Life In Wake Forest NC.....

Continuing on from my previous post The Epicenter of Collegiate Sports...Feel the Vibe?  Part I .....

North Carolina State University Wolfpack!!!

Basketball:

NC State University Wolfpack is one of the four teams that make up the Big Four and is also the biggest rival to UNC Tar Heels.  The air gets pretty electrified here in NC during game times.  You either bleed Wolfpack Red or Carolina Blue.  (And then ya gotta throw in the whole Blue Devils and Demon Deacons into the mix......later post!)

Some great stats and trivia for the Wolfpack are:

• The tradition of cutting down the nets after winning a championship was started at NC State
• The alley-oop was invented by David Thompson (considered by some to be the greatest college player of all time) and Monte Towe (currently the Pack's assistant coach) during their time at NC State
• Camping out for tickets became a tradition at NC State during the late 1960s and early 1970s, by accounts of alumni that went to the school during this time. The tradition would spread on to UNC in the mid-late 1970s and on to Duke, who, beginning in 1986, took it to an extreme level with the start of Krzyzewskiville, probably the most recognized student camp out in the nation
• NCAA Tournament Champions in 1974 and 1983
• NCAA Tournament Final Four 1950, 1974 and 1983
• NCAA Tournament Final Four 1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1983 and 1987
• Conference Regular Season Champions 1955, 1956, 1959, 1973, 1974, 1985 and 1989

Football:

Of the 23 bowl games that the Wolfpack has played they have won twelve!  No surprise that the rivals include UNC Tar Heels, Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Duke Blue Devils and the East Carolina Pirates.  Some stats that you may find interesting for NC State Wolfpack are:

• ACC Championships: 7 (1957, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1973, 1979)
• Notable recent players include Manny Lawson (2002-05), Philip Rivers (2000-04), Mario Williams (2003-05), Jerricho Cotchery (2000-04) and Adrian Wilson (1997-01)

Next post?  Duke Blue Devils, of course! 

Just a little FYI - I learned something that I never knew before - nope, not sharing now - you will have to wait until I am done with my own version of the BIG FOUR!!!!  Posts, that is.

    <----------------  My Wolfpack RED!

                         

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