{"id":1151,"date":"2011-03-02T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2011-03-03T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T13:20:08","slug":"1151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"N.C. State deserves better than lousy year in basketball, other sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>N.C. State fans can give thanks for football. Other than that, this year has illustrated how new athletics director Debbie Yow has her work cut out for her in West Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine a more disappointing men\u2019s basketball season. State stumbled out of the gate yet again Tuesday night and lost at Virginia, 69-58. This is a Cavaliers team that could barely score Saturday against Boston College, and yet they ran right over N.C. State.<\/p>\n<p>As one Wolfpack fan said recently, the team isn\u2019t even \u201crelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The media picked N.C. State for fourth in the ACC in preseason, a lofty assessment based on a strong recruiting class. But State is now 10<sup>th<\/sup> in the ACC and, as we predicted last month, in danger of having a losing season. The Pack is 15-14 going into Saturday\u2019s home finale with Florida State.<\/p>\n<p>A loss there, and then in Greensboro\u2019s ACC play, puts the Wolfpack under water for the year. State fans should be outraged, but even a fan base with an amazing commitment to its school is greeting this season with a collective shrug.<\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason, Sidney Lowe has not been able to elevate this program, and a season that looked promising has been greeted with deafening indifference from Wolfpack fans.<\/p>\n<p>The football team, obviously, was a bright spot this season.\u00a0 But other than that, it\u2019s almost comical how low N.C. State is across the board in ACC sports.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The women\u2019s basketball team is in 10<sup>th<\/sup> place despite a huge win over North Carolina<\/li>\n<li>The men\u2019s swimming and diving team and the women\u2019s swimming and diving teams both just finished eighth in the ACC championships in February<\/li>\n<li>The wrestling team is in fifth place among the six teams that compete in the ACC \u2013 ahead of only lowly Duke \u2013 heading into this weekend\u2019s ACC championships<\/li>\n<li>The volleyball team finished 11<sup>th<\/sup> in the ACC at 4-12 in league play<\/li>\n<li>Men\u2019s soccer was eighth out of nine teams at 1-5-2 in ACC play<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s soccer was 10<sup>th<\/sup> of 11 teams at 0-9-2 in the conference<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Baseball, softball and tennis are the spring sports that are underway, and State has some potential in those. The Wolfpack does not compete in lacrosse or field hockey, and heck, that\u2019s a good thing for Pack fans who are tired of suffering.<\/p>\n<p>N.C. State has had brighter days \u2013 much brighter days, in fact. But Yow has a big job ahead when it comes energizing an athletics program that is struggling to gain traction across the board. And nothing \u2013 nothing at all \u2013 would do more for the spirit of the school than to find the right man to energize the basketball program and get N.C. State headed toward respectability again in that critical sport.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ncsugate.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1152\" title=\"Ncsugate\" src=\"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ncsugate.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ncsugate.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ncsugate-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Ncsugate-500x235.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N.C. State fans can give thanks for football. Other than that, this year has illustrated how new athletics director Debbie Yow has her work cut&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","category-uncategorized","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1161,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}