MSU fans realize the Pack is a legit threat. ACC is KING.
Posted By admin on November 28, 2007
tonight. No. 10 MSU (4-1) hosts No. 24 N.C. State (4-1) as part of the annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Wolfpack bring in plenty of size and firepower, enough to threaten for a win at Breslin and an ACC title.
Series: N.C. State leads 5-1, including a 69-58 comeback win in the last meeting, in the first round of the 2002 NCAA Tournament.
Prediction: MSU 72, N.C. State 70
spartansinsider. This guy is the whiniest loser to ever sit at a keyboard. You have to read this entry, it’s laughable. I’m guessing most fans up there don’t hold this disdain for the ACC’s dominance, and propensity to declare it. He’s just a sore loser. Here are a few of his statements:
One thing for sure, it’s always been skewed toward the ACC.
The ACC Basketball Media Guide singles out the challenge as a marquee event; the 2006-07 Big Ten guide didn’t even mention it as a separate entity.
One league takes it as seriously as a street fight… and the other just seems to consider it as an opportunity to schedule games against ACC opponents without having to beg.
…the ACC didn’t expand to 12 teams until ‘05, meaning that for the first six Challenges, there was always a chance for one of the weaker Big Ten teams to be involved.
Izzo thinks too much is made of the rivalry between the conferences, especially since the ACC holds it over the Big Ten in recruiting battles.
spartansweblog.wordpress.com These guys are actually pretty fair and good spirited about the game.
livingstondaily.com Nothing special, just local Michigan coverage.
Izzo said of N.C. State. “They have size and the second-best freshman big man in the country. We’ll have the chance to play two within a week’s period of time — (UCLA’s Kevin) Love last week and (J.J.) Hickson this week.”
(Hickson and) MSU freshman guard Chris Allen were AAU teammates in Georgia and remain friends. Allen had a message for his teammates: “They’ve been watching film, and all he’s doing is banging. I’ve been telling them don’t back off him because he will shoot the shot.”
thats fine, jj is only a nominal 75% from the field….. so, yeah. go ahead and let him “shoot the shot”