Loserville Tardinals are being pretty aggressive with their challenge

2/9/2026 7:04:35 PM

Dogshit already

2/9/2026 7:09:38 PM

Start not optimal

2/9/2026 7:11:38 PM

Defense is failing to defend which is one of the key elements of good defense

2/9/2026 7:12:35 PM

DW has had some nice looks. But 0/4 start

2/9/2026 7:21:05 PM

Weak as hell foul call on TA before the under 12

2/9/2026 7:24:05 PM

Feels like we’re getting hit a lot on drives and not getting to the line. UL is getting those calls

2/9/2026 7:31:30 PM

Really not sure what we’re doing on D

2/9/2026 7:35:43 PM

McNeil a non factor on offensive and seemed to have a couple defensive mistakes early. Q not playing particularly well…3 turnovers and not making a lot happen offensively. And the defense is back to its old ways of giving up lots of open looks from every where on the court. We also can’t seem to buy a foul despite lots of very hard contact from UL

Also Jay Williams is a fucking dork

[Edited on February 9, 2026 at 7:43 PM. Reason : And giving up lots of offensive boards again ]

2/9/2026 7:42:45 PM

Yeah we need to lock in on defense. Dunno if they're gonna shoot like this all night either.

2/9/2026 7:43:46 PM

Almost like that historic ACC winning streak was a result of playing a bunch of bad teams

2/9/2026 7:45:32 PM

Quote :

"Dunno if they're gonna shoot like this all night either."

Yep. I have seen some good defensive possessions from us and they're still 8-11 from 3 point range.

2/9/2026 7:55:09 PM

Yeah, I don't even hate our defense that much. There were mistakes for sure on a number of possessions. But we played a bunch of great possessions where they just drilled a tough shot on us. I think our bigger problems is the rebounding and offensive possessions that end in turnovers/bad shots that set them up for a fast break.

[Edited on February 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM. Reason : Well, we are just completely losing people here to start the 2nd half ]

2/9/2026 8:05:43 PM

Looking like a Mark Gottfried team out there tonight. Not gonna keep watching.

They hit tough shots for sure but defensively we were pretty dogshit. Also offensively pretty dog shit

[Edited on February 9, 2026 at 8:23 PM. Reason : Bed beckoning ]

2/9/2026 8:22:26 PM

About time to switch over to the Hornets going for W10

2/9/2026 8:24:15 PM

IMO this is worse to watch than the 24 point game. Because at least we played good defense in that one.

2/9/2026 8:26:10 PM

McNeill was non existent on offense and just plain bad on defense. Q looked like Ben Middlebrooks missing layups tonight. Our defense was pathetic, at some point when two guys are scoring over 30 points you might want to at least get a hand in their face, even if they are a few feet behind the line. These are not the style points we need for our ranking. After a game like this I think we can forget being ranked this season. I mentioned that this was the start of a stretch against Louisville, UVA, UNC, and Duke to see if we were a contender. Doesn’t look like it after one game.

2/9/2026 11:15:13 PM

We haven't beaten a single really good team this year. Clemson is as much of a fraud as we are. We both have built a resume without top tier wins and having incredibly easy first half of the conference schedules. I have a feeling neither of us is going to be in the double bye picture in a couple weeks. More likely fighting for a single bye.

A lot of people got tricked by a win streak against the dregs of the acc. I mean i guess it's good we can beat them most of the time, but we're pretty clearly not a top 25 team

2/9/2026 11:47:15 PM

^^

I have a feeling McNeil is about to see Able or Arcenaux steal his starting spot. Not trying to hate on him too much, I just think he needs some more time to figure out the defensive side of things against elite competition. It seems like he was absolutely scorched by SMU's guards and now Louisville's. And he wasn't able to really produce enough offensively against those same guards to offset the defensive lapses.

Able might screw up some on defense too, but he seems to have more length and lateral quickness to compensate. And he has been showing the ability the last few games to create offensive pressure on multiple levels. Where McNeil seems content to always jack up forced 3s with guys right on him rather than drive and force a help defender to rotate over.

And if not Able, Arcenaux seems to bring a defensive intensity that the rest of the team picks up on. So at least when we open up a game shooting like shit, maybe we can get a few stops and stay in it until we get the offense going.

2/9/2026 11:53:22 PM

Quote :

" More likely fighting for a single bye."

3 game lead on the 9th place team with 6 to play. Yes we have a tough schedule but I don’t really think we’re in any real danger of finishing 10th and not getting any bye

2/10/2026 7:38:40 AM

Well Fuck

2/10/2026 10:16:30 AM

That was very unfun

2/10/2026 10:48:09 AM

Quote :

"3 game lead on the 9th place team with 6 to play. Yes we have a tough schedule but I don’t really think we’re in any real danger of finishing 10th and not getting any bye"

I think there's a very real scenario where we only win 1 more game and some of those teams currently hovering around. 500 win 5+ games. Also some of those other teams have up to 8 games remaining.

2/10/2026 11:00:35 AM

Maybe! I think it’s more likely that we go like 3-3 the rest of the way and finish pretty comfortably above the 10 spot. I’m under no delusion that we’re some juggernaut. 1-5 the rest of the way is possible but not a likely scenario imo. We also have head to head tiebreaker over FSU, VT, SMU if it comes to that

[Edited on February 10, 2026 at 11:43 AM. Reason : G]

2/10/2026 11:41:48 AM

In the chase for top 4, UNC picked up a L last night.

[Edited on February 11, 2026 at 8:12 AM. Reason : H]

2/11/2026 7:59:33 AM

So my Rocky analogy was a little off. The other night was Rocky 4. We were Apollo Creed, and Louisville was Ivan Drago. The state fans were the black dude yelling at Rocky to throw in the towel.

2/11/2026 11:43:07 AM

Quote :

"Clemson is as much of a fraud as we are."

2/11/2026 10:50:10 PM

Nobody really knows what you mean. A middle of the pack NCAA tourney team is a fraud? Who are they defrauding? The 30 teams behind them that could maybe beat them 4 times out of 10?

2/11/2026 11:56:04 PM

Our NET ranking is much better than the actual team that is on the floor. We're gaming the system. Which is fine i guess if your main goal is to make the NCAA tournament. It's not good if your goal is to win. We haven't shown we can beat good teams yet...and there's six games left in the regular season.

2/12/2026 1:11:37 AM

Do you even know what ranking we are in the NET right now? Because you are talking like we're in the top 20 or something and we are not. We've gone on the road and beaten two teams within 5 spots of us in the NET rankings (SMU and Clemson). If you don't count either of them as good teams with the ranking they have, then why are you acting like we ourselves are in some super elevated, undeserved position? Where would you say we belong exactly if not in the tier we are right now?

[Edited on February 12, 2026 at 2:29 AM. Reason : .]

2/12/2026 2:20:19 AM

We have the head to head tie breaker over Clemson so when we’re battling for that 9th place ACC spot, it’s nice to have that win in our back pocket

2/12/2026 6:13:14 AM

Justin will not rest until he convinces the world that nc state is bad in every sport

2/12/2026 6:56:11 AM

It's just his way of communicating

2/12/2026 10:16:49 AM

UNC’s Caleb Wilson out with a fractured hand. So now if we beat them next week we are still frauds. And if we lose to them then we’re definitely frauds.

2/12/2026 3:18:14 PM

THEN LET ME BE A FRAUD

2/12/2026 4:34:26 PM

The Wolfpack will face the Hurricanes at the Lenovo Center this evening. But you won’t be seeing Jordan Staal or Brandon Bussi out there on the ice. In fact, the game will not even be on ice. That’s because it’s a basketball game and the Miami Hurricanes will be the opponent.

2/14/2026 7:16:28 AM

Wtf?????

2/14/2026 10:44:56 AM

To revisit a conversation from last month…FSU is pretty clearly not the worst team in the ACC.

GT, however, most definitely is.

2/14/2026 4:03:39 PM

^^^ Well, technically...they are still on the ice

^ GT's continued ineptitude at basketball since playing for the championship ~23 years ago is mind boggling. You'd think a half decent coach could just show up to a couple high schools in ATL to recruit and roll out a tournament team most years.

2/14/2026 4:07:34 PM

I’ve heard the tough academics excuse used for GT but idk how much that really applies anymore….and if it does apply, then it’s 100% self inflicted.

2/14/2026 4:16:21 PM

Too much shooting from Q. And bad rebounding from the team.

2/14/2026 4:25:51 PM

Bordering on dogshit. Not there yet but approaching it

2/14/2026 4:28:28 PM

lol at Miami player climbing Qs back and throwing himself on Q and it’s a foul on Q

2/14/2026 4:34:07 PM

I agree that it's a foul on q

2/14/2026 4:35:09 PM

I thought Q had position and the Miami player sold it by just sorta flailing his arms as he jumped.

Idk I’m not a ref

[Edited on February 14, 2026 at 4:37 PM. Reason : We should rebound imo but I’m not a coach ]

2/14/2026 4:36:59 PM

DW and the D stands for dogshit

2/14/2026 4:41:37 PM

Arceneaux was playing well so Wade took him out

2/14/2026 4:42:06 PM

Able!

2/14/2026 4:54:43 PM

Weird how we started winning after Copeland got benched

2/14/2026 4:55:12 PM

13 to 4 second chance points. But also Miami 2/7 FTs. They should try harder on their free throws

2/14/2026 5:02:53 PM