North Carolina Central

[CloneZone13]

I was nervous at first, but you all have been a great support group. As we get closer to Friday, I'm getting more and more confident. The lifelong Cyclone fan in me, makes me want to be nervous, but THIS team has not given me any reason to feel that way. They went 14-0, never looking over or going flat for an entire game against weaker competition. Even when they went down, way down, they've almost always been able to come back to win. They know how to win Tournaments (Hawaii and Big XII). They have a fight and an edge to them that I've never seen in an ISU basketball team, and I was around for end of Orr, Floyd, Eustachy days. Bring anyone on! We're ready for these fights!!

 

[NCCUQUE82]

If we lose to you I will buy at least 2 NCCU T-shirts, and I hate you guys (I hate all teams we play the week we play them).

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[Gunnerclone]

I hope we do destroy NC Central. But I'm not confident. They are in my opinion under-seeded a tad bit and would literally pose a threat to any 3 seed.

 

[Bret44]

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I would wear this sweatshirt. Actually pretty nice.

Ya, know, for a bum.

 

[CarolinaCy]

Not seeing what's irrational about mine either. I didn't say we are ****ed, all I said was we probably win this and everyone starts thinking about where this team could go again.

Sorry, was just quoting you to show you some of the other comments in the thread. Didn't mean to imply that you were freaking out about NCC.

 

[NCCUQUE82]

No they don't. They don't go deep into their bench, basically like us 7, sometimes 8 guys deep, but the two tallest guys don't get any playing time. Their biggest guys with PT are 6'7" and 6'8". Georges and Ejim should dominate them inside.

6-9, 6-11 guys or redshirts this year.

 

[Blandboy]

Anyone know when the game time will be announced for this one?

9:50 p.m. on TNT

 

[CyFan61]

6-9, 6-11 guys or redshirts this year.

AKA we don't care, just as you shouldn't care about Abdel Nader or Jameel McKay.

 

[SoapyCy]

where does a coach get game film from a team like this? do teams have to provide it to others? do schools have special permissions with espn to get any film of any game, etc? how does it work?

 

[peteypie]

AKA we don't care, just as you shouldn't care about Abdel Nader or Jameel McKay.

Easy killer. He was just responding to me, and I was responding to a question that one of our fellow CFers asked if the 6'9" and 6'11" guys played.

Lay off the Redbull in the mornings.

 

[Rhoadhoused]

where does a coach get game film from a team like this? do teams have to provide it to others? do schools have special permissions with espn to get any film of any game, etc? how does it work?

I remember hearing somewhere that teams have access to or buy something called Synergy which has tape of all the teams in the country and I think it has advanced data on tons of different stuff for each team.

 

[CyFan61]

Easy killer. He was just responding to me, and I was responding to a question that one of our fellow CFers asked if the 6'9" and 6'11" guys played.

Lay off the Redbull in the mornings.

LEMME AT 'IM

 

[Wesley]

Curses and jinxes aren't real. Hampton has no effect on this team. Don't be ridiculous. Nobody should have to say this.

However, the memory of Hampton from the MEAC sticks with us. NCCU plays better from the front. Thios is one game we need to come out crisp asnd take no for an answer.

DESTROY NCCU

 

[VeloClone]

Here is a little breakdown of NCCU I pulled together. This is stat heavy so NCCUQUE feel free to color this black and white picture.

Starters:
14 Jeremy Ingram 6-3 175 G 34 min, .375 from 3 (66 made), 8.3 FT att/gm (.769), 3.8 R, 20.6 ppg
40 Alfonzo Houston 6-3 190 G 26 min, .160 from 3, 9.6 ppg
1 Jay Copeland 6-7 255 F 22.2 min, .531 overall %, 5.9 rpg, 8.1 ppg, fouled out 9 times
10 Karamo Jawara 6-8 220 F 29.6 min, .490 overall, .257 3% (9 made), 4.8 R, 79 A, 28 TO, 22 B, 29 S, 7.2 ppg
32 Emanuel Chapman 6-1 160 G, 34 min, .365 3% (23 made), .818 FT%, 4.3 R, 6.5 A, 2.5 R, 2.1 S, 6.8 ppg

Bench:
2 Jordan Parks 6-7 200 G/F 19 min, .662% overall, .583 3% (7 made), 5.6 R, 38 B, 10.2 ppg
13 Reggie Groves 6-2 190 G 18 min, .328 3% (41 made, 11 2pt made), 5.1 ppg
5 Ebuka Anyaorah 6-4 194 G 9 min, .533% overall, 1.0 R, 3.0 ppg

Also:
0 Dante Holmes shoots .407 3% with 11 makes on the season in 212 min
3 Juwan Moody shoots .391 3% with 9 makes on the season in 137 min

Do you want to fill in the blanks, NCCUQUE?

 

[peteypie]

Here is a little breakdown of NCCU I pulled together. This is stat heavy so NCCUQUE feel free to color this black and white picture.

Starters:
14 Jeremy Ingram 6-3 175 G 34 min, .375 from 3 (66 made), 8.3 FT att/gm (.769), 3.8 R, 20.6 ppg
40 Alfonzo Houston 6-3 190 G 26 min, .160 from 3, 9.6 ppg
1 Jay Copeland 6-7 255 F 22.2 min, .531 overall %, 5.9 rpg, 8.1 ppg, fouled out 9 times
10 Karamo Jawara 6-8 220 F 29.6 min, .490 overall, .257 3% (9 made), 4.8 R, 79 A, 28 TO, 22 B, 29 S, 7.2 ppg
32 Emanuel Chapman 6-1 160 G, 34 min, .365 3% (23 made), .818 FT%, 4.3 R, 6.5 A, 2.5 R, 2.1 S, 6.8 ppg

Bench:
2 Jordan Parks 6-7 200 G/F 19 min, .662% overall, .583 3% (7 made), 5.6 R, 38 B, 10.2 ppg
13 Reggie Groves 6-2 190 G 18 min, .328 3% (41 made, 11 2pt made), 5.1 ppg
5 Ebuka Anyaorah 6-4 194 G 9 min, .533% overall, 1.0 R, 3.0 ppg

Also:
0 Dante Holmes shoots .407 3% with 11 makes on the season in 212 min
3 Juwan Moody shoots .391 3% with 9 makes on the season in 137 min

Do you want to fill in the blanks, NCCUQUE?

Any team that's smaller than us does not worry me. Again, Ejim and Niang will combine for 50+

 

[Cycl1]

Any team that's smaller than us does not worry me. Again, Ejim and Niang will combine for 50+

I liked it better when I was in your signature.

 

[CLONEing around]

After watching some replays of their games, I don't think they can guard Niang or Ejim on the perimeter. They have one guy who can bang around underneath and they seem to battle for rebounds pretty well. Seems like we just need to spread them out on offense. If we can stay in front of Ingram, rattle him a little, I don't think it will be close. If nobody can hit from deep, it will allow them to pack it in and really battle us on the boards, it could be close. But I love the defensive intensity we had in the Big 12 tournament. If the Cyclones bring that defensive mentality to this game, they don't have to shoot great to win.

 

[colbycheese]

I didn't read through all 19 pages of this thread, so this may have been mentioned. However, the NCCU win against NC State keeps getting brought up. I was a grad student at NC State last fall when that game occurred. NC State had one of their worst performances under Mark Gottfried that game. NCSU's best player, TJ Warren and another starter had fouled out for overtime. That, combined with a ridiculous free-through percentage, going 41 for 45 from the line helped NCCU come out on top. The game was pretty flukey, and a perfect storm. I wouldn't worry about it that much. It was their first win over an ACC team ever.

Here's the News & Observer article on the game.

Also, whoever said NCSU was NCCU's rival has no idea what they're talking about. NCCU just moved up to D1, and there is little to no history between these two schools other than the fact that State is in Raleigh, and Central is in Durham.

 

[ISUChippewa]

Exactly. I've understood what you meant throughout this thread. In essence, you're showing a little humility and respect to the opponent.

Thanks, and you're pretty much spot-on with your assessment.

I've had the good fortune to be able to attend 3 of the last 4 NCAA tournaments in person; once to watch UNI in 2010, and the other two to watch ISU the last couple of years. Unfortunately I'll have to watch this one at home. But when I've gone to these tournaments I've made it a point to watch as much live basketball as I can, even when ISU isn't playing (partly just because I love college basketball, partly to justify the price of session tickets). The one common ingredient I've noticed in watching all of the games I've seen is good, high-quality, very-well played basketball by most of the teams I've seen, regardless of seed. Throw out all the data and analytics, etc., most of the basketball that I've watched passes the "eye test". Back in 2010 I watched #16 seed Lehigh and eventual lottery pick C.J. McCollum hang with Kansas for about 30 minutes, and I also saw what happened when Kansas took UNI lightly (to my great joy and satisfaction).

I'm self-aware enough to know that I might be coming across as being obnoxiously emphatic on being "respectful" or "humble" to NCCU, but I really, really don't want to get too overconfident, or cocky, and I don't want other Cyclone fans too either. Hell, if nothing else it's just bad karma.

 

[NorthCyd]

I didn't read through all 19 pages of this thread, so this may have been mentioned. However, the NCCU win against NC State keeps getting brought up. I was a grad student at NC State last fall when that game occurred. NC State had one of their worst performances under Mark Gottfried that game. NCSU's best player, TJ Warren and another starter had fouled out for overtime. That, combined with a ridiculous free-through percentage, going 41 for 45 from the line helped NCCU come out on top. The game was pretty flukey, and a perfect storm. I wouldn't worry about it that much. It was their first win over an ACC team ever.

Here's the News & Observer article on the game.

Also, whoever said NCSU was NCCU's rival has no idea what they're talking about. NCCU just moved up to D1, and there is little to no history between these two schools other than the fact that State is in Raleigh, and Central is in Durham.

41 of 45! So I guess NCCU was benefitting from the refs befuddling everyone with the way they were calling the new interpretations of the rules. Well,the refs have basically reverted back to the way they were always calling games before this year.