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Mike Potter ·
14 Nov 2009, 10:03 PM ·
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Wolfpack broadcaster Patrick Kinas interviews Coach Harper after State loses to Vermont; Harper came into the game, and left, looking for her 99th win. (Photo by Rob Rowe)
REYNOLDS COLISEUM/RALEIGH N.C. State gets its first challenge of the season from a team that played in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament last season.
And there’s a championship on the line, as it’s the final game of the Sheraton Raleigh Wolfpack Invitational.
The consolation game is a barnburner, as Florida International escapes a determined Western Michigan team 64-61 in overtime.
First-year Wolfpack coach Kellie Harper is looking for her 99th career victory in the title game against Vermont. The young coach, an accomplished fashionista, has broken out the red tonight. She was in a pastel gray for the season opener against FIU, but a championship game against a team that won over 20 games last season is extra-special.
Sharon Dawley’s Catamounts turn out to be a very organized, well-oiled bunch and eventually holds on to win the championship 52-47. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
14 Nov 2009, 12:05 AM ·
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N.C. State's new Women's Basketball head coach Kellie Harper watches her team win a see-saw game, 87-71. (Photo by Rob Rowe)
REYNOLDS COLISEUM/RALEIGH Kellie Harper said when she became the head women’s basketball coach at N.C. State she wanted to put her own personal stamp on the program.
That’s what the former Western Carolina coach and Tennessee point guard - who led the Lady Vols to three NCAA titles - needed to do in the wake of replacing the legendary Kay Yow, who died last January after a 22-year fight with breast cancer.
Tonight she leads her veteran team against Florida International, which rolled the Wolfpack 58-42 last season in Miami, in the nightcap of the Sheraton Raleigh Wolfpack Invitational. It’s the second straight season the Wolfpack has opened with a four-team tournament on Kay Yow Court.
Vermont wins the opener over Western Michigan 79-65 and will play in the championship on Saturday night at 6:30.
The Catamounts will be playing the Wolfpack for the title, since State wins a very odd game 87-71.
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Mike Potter ·
1 Nov 2009, 9:16 PM ·
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New coach Kellie Harper will lead her N.C. State women’s basketball team against outside opposition for the first time Monday night at Reynolds Coliseum.
The Wolfpack, which returns 11 of 12 players from last season’s team, will take on North Greenville in a 7 p.m. exhibition.
Harper (pictured), a former Tennessee guard who played on three NCAA title teams, was 97-65 in five seasons at Western Carolina. She led the Catamounts to the Southern Conference title last season.
State was 13-17 last season under the late Kay Yow and then interim head coach Stephanie Glance. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
28 Aug 2009, 4:40 PM ·
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The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced its 2009-10 women’s basketball schedule, and as usual it has plenty of highlights.
The schedule will include 40 televised games including key in-conference matchups as well as some contests which will certainly match Top 10 teams.
The three Triangle teams all open their schedules on Nov. 13.
That night N.C. State will host Florida International - there doesn’t seem to be any controversy with that FIU game - at Reynolds Coliseum in the first regular-season game for new coach Kellie Harper. That will be the nightcap of the first round of the Wolfpack’s season opening tournament which also includes Vermont and Western Michigan.
Also on Nov. 13 UNC will entertain the College of Charleston in what is scheduled to be the first regular-season game in the newly remodeled Carmichael Auditorium, while Duke will be on the road at Houston Baptist. Duke’s first regular-season home game will be Nov. 19 against Georgia Southern.
There is one other interesting ACC opener for Triangle fans, as N.C. Central will visit Maryland on Nov. 14. That is one of five ACC teams the independent Eagles will play, including trips to Duke, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech and a March 14 regular-season finale at UNC after the Tar Heels have already played in the ACC Tournament.
Televised schedule highlights include UNC’s Jan. 9 visit to defending national champion Connecticut in a game to be shown on CBS, Connecticut at Duke on Jan. 18 on ESPN2, UNC at Duke on Feb. 8 (ESPN2), Miami at N.C. State on Feb. 14 for “Pink Frenzy” (ESPN2), Duke at Maryland on Jan. 24 on Fox Sports Net (FSN), UNC at N.C. State on Jan. 25(FSN), and Duke at UNC on Feb. 28 (FSN).
Duke will host N.C. Central on Dec. 28 and N.C. State on Feb. 11
The Triangle teams’ games in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge will all be on Dec. 3, with Ohio State at Duke, Wisconsin at N.C. State and UNC at Michigan State.
The ACC Tournament will be held at Greensboro Coliseum from March 4-7, and Duke has been selected as a site for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament March 20 and 22.
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