After receiving negative feedback from fans, N.C. State has scrapped a new design for its men's basketball jerseys, athletics director Lee Fowler said Tuesday morning.

Last week, N.C. State displayed its new jersey design on its Twitter page. The jersey featured a small "NC" on the front and a much larger "STATE" underneath.

N.C. State AD Lee Fowler spent 40 minutes with 850 the Buzz on Thursday morning.

The Wolfpack Internet Idol covered football, basketball, nonrevenue sports, money and U2 in his long conversation with Adam Gold and Joe Ovies. The most important topic Fowler covered:

• Combo guard Lorenzo Brown still has not been cleared by the NCAA.

Sidney Lowe's fourth season at N.C. State will be the first with his players.

The Wolfpack basketball coach expects progress in 2009-10, not a fight for his job. Lowe's boss, State athletic director Lee Fowler, agrees.

"There's no ultimatum that he has to make the [NCAA] tournament to keep his job," Fowler said Thursday. "The main thing is to make progress."

After N.C. State finished the turbulent 2007-2008 men's basketball season with nine straight losses, Sidney Lowe decided to consult a few veteran college coaches.

They included former Temple legend John Chaney and two other coaches who have won a national title, N.C. State athletics director Lee Fowler said today.

Forty-one ACC games into Sidney Lowe's tenure, N.C. State is 12-29 in conference play.

If this number seems oddly familiar to you, chances are you're a fervent Wolfpack fan.

Ten years ago, N.C. State was 12-29 in its first 41 ACC games under Herb Sendek, Lowe's predecessor. At that time, the Wolfpack was 3-6 in the ACC in Sendek's third season.

In a story published Saturday in The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer, N.C. State athletics director Lee Fowler indicated strong support of basketball coach Sidney Lowe, who is 46-40 in his third season.

Here is more of what Fowler said last week:

N.C. State director of athletics Lee Fowler added another title to his resume on Monday. He’s now a grandfather.

Fowler’s daughter, Ashley Giles, and husband Trevor became parents of a 6-pound, 14-ounce girl just before 9:30 a.m. on Monday in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The youngster is named Raleigh Elizabeth and at 19 inches long, she inherited some of her grandfather’s height genes.

N.C. State welcomes NCHSAA regional meeting

• Read Terry Holland's letter to N.C. State, UNC (PDF)

You know a football rivalry is hot when the athletic directors can't even agree when two schools are supposed to play.

In an e-mail released to the media Wednesday, Terry Holland said East Carolina expects N.C. State to honor a contractual obligation to play five times between now and 2016 unless the schools reach a mutually agreeable alternative schedule.

N.C. State's Lee Fowler said he has a letter dated June 18, 2008, indicating Holland's agreement in principle that the schools will play just three times during that period.

N.C. State trustees today approved a three-year contract extension for Wolfpack baseball coach Elliott Avent, whose pact now runs through 2013. The Pack won an NCAA baseball regional this past season and advanced to Super Regional play for the first time since 2003.

Basketball coach Sidney Lowe, who was given a one-year extension a year ago after his first Wolfpack team won 20 games, did not receive a one-year rollover this year. The Pack was 15-16 in Lowe's second season and no contract recommendation was considered by the trustees in today's
meeting.