Originally Posted by
Newton_14
It was a magical season and run. One thing that gets lost on people I think, is that NC State team was actually a darn good basketball team. If they don't lose Whitenburg to the broken foot (suffered against Sampson and UVA in what was a thriller of a game) then they don't come close to losing 10 games that season. They were a Cinderella, yes, but deceivingly so. They did come periously close to losing to Pepperdine in double OT in game one, and they had to come from behind and use the fouling ploy in several games, but man they beat some top notch teams over the course of that run, including unc with Jordan & Perkins, UVA with Sampson (twice), a great UNLV team with Armon Gilliam, and of course the great Houston team.
Just an amazing run. Thanks for starting the thread. We should always pay homage to that Coach and that team each season. "Whitenburg for 3, that's a long wayyyyy, they did it! they did it! Lorenzo Charles dunks it and the Wolfpack have won the National Championship"! Probably not the exact call, but it was something to that effect.