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Mike Potter ·
25 Jan 2010, 10:43 PM ·
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REYNOLDS COLISEUM/RALEIGH Kellie Harper gets her first test of her ability to coach a big home-court upset for N.C. State tonight.
The opponent is archrival UNC, Sylvia Hatchell’s Tar Heels being the preseason favorites in the ACC and currently ranked No. 14 nationally. And the regional TV cameras are in the house.
Truth be told, the Wolfpack has performed a little better than expected so far while the Tar Heels have hit a couple of unexpected bumps.
UNC has won 17 of the last 19 meetings, although the Wolfpack has more wins against the Tar Heels than anybody and is looking for its 50th victory in the series.
One of the most interesting games in the ACC last season was UNC’s 75-66 win over the Wolfpack in the Smith Center for Hatchell’s 800th victory. The Tar Heels came back stronger in the second meeting, rolling to a 74-57 win. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
7 Jan 2010, 1:05 AM ·
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Kellie Harper smiles after her first win as N.C. State head coach. (File photo by Rob Rowe).
REYNOLDS COLISEUM/RALEIGH - Kellie Harper will coach her first ACC game as N.C. State women’s basketball coach tonight, and it’s no easy assignment.
The Wolfpack (10-5) will look for an upset over defending ACC champion Maryland (12-2) in the conference opener for both teams.
It’s one of three games involving Triangle Division I women’s teams tonight. No. 9 Duke (12-2) will also open ACC play tonight at Clemson (9-7), while N.C. Central (3-11) entertains future MEAC foe Maryland-Eastern Shore (2-6).
N.C. State has a pair of impressive non-conference road wins this season, victories at both Old Dominion and Southern California.
“Fortunately for our staff and for me I treat every game the same,” Harper said during a press conference on Wednesday at Reynolds. “Whether we’re playing Columbia or Maryland our scouting reports are identical, and our preparation is the same. I think that consistency not only helps our players but I think it helps our staff. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
28 Nov 2009, 1:00 AM ·
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N.C. Central coach Mose Rison is 14-18 after three seasons, and the future continues to look bright. (File photo by Rob Rowe)
N.C. Central’s football season has been over for nearly a week now, and for the second straight season Mose Rison’s club finished with a 4-7 record.
After a tough start in which the Eagles went 0-6 with road defeats to heavily favored Liberty, Appalachian State and Duke, the third-year head coach had set a goal of winning the last five games to finish 5-6. And because of a road defeat at Old Dominion in the ninth game of the season, it didn’t happen.
But what kind of shape is the NCCU program in right now? Reality says it’s pretty good. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
23 Nov 2009, 11:57 PM ·
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Kellie Harper (pictured) got her first big win as women’s basketball coach at N.C. State Monday night.
Tia Bell and Marissa Kastanek scored 12 points each to lead the Wolfpack to a 62-52 road win over Colonial Athletic Association power Old Dominion at the Constant Center.
The Wolfpack (4-1) won its third straight game while the Monarchs, who shot just 34.6 percent, fell to 0-3.
State, which led 32-25 at the half, sealed the result by making its final eight free-throw attempts after a 1-for-7 start at the line in its first road game of the season.
Shadasia Green led ODU with 13 points.
Bonae Holston, who is from nearby Newport News, had eight points and eight rebounds for State.
The Wolfpack’s next game is against Northwestern State on Friday at 4 in the opening round of Vanderbilt’s tournament.
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Mike Potter ·
23 Nov 2009, 1:15 AM ·
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Duke looks to stay on track against a tough opponent tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium, while N.C. State goes looking for a surprise on the road.
Joanne P. McCallie’s No. 11 Blue Devils will be looking for their 15th straight win at Cameron when they face defending Atlantic 10 champion UNC Charlotte at 7 p.m. It’s “Take a Kid to the Game” Night, with one child admitted free with each paying adult.
First-year N.C. State coach Kellie Harper (pictured) will seek her first road win with the Wolfpack tonight, when she takes her team against 0-2 Old Dominion at the Constant Center in Norfolk.
State will be an underdog tonight simply because the game is on the road, but it’s the type of game the Wolfpack might need to finish with a winning record and get a post-season tournament spot. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
21 Nov 2009, 7:30 PM ·
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NCCU senior Rashad Fox celebrates after he blocks a pass from Savannah State. (Photo by Rob Rowe)
O’KELLY-RIDDICK STADIUM/DURHAM It’s the season football finale at N.C. Central, and so far the whole campaign has been a mixed bag.
NCCU went 0-6 through an extremely tough first “half” of the schedule, in which the Eagles dropped a pair of very winnable games in overtime.
Coach Mose Rison at that point set a goal of winning the last five in a row. Old Dominion derailed that idea two weeks ago, but now the idea is to win four of the last five and match last season’s 4-7 finish.
The opponent is Savannah State (2-7), which is reeling with a couple of losses to teams below the Division I level. NCCU has beaten the Tigers the past two seasons, including the season-ender in Durham last year.
The home team is a solid favorite today on Senior Day, and responds with a 35-14 victory. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
20 Nov 2009, 11:01 PM ·
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N.C. State coach Kellie Harper, with husband and assistant coach Jon Harper and Marissa Kastanek, #23, in the background, directs traffic during her 100th win on Friday night against Davidson. (Photo by Jeremy Lange).
REYNOLDS COLISEUM/RALEIGH Kellie Harper is quickly into her fourth home game in her short tenure as head coach at N.C. State, and tonight she has an opportunity to reach an early milestone.
The 32-year-old former Western Carolina coach, who comes into the game with a 2-1 record this season, can get her 100th career victory. Not in the realm of the 1,000-plus wins her mentor Pat Summitt has at Tennessee, but how many people have started careers as college or even high school coaches and never gotten to triple figures?
Tonight she’ll be facing an old foe, at least for her. Harper was 6-5 in her tenure at WCU against Southern Conference rival Davidson, which oddly hasn’t played the Wolfpack since 1976. The Wildcats, under former Wolfpack assistant Annette Watts, are 0-2.
And it’s a mismatch from the start, en route to a 79-54 Wolfpack victory.
The Wolfpack leads 3-0, then 10-2, then 41-15 at halftime.
Everything the home team does seems to work pretty well, as State outrebounds the Wildcats 30-11 at the break and shoots 47.1 percent to Davidson’s 24.1. Bonae Holston and Tia Bell are already in double figures at the break. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
10 Nov 2009, 5:53 PM ·
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PEARSON CAFETERIA/DURHAM N.C. Central no longer has a chance to finish better than last season’s 4-7 mark.
But what the 2-7 Eagles do have looming on the schedule is a big rivalry game.
That will happen on Saturday at 1, when the Eagles visit former CIAA rival Winston-Salem State (1-8) at Bowman Gray Stadium.
Kermit Blount’s Rams had already been admitted to the MEAC, which NCCU will join as a participant next season after recently being approved for membership, but the university decided to give up on the move to Division I and head back to the CIAA.
The series is tied 21-21 after NCCU won 23-16 last season in Durham.
“I watched (WSSU) on film all day Sunday and all day yesterday,” NCCU coach Mose Rison said during his weekly press conference. “I wanted to make sure I knew what that football team was all about. I know they’re 1-8 and they’ve had some adversity. Kermit has done a great job of keeping that football team together. They’re playing hard. They really are. Last Saturday against Delaware State they were down 24-7 and found a way to come back and make that game close (losing 24-21.)
“They found a way to stay in that ball game. They’ve had a lot of off-the-field distractions and that’s made it really tough. But they’re a good football team, extremely physical on defense. They have some good players. They want to bring pressure. They have tremendous size. We’re going to have to play top-level football on Saturday.”
Rison said that’s the kind of football the Eagles played most of the second half on Saturday, when a 42-28 loss at Old Dominion on the Monarchs’ homecoming day derailed NCCU’s quest to win its final five games. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
7 Nov 2009, 10:52 PM ·
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N.C. Central’s chances to win its last five games of the season came to an end on Saturday.
But the Eagles almost pulled the game out of the fire.
NCCU overcame a 28-point deficit to tie the game before falling 42-28 at Old Dominion in the Monarchs’ homecoming game at Foreman Field.
Thomas DeMarco stayed on his torrid pace, rushing for 224 yards and four touchdowns and throwing for 169 yards another score for ODU (8-2), which is in its first year of football since 1940.
Michael Johnson (pictured) completed 26 of 42 passes for 249 yards and two touchdowns for NCCU (2-7). Geo Irvine caught six of the passes for a game-high 87 yards, while also throwing a touchdown pass to Will Scott. Scott had five catches for 57 yards and two touchdowns.
NCCU linebacker Calvin Hillie was in on 12 tackles, also intercepting a pass to set up Tim Shankle’s touchdown with 10:41 left that tied the score at 28-28.
The Eagles got a scare with 8:20 left when tight end Earthan Ward was taken off the field on a medical cart following a frightening hit. But preliminary reports indicated that Ward had not suffered a serious injury.
NCCU will visit long-time rival Winston-Salem State on Nov. 14 before ending its season at home on Nov. 21 against Savannah State.
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Mike Potter ·
6 Nov 2009, 4:02 PM ·
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N.C. Central's offensive unit, with #75 offensive tackle Gabriel Manns the biggest of the bunch, huddles against Duke. (File photo by Rob Rowe),
N.C. Central is going to get a very big test on the football field on Saturday.
The first half of the Eagles’ season was a disappointment. NCCU, facing such monumental challenges as games at Liberty, Appalachian State and Duke, was competitive at times in those conteste but saved its worst play for the weaker opponents.
So the start was 0-6, and at that point Coach Mose Rison challenged his team to win its last five games. NCCU has rolled a couple of inferior opponents at home to improve to 2-6, but the next one is the hard part.
The Eagles will visit Old Dominion (7-2) in the Monarchs’ sold-out 2 p.m. homecoming contest at Foreman Field in Norfolk, Va.
Monarchs coach Bobby Wilder has undoubtedly put together a fine program in two seasons at the helm, including a time last season when the team held practice every day but there were no games and everybody was redshirted.
ODU clearly knows what it’s doing in putting together winning programs, and one of the first things a winning program has to do is win. Continue reading »
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