Three Weekends of Great Basketball

Two Saturdays ago Dook - Last Saturday Clemson - Yesterday Carolina.

It's been a fun three weekends. It's always fun when you win. After 25 years of, at best - mediocrity, NC State Basketball is finally back.

Still - we had a second half let down - just like at Wake Forest during the week. At WF - a 16 point second half lead and subsequent let down ended up a 1 point loss. With UNC at home - we had a 28 point lead - which was enough to withstand the furious UNC comeback. Close to the end - UNC cut it to five points. This should not be happening. We should have put both teams away by 15 or more points. Our guys have got to figure out how to maintain intensity even with a huge lead.

And next Saturday? Miami comes to town. 5 - 0 in the ACC, 14 - 3 Overall, and a top 25 ranking (which actually should be higher). Miami may not have the raw talent - but they have experience. They have two fifth year seniors and a good bench. State will have it's hands full for a 3rd weekend in a row.

And we have to travel to Virgina Tuesday. No team can take any other team for granted this year in the ACC. Heck - that's pretty much the way is it all around the country this year in college basketball. As soon as a team is ranked Number 1 - it loses the following week. Right now - I'd say there are about 7 teams that should all be tied for the Number 1 ranking. And there's another 10 or 15 teams that could beat the top 7 on any given night. Parity is real this year. It's going to be a wide open NCAA Tournament - and tons of fun.

Work

Work is busy. I'm trying to wrap up 2 major projects - get another started - and a couple other smaller projects to work as well. And - we may try to revive our FCAP program - which would be a very major undertaking.

I'm busy for sure. Actually - overloaded at the moment.

Sure is better than not enough work to do.