if Case is named after anything more, it should be either the mezzanine, or the locker room, or something else. I'd even rather have a statue of Case in front of the RBC center, more so than Valvano...

but that court belongs to Jimmy V.

2/14/2007 11:24:39 AM

Anyone else think this might mean she might be stepping down permanently? I hope not anyway. She definitely deserves this.

2/14/2007 11:28:01 AM

^^ so name the athletic center for valvano. case trumps any and all coaches, and even a.d.'s, we've ever had.

2/14/2007 5:27:32 PM

shes the herb sendek of women's basketball

2/14/2007 5:34:00 PM

^^Case's contributions to basketball amount to anecdotes, footnotes, and afterthoughts, even in sports writers' pieces. He DID do alot, but he's not quite Rupp or Naismith. V, on the other hand, is very well known, and, despite his ugly demise here, IS the face of NC State Basketball, now and probably forever.

2/14/2007 5:36:25 PM

so you want to name our court, something that's VERY signficant, after valvano simply because non-state people would like it best???

2/14/2007 5:38:23 PM

not at all.

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"the face of NC State Basketball, now and probably forever."

is Valvano. Case is a legend in his own right, but Valvano was bigger than the sport.

2/14/2007 5:39:50 PM

As great as Case was, I think Valvano really captured the heart of the wolfpack nation.

He needs a court named after him or we continue to suck. Mark those words.

2/14/2007 5:42:47 PM

Jim Valvano Court at the RBC Center

located along with Carter-Finley Stadium in the beautiful Everett Case Athletic Park

there, I solved all the problems

2/14/2007 5:43:05 PM

^i'm completely for it.

2/14/2007 5:44:22 PM

if valvano hadn't died from cancer and made some dramatic speeches, no one would give a damn. naming of the court should only have to do with nc state, not what someone did for cancer awareness and how many sportswriters aren't worth a damn when it comes to basketball history.

as you probably know, case established big time basketball in the south. he made the southern conference and the acc. case made nc state basketball into what it would be for 50 years. case's success at nc state forced unc to hire dean smith. duke hired one of case's former players and assistants, vic bubas, and he turned duke into a basketball power. he coached norm sloan too. case brought down several traditions from indiana and started others, like cutting down the nets. case is nc state basketball. unc, duke, wake, maryland, and virginia fans would all assuredly agree; as would former acc players. i don't care what espn, joe buck in minnesota, or some sports writer in texas thinks.

[Edited on February 14, 2007 at 5:55 PM. Reason : ]

2/14/2007 5:47:15 PM

thanks for the history lesson


name the court after V anyways.

2/14/2007 5:50:52 PM

well, i'll just be content in knowing that'll likely never happen.

2/14/2007 5:52:29 PM

chuck amato field at carter-finely stadium

2/14/2007 6:07:14 PM

The RBC court should be named Jimmy V Court because he was the one that pushed for a new and improved basketball stadium

2/14/2007 6:11:06 PM

so thats all you have to do to have a court named after you?

shit, since i've been here i've been wanting the library to be renovated. name the renovated wing after me please

[Edited on February 14, 2007 at 6:15 PM. Reason : m]

2/14/2007 6:14:35 PM

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"case's success at nc state forced unc to hire dean smith Frank McGuire."

2/14/2007 6:17:11 PM

Does Norm Sloan get anything?

2/14/2007 6:18:24 PM