NC State (14-11, 5-7)
	vs
	#9 Louisville (20-4, 8-3 ACC)
	Saturday, February 14th, 4:00pm TV: ESPN

Louisville schedule to date:
vs Minnesota W 81-68
Jacksonville St W 88-39
Marshall W 85-67
Savannah St W 87-26
Cleveland St W 45-33
#14 Ohio State W 64-55
Florida International W 82-57
vs Indiana W 94-74
UNC Wilmington W 68-57
@ Western Kentucky W 76-67
CS Northridge W 80-55
#1 Kentucky L 58-50
Long Beach St W 63-48
@ Wake Forest W 85-76
Clemson W 58-52
@ #18 North Carolina L 72-71
Virginia Tech W 78-63
#4 Duke L 63-52
@ Pittsburgh W 80-68
@ Boston College W 81-72
#13 North Carolina W 78-68 OT
@ Miami (FL) W 63-55
@ #3 Virginia L 52-47
Pittsburgh W 69-56

2/13/2015 12:52:16 AM

for real though, i do think our earlier games with WVU and Cincy will help us with 40 minutes of Papa Johns. This has all the makings of a 1 point win

[Edited on February 13, 2015 at 1:03 AM. Reason : .]

2/13/2015 1:01:04 AM

nope, not even close. L. This one might get embarassing.

2/13/2015 3:00:16 AM

#whatever

2/13/2015 6:31:01 AM

plz2win

2/13/2015 8:16:58 AM

#STATEment game

2/13/2015 8:17:00 AM

Well, winning this would make up for the UVA loss. This and UNC are the only chances to build on the currently weak bubble resume (other than making a deep ACC tourney run).

2/13/2015 8:35:04 AM

Yeah this is probably gonna be ugly

2/13/2015 8:54:57 AM

Too many stronger contenders in the ACC to think of us as a bubble team, even if we win out.

2/13/2015 9:23:30 AM

How do you think we are on the bubble? We have 1 quality win and a lot of bad losses. The only way we go to the ncaa tournament is winning the ACC tournament.

2/13/2015 9:45:34 AM

Beat Louisville
Lose next 6

2/13/2015 10:16:17 AM

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"We have 1 quality win"

GFTO of here with that stupidity.

2/13/2015 10:19:14 AM

Tennessee?

2/13/2015 10:22:10 AM

If we go 5-1 down the stretch we would be in good shape if we can win one tourney game. After watching the last few games though we have almost no shot of that happening. 1-5 seems more likely.

2/13/2015 10:22:25 AM

SOS of 4, two top RPI top 50 wins (Duke & Boise St), only one sub-100 loss (WF). I'm not saying we are squarely on the bubble with that, but I would think a top 10 RPI win at UL or UNC would help immensely (along with not losing the other 4 games). A 5-1 record the rest of the way would put us firmly on the bubble, and 4-2 may nearly get us there (just can't see how a 9-9 record in the current ACC would keep you out of the NCAA tourney).

But yeah, our current RPI of 65 clearly isn't very strong and the actual number of losses may look bad to the committee.

2/13/2015 10:23:32 AM

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"A 5-1 record the rest of the way would put us firmly on the bubble"

You realize we're 3-7 over the last 10 games right?

2/13/2015 10:26:50 AM

I am, and quite a few of those games could have gone the other way

2/13/2015 10:29:28 AM

Even if we won out, we're not getting in the tournament without at least making it to the ACCT Championship game, most likely.

There are 5 top 12 teams ahead of us in the ACC, and four unranked teams ahead of us that have easier schedules to end the year (except Syracuse, that's tough). No way they take 10 teams from the ACC. We either need to win the ACCT, or win just about every other game on the way AND hope Syracuse bombs, and Clemson, Pitt and Miami have a few WTF losses.

It's a bleak outlook. In NCSU style, we'll hang on until the very end, and then all hope will be lost.

[Edited on February 13, 2015 at 10:35 AM. Reason : ]

2/13/2015 10:30:55 AM

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"I am, and quite a few of those games could have gone the other way"

Yeah especially that Georgia Tech game

Quote :

"They lost to us by missing two free throws, and then having us inbound the ball with less than 5 seconds left and hitting a 3 to win. That's some serious Georgia Tech Shit!"

Quote :

"we'll hang on until the very end"

I think that's actually our ceiling.

2/13/2015 10:32:01 AM

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"I am, and quite a few of those games could have gone the other way"

But it didn't. You know that close losses are still a loss, right? Nobody looks back at Sid's years and says, "damn we almost won a lot of those games."

2/13/2015 10:37:01 AM

Syracuse isn't going anywhere w/ self imposed sanctions

If we beat Clemson, we have at least a similar resume if not better than they do (only top 50 win vs. Arkansas & two sub 150 losses)

Pitt & Miami are the only ones we have to worry about looking better than/comparable to

2/13/2015 10:38:41 AM

Quote :

"No way they take 10 teams from the ACC"

We don't necessarily need to be ahead of teams in the ACC standings for the NCAA to select us over them due to unbalanced conference schedules and different out of conference SOS. That being said, we would have to go on a big winning streak to be considered now.

2/13/2015 12:41:18 PM

Right now I wouldnt count on more than 5 from the ACC much less 9 or 10

2/13/2015 12:46:01 PM

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"But it didn't. You know that close losses are still a loss, right? Nobody looks back at Sid's years and says, "damn we almost won a lot of those games.""

He didn't say that. I think he was saying that it is possible that we go 5-1 for the next six games, even though we've been 3-7 over the last 10 games.... he's saying that we were very close to winning some of those games, we were in almost all of them, and it's possible that if we play up to our potential we can still go 5-1 (although i don't think that's very likely)

2/13/2015 1:01:40 PM

UVA
DUKE
ND
Louisville
UNC
Pitt or Miami (maybe-> both have one big win with two potential quality games left to play)


Syracuse won't survive the end of their schedule
Neither will we.

^You're right, I read it with the wrong context in mind. Still think our potential is what we've seen.

[Edited on February 13, 2015 at 1:13 PM. Reason : Responding to Bullet]

2/13/2015 1:09:45 PM

Syracuse: n/a

2/13/2015 1:13:29 PM

Some updated predictions from a few sportswriters:

Stewart Mandel has NC State in first four out:

http://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/story/ncaa-tournament-march-madness-bracket-projection-ucla-bruins-pac-12-021315

Patrick Stevens has NC State in next 4 out:

http://www.syracuse.com/patrick-stevens/index.ssf/2015/02/bracketology_tough_times_conti.html

Quote :

"Miami and N.C. State, despite their recent struggles, remain the best candidates to emerge as a sixth NCAA-worthy team from the ACC. But if the tournament started now, both would be making preparations for the NIT."

2/13/2015 1:23:09 PM

That was my thought as well. The ACC was setup to have at least 7 teams but us and Miami have shut the bed by losing to the teams below us. Pitt was the other team that may have had a shot, but at this point it looks like 5 is all we are gonna get unless us or Miami decide to stop stinking it up.

[Edited on February 13, 2015 at 1:29 PM. Reason : .]

2/13/2015 1:29:42 PM

I would like to see Syracuse get a bid they have to decline.

2/13/2015 1:31:09 PM

Miami, Pitt and Clemson don't really have difficult schedules to finish the season. We need them to lose a good part of those games. Even so, when you have UNC die hard fans wondering if they will make the tourney this year, that gives me some pause.

2/13/2015 1:31:37 PM

2/13/2015 3:49:01 PM

Quote :

"I would like to see Syracuse get a bid they have to decline."

i don't think it would work like that, would it? i figure they just wouldn't receive a bid at all since they imposed a post season ban.

2/13/2015 5:06:13 PM

I have a feeling this will be one of those games where we get punched in the mouth early and then it gets embarrassing. I really hope I'm wrong.

2/14/2015 1:00:30 PM

I feel the same way. We suck on the road and Louisville should abuse us inside. Hopefully Lacy and Cat can do damage on the outside, but UL just crushed Pitt and today we see how good that Pitt team is playing. Hope we can keep it close and maybe have a few bounces vo our way for once.

2/14/2015 2:12:44 PM

wearing black jerseys today

2/14/2015 3:06:07 PM

And gold shoes...

2/14/2015 3:23:21 PM

anybody know what the '75 and '89 mean on the shoes?

2/14/2015 3:25:01 PM

Probably the last time we won ACC titles in basketball and football or some other sad realization.

2/14/2015 3:32:19 PM

i figured they might put something like '74 and '83 on there...but i have no idea what that means

2/14/2015 3:44:27 PM

We got busted back in '89 for selling shoes valued at $75 a pair

2/14/2015 3:45:39 PM

freeman starting over washington

2/14/2015 4:06:50 PM

Guess Gott figures Harrell will abuse any of our bigs and doesn't wanna get Washington in early foul trouble

Kara Lawson and Dave Lamont? who the fuck are these announcers?

[Edited on February 14, 2015 at 4:09 PM. Reason : ?]

2/14/2015 4:08:18 PM

Quote :

"§ 75-89. Powers and remedies supplementary. The powers and remedies provided by this Article shall be cumulative and supplementary to all powers and remedies otherwise provided by law. (1985 (Reg. Sess., 1986), c. 972, s. 1.)"

2/14/2015 4:09:20 PM

Woman announcer, are you kidding me?

2/14/2015 4:10:46 PM

anyone have a link to this, its not on espn3.com or on the first row

2/14/2015 4:11:08 PM

could hear a pin drop in that dump of an arena

2/14/2015 4:11:52 PM

they've already said "all time leading dunker" like 3 times. jesus. while impressive, it's also doesn't seem like a really big deal. i mean, harrell is good player regardless of his dunking

2/14/2015 4:12:02 PM

excellent defense on that first possession

2/14/2015 4:12:04 PM

nm, these fuckers decided to play the game online finally

2/14/2015 4:13:10 PM

^i think the kentucky game lasting a little long made them push the tip off back for our game.

2/14/2015 4:13:50 PM