RALEIGH — Indiana guard Victor Oladipo was a step ahead of N.C. State's Scott Wood, with a clear path to the basket.
With his team down three points with less than 3 minutes to play, Wood played the percentages and sent Oladipo to the foul line, instead of ceding an easy basket.
Referee Earl Walton called a flagrant foul on Wood, giving the Hoosiers two free throws plus possession of the ball.
RALEIGH – This one wasn’t close or dramatic, but N.C. State fans will take it.
An 82-67 victory over Elon on Friday night in front of a near sellout crowd at Reynolds Coliseum was fueled by a balanced scoring attack and solid defense from the Wolfpack.
RALEIGH — Considering how some of the other ACC basketball teams have struggled in their preseason games, N.C. State's 102-61 win over Flagler College on Monday was an unqualified success.
The Wolfpack, in first-year coach Mark Gottfried's first game, showed a promising spark on offense, with a new up-tempo style, — and the old shooting sensibility of Scott Wood (24 points) — in a relatively elementary dismissal of the Division II Saints.
In the end, there was too much of a pull at N.C. State for T.J. Warren to play college basketball anywhere else.
Warren, one of the top high school basketball players in the country, chose the Wolfpack over Georgetown on Wednesday.
He joins his friends, top recruits Rodney Purvis and Tyler Lewis, in the Wolfpack's recruiting class of 2012, and joins the program where his father played 32 years ago.
Jim Harrick will occasionally visit N.C. State's practice and spend time with the team and new coach Mark Gottfried but he does not have an official role with the Wolfpack, Gottfried said Wednesday.
Harrick, the former UCLA coach, was at N.C. State's practice on Tuesday, wearing an N.C. State shirt and carrying a clipboard. Gottfried spent seven seasons as an assistant for Harrick at UCLA, including the 1995 national title team.
N.C. State is close to a home-and-home series with Kansas, new basketball coach Mark Gottfried told the Raleigh Sports Club on Wednesday.
The Wolfpack would go to Lawrence in December 2012, with Kansas coming to the RBC Center in December 2013. Gottfried said the contract had not yet been finalized and signed.
Mark Gottfried will make a unique entrance at N.C. State's football game against South Alabama on Saturday.
As part of Military Appreciation Day, Gottfried, State's new basketball coach, will make a tandem parachute jump into Carter-Finley Stadium with the ROTC Ranger parachute team at halftime.
New N.C. State basketball coach Mark Gottfried landed a top national recruit from Durham on Monday.
Gottfried had to look harder for forward Thomas de Thaey, who has signed a Letter of Intent to play for the Wolfpack this season. Gottfried added de Thaey on Wednesday from Belgium's national program via the Canary Islands. The 6-8, 235-pound power forward joins wing Tyler Harris and guard Jaqwan Raymond in State's class of 2011 commitments.
The first day new N.C. State basketball coach Mark Gottfried was allowed to talk to recruits, he called Torian Graham.
The timing of the call in early April made a big impression on Graham, one of the top recruits in the country who made a verbal commitment to the Wolfpack on Monday.
"He told me I was their top priority," Graham said. "That meant a lot to me."
Mark Gottfried wasted little time tweaking the 2012-13 basketball schedule after taking over at N.C. State, and he has big plans for the future, including potential trips to Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
Gottfried said Wednesday about 80 percent of the schedule was set when he walked in the door, and only about 20 percent of that remains.
