Basketball

Survive and advance
[Mar. 20, 2005] No. 10 seed NC State (20-13) faces No. 2 seed Connecticut (23-7) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament with the winner advancing to the Sweet 16.

Duke 57, Delaware State 46
[Mar. 19, 2005] Coach Mike Krzyzewski moved to the top of the record book. Shelden Williams had 14 points and 11 rebounds and the top-seeded Blue Devils held off 16th-seeded Delaware State 57-46 on Friday night in the Austin Regional, giving Coach K his 65th career victory in the tournament

Wolfpack comeback stops Charlotte, 75-63
[Mar. 18, 2005] Worcester, Mass. - Julius Hodge provided the leadership and offense, while Cameron Bennerman spearheaded the defense. The results will send NC State into the second round of the NCAA Tournament following a 75-63 victory over Charlotte (21-8). Leading five players in double figures, Hodge put up 19 points, seven rebounds and nine assists in one of his best all around performances of the year. Doing the dirty work was Bennerman, who cooled off 49rs shooting star Brendan Plavich in the second half after the 6-2 senior had torched the Pack (20-13) with five 3-point baskets and 15 points in the opening 20 minutes. By Tony Haynes, gopack.com
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Wake Forest advances to 2nd round, plays West Virginia Saturday
[Mar. 18, 2005] Wake Forest, which broke a school record with its 27th victory on Thursday, advances to the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the fourth straight year, where it will face West Virginia (approximately 8:00 pm/CBS). The winner of Saturday's game advances to the Sweet 16 in Albuquerque, NM, where it will face either Gonzaga or Texas Tech. The No. 2 seed and fifth-ranked Demon Deacons, 27-5 overall, overcame a sluggish first half to beat Chattanooga, 70-54, Thursday night.

Duke's J.J. Redick named ACC Player of the Year
[Mar. 17, 2005] J.J. Redick rarely turns down a shot, and this was no exception. In the final minute of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament final, the Duke guard found himself open from about 25 feet -- well within his range. With Duke leading Georgia Tech by two points, Redick launched his fifth 3-pointer of the game -- and bounced it off the rim. The ill-timed shot didn't end up costing the Blue Devils, who made their free throws down the stretch. And it didn't even earn Redick the ire of coach Mike Krzyzewski.

UNC's Marvin Williams named ACC Rookie of the Year
[Mar. 15, 2005] Chapel Hill -- The surprise isn't that Marvin Williams ended up being the Atlantic Coast Conference's top rookie, it's that a player of his caliber would even play college ball. While many of his peers went straight from high school to the NBA, the 6-foot-9 Williams passed up a possible high draft selection to go to North Carolina.

Duke earns No. 1 seed in tourney, will face Delaware State Friday at 7:25 pm
[Mar. 14, 2005] The Duke men's basketball team (25-5), fresh off its 69-64 win over Georgia Tech to capture the 2005 ACC Championship, learned it will be a No. 1 seed in the 2005 NCAA Tournament. Duke will face MEAC Champion Delaware State (19-13) in the first round in Charlotte, N.C., at 7:25 p.m. Friday, March 18.

Wake Forest to play Chattanooga in NCAA Tournament first round
[Mar. 13, 2005] Wake Forest has earned an at-large berth in the 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The Demon Deacons are the No. 2 seed in the Albuquerque region and will face 15th-seeded Chattanooga (20-10), champions of the Southern Conference in the first round. Tipoff is set for 7:10 p.m. at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland on the campus of Cleveland State University on Thursday. All NCAA Tournament games will be televised on CBS.

NC State finishes off season sweep of Maryland, 82-63
[Feb. 17, 2005] Raleigh, N.C. - For the first time in 2005, NC State has a winning streak to brag about. In finishing off its first regular season sweep of Maryland since 1989, the Wolfpack made it back-to-back victories for the first time since late December. And this one was impressive. Ilian Evtimov and Tony Bethel led four players in double figures with 17 points apiece on a night when the Pack often used pinpoint offensive execution to pile up 22 assists on its 25 baskets in an 82-63 win. Julius Hodge led the assist parade with nine, to go along with 13 points and seven rebounds. By WEB RUN - Tony Haynes
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Redick named ACC Player of the Week
[Feb. 7, 2005] Duke's J.J. Redick was named the ACC Player of the Week on Monday after averaging 29.5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists in two games against ranked opponents last week. Duke dropped a 92-89 decision to No. 7 Wake Forest on Wednesday before responding with an 82-65 win over No. 25 Georgia Tech Saturday afternoon.

90-foot miracle gives Guilford win
[Feb. 1, 2005] Sophomore guard Jordan Snipes made a 90-foot shot as time expired to give visiting Guilford a stunning 91-89 Old Dominion Athletic Conference(ODAC) men's basketball win over league-leading Randolph-Macon Monday night. Randolph-Macon's Adam Krovic, who entered the game as the ODAC's leading free-throw shooter (87%), made the first of two free throws with six-tenths of a second left in overtime, but missed the second. Snipes corralled the miss and threw a baseball pass the length of the floor into the Quakers' basket for his sixth three-pointer of the game and an improbable Guilford victory. By Guilford Athletics

Wolfpack gets back on the winning track; Tops Tech, 76-68
[Jan. 17, 2005] Raleigh - NC State found a cure for its woes on Sunday night: A Georgia Tech team it has owned over the last three years. In a 76-68 victory over the 8th ranked Yellow Jackets, the Wolfpack ended one streak and continued another. The Pack's fifth consecutive win over Tech also ended its four-game losing streak. Ilian Evtimov led five players in double figures as NC State (11-5, 1-2) compensated for 38 percent shooting by playing a hustling style of basketball that delighted an emotionally charged crowd of 16,861 at the RBC Center. By WEB RUN - Tony Haynes
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NCSU's Brackman shares ACC Rookie of the Week honor
[Dec. 20, 2004] NC State's Andrew Brackman is being recognized for his play in the Wolfpack's games against Louisiana-Lafayette and Washington last week. The 6-10 forward from Cincinnati has been named Co-ACC Rookie of the Week along with North Carolina's Marvin Williams. In two games last week, Brackman averaged 17.0 points and 4.5 rebounds, while also shooting 70 percent from the floor.

2004-05 ACC Men's Basketball Schedule
[Dec. 20, 2004] A record-setting 261 television appearances involving Atlantic Coast Conference teams headline the league's 2004-05 basketball schedule. The schedule boasts an all-time high 172 televised games involving ACC teams and marks the 10th-straight year that the league has had more than 200 television appearances.