Bowl Ticket Sales Update, Plus Other Items
by Akula Wolf on Dec 14, 2010 4:29 PM EST
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Print-- According to this report from the N&O, State's bowl ticket sales have topped 8,500, and that number does not include purchases made through Ticketmaster or directly through the bowl. Including those other sources, NC State fans have probably accounted for at least 10,000 tickets. That's better than I was expecting.
-- This is a great time killer: the ACC Vault is an archive of basketball games dating back to the early 1980s. There are a bunch of State/Carolina games available, including the upset in '07, the CC Harrison game in '98, and the Pack's ACC tournament triumph in '87. I watched quite a bit of the '98 game, and I have to say I had totally forgotten what a bitch Vince Carter was. Here's one of my favorite moments. Carter throws Benjamin to the ground and the ref is right there and just stares at Osh. That really makes the whole thing. Ah, the '90s.
-- Sports Illustrated named Nate Irving a first-team All-American.
-- Bill Stewart will stick around to coach WVU in 2011, but the job is Dana Holgorsen's beginning in 2012.
-- Sid is starting to worry about the team's health:
"I'm a little concerned. I'm a little concerned because with Tracy being out and then Jordan [Vandenberg] getting hurt. That's two centers," Lowe said on his radio show on Monday night. "That's two players in the same position as well as Javi's [Gonzalez] been in there with Charlie [Rozanski] (Director of sports medicine) the last couple of days as well working on some stuff. I'm a little concerned about it but I think we'll be okay."
The sophomore seven-footer Jordan Vandenberg injured his left ankle late in the Wolfpack's win over USC Upstate on Saturday. N.C. State's doctors classified the injury as a sprain and Vandenberg isn't expected to miss much time.
Not expected to miss much time = one game? No games? Tim Peeler's recap of the Upstate win mentioned that Javi suffered a thigh injury, but since he came back afterward I'm going to assume that's not a big deal.
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Damn you, Steven
Went to the clip you linked… and then skipped to a few of the other ones bookmarked. 1 – I loved that team… and I loved the hope we had at that point. 2 – My God, we were getting worked by the refs. Kenny is getting undercut by Carter on the tip at the end of the half… no call there, either. It takes a fucking game-of-your-career by someone to have a chance to overcome the zebras on the Hill. God, I hate them.
They also have the State/Clemson 2OT game on there
That was the game during which Cam got T’d up for hanging on the rim. I watched that part again…it was as bogus as I remembered it. Awesome game, though. Watching that team pass the ball is a lot of fun. I miss Evtimov.
Cam
had some ridiculous calls go against him during his career, particularly the game at chapel hill during Hansbrough’s freshman year.
Do you guys remember the flagrant foul cliff crawford got when he swiped his arm ABOVE an opposing player’s head and knocked the ball away? Totally clean play.
by PACKHOOLIGAN on Dec 14, 2010 7:09 PM EST up reply actions
Refs truly hated Cam, and I never got it
Worst example I ever saw was one time where he gets fouled in the corner, gets the ball taken, gets knocked down… as everyone’s going the other way, the ref is just standing over Cam, glaring at him, daring him to say anything about the no-call… he was baiting him into a T, but Cam just sat there and looked at him, then got up & ran back downcourt.
And yeah – I remember that one against Cliff. It wasn’t even a foul… much less a flagrant. We could probably name 10 games… without batting an eye… that got taken from us on inexplicable calls… calls I’ve never seen go against another team a single time.
Thanks again, Steven – I’m gonna pop some anti-depressants now.
by wolfonthehill on Dec 14, 2010 9:30 PM EST up reply actions
I want to say
it was his senior year at Clemson, but I could be totally wrong.
by PACKHOOLIGAN on Dec 15, 2010 8:49 AM EST up reply actions
Cliff Crawford
I always thought would be a phenomenal strong safety. Guy had great athleticism.
I recommend the '03 Carolina game as well
Still one of my all-time favorites. Great free throw shooting, a late rally capped by a clutch J from Julius, and a delightfully anti-climactic OT.
State @ UNC 1997
Is this one on the list? This was the Steve Norton imbounds clinic with a minute to go and up by like 6 or 7 only to totally collapse. This was especially brutal seeing how the students on campus had proceeded to roll the trees on campus before the end of the game. They had so much to learn about being a State fan and waiting for the other shop to drop syndrome.
This was the worst non tournament choke of the HWSNBN era…which is saying something considering the epic collapses of the Vandy NC2a game, the Duke championship game, and the Wisky S16 game. Ahhh, good times.
UNC @ State 1997
Ironically this one was in our reach also. If I remember correctly, this one was in the forties, we had the lead under a minute to go and were holding the ball to get fouled. Benjamin bounces the ball off his knee out of bounds, Ed GotoHell drives on the other end and hits a teardrop with little to no time left. State goes down the other end and Strong’s desperation heave is blocked by Carter as time expires. Those were some character building games, a harbinger of things to come that season.
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