North Carolina State University Athletics
Practice Begins Friday For Wolfpack Women
10/16/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
The NC State women's basketball team begins practice Friday to officially start the 2008-09 campaign, the first date allowable under NCAA rules. The team is also scheduled to practice on Saturday.
NC State opens the season on Saturday, Nov. 15 by hosting the Wolfpack Invitational at Reynolds Coliseum. The Pack will take on UW-Milwaukee, while Charlotte and Southern Cal will also do battle that day. Games times have yet to be announced due to the impending kickoff time of the NC State-Wake Forest football game that same day. Start times for all events will be announced on GoPack.com when they become available.
The schedule also features an exhibition game against the Premier Players on Wednesday, Nov. 5., at 7 p.m.
Wolfpack fans, here are a few numbers to crunch on as the hoops season has arrived!!
00 Junior Amber White is just the second NC State player to ever wear this jersey number. LySchale Jones (1995-99) was the first.
1.35 - Tia Bell’s block average that led all ACC freshmen last season.
2 The number of walk on players Coach Yow welcomed to the program this year. It was the first time in her career at NC State that she held open tryouts to fill out the roster.
3 The number of 20-win seasons in the last four seasons.
4 The number of starters back for Coach Yow and the NC State Wolfpack women in 2008-09.
4 The number of schools from the SEC (Auburn, Florida, Ole Miss and South Carolina) the Pack will play this season. The Pack defeated Florida, Ole Miss and South Carolina last season and has won seven straight games over the SEC spanning the last four seasons.
5 The number of players that scored in double figures last year that return in 2008-09.
Shayla Fields (26)
Nikitta Gartrell (20)
Sharnise Beal (6)
Amber White (5)
Brittany Strachan (1)
7 The number of letterwinners back from last season’s club that posted a 21-13 record and made a valiant run to the semifinals of the Postseason Women’s NIT.
7 The number of wins until the Wolfpack women post No. 700 in program history.
9 The number of offensive rebounds Lucy Ellison hauled in against Clemson in the ACC Tournament last season. She is the Wolfpack’s top-returning rebounder after averaging 5.9 caroms per game.
10 The number of states the Wolfpack will compete in during the regular season.
15 The number of former Wolfpack players that have competed in the WNBA with the addition of Khadijah Whittington this summer to the Indiana Fever.
20 The number of NCAA appearances in the last 27 years.
22 The number of 20-win seasons for the Wolfpack women under Coach Yow.
24 The school record for double-doubles in a season set last season by Khadijah Whittington.
30 One of only 30 teams with more than 650 wins in NCAA Division I history and ranks among the top-25 all-time winningest programs in history.
34 - Head Coach Kay Yow returns for her 34th season with the Wolfpack.
35 The Wolfpack has only lost one of its last 36 non-conference home games. In fact they Pack hasn’t lost back-to-back non-conference home games since 2002.
36 - The number of minutes Shayla Fields averaged last season that led all of the ACC.
57.9 - percentage of last year’s rebounding returns.
59.1 - percentage of last year’s scoring returns.
67 - of the last 69 opponents have shot less than 50.0% from the field.
96.8 The percentage of minutes played by Shayla Fields in ACC games last season. 542-of-560 minutes.
119 The number of blocks by junior college transfer Inga Muciniece had at Barton County CC last season.
120 The Wolfpack has a perfect 120-0 record all-time when allowing less than 50 points.
129 The Pack is 129-1 all-time when allowing 50 points or less.
187 - Senior guard Shayla Fields enters her final season 187 points shy of becoming the 25th NC State player to score 1,000 career points.
346 The number of victories by the Wolfpack women in Reynolds Coliseum.
1,000 Coach Yow is 10 games shy of coaching in her 1,000th career game. She is the longest tenured coach in the active ranks for total seasons as a collegiate head coach as she enters her 38th season overall. Only Tennessee’s Pat Summitt and former Texas coach Jody Condradt have coached more games at one school than Yow at the Division I level.
