North Carolina State University Athletics
Hoosiers Visit Pack For The ACC-Big Ten Challenge
11/28/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 28, 2011
NC State vs. Indiana
RBC Center
Nov. 30, 2011
ESPN2
7:15 PM
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TRANSITION POINTS
• This is the first time that Indiana and NC State have met in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
• The ACC has won 10 of the 12 ACC-Big Ten Challenges played.
• ACC schools own a .605 winning percentage (72-of-119) in Challenge games.
• NC State (5-6) is one of four ACC schools that does not have a winning record in the challenge. The others are Georgia Tech (4-7), Miami (1-3) and Virginia Tech (2-4).
• The Wolfpack has lost its last three games in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, falling to Michigan State, 81-58, in 2007, Northwestern, 65-53, in 2009 and to Wisconsin, 87-48, in 2010.
• NC State has allowed 63.5 points per game in the Challenge.
• Sophomore guard Lorenzo Brown scored a career-high 21 points in the Wolfpack’s 82-67 victory over Elon.
• C.J. Leslie is averaging 16.7 points and 5.7 rebounds while shooting 63 percent (17-of-27) from the the floor. Leslie missed the first three games of the year due to NCAA sanciations for receiving improper benefits.
ACC-BIG TEN CHALLENGE: This is the 13th season of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge with the Atlantic Coast Conference owning a 72-47 mark (.605) in the event that started in 1999.
After winning the first 10 Challenges, the ACC has dropped the previous two to the Big Ten. The last two years, the Big Ten recorded back-to-back 6-5 marks in the event.
NC STATE IN THE ACC-BIG TEN CHALLENGE: NC State owns a 5-6 overall record in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. The Pack is 4-1 at home all-time in the event, while posting a 1-5 roard record.
NC STATE GAME-BY-GAME IN THE ACC-BIG TEN CHALLENGE
1999 - NC State def. No. 18 Purdue, 61-59 (A)
2000 - NC State def. Penn State, 84-76 (H)
2001 - Ohio State def. NC State, 64-50 (A)
2002- NC State def. Northwestern, 74-49 (H)
2003 - Michigan def. NC State, 68-61(A)
2004 - No. 13 NC State def. Purdue, 60-53 (H)
2005 - No. 14 Iowa def. No. 24 NC State, 45-42 (A)
2006 - NC State def. Michigan, 74-67 (H)
2007 - No. 10 Michigan State def. No. 24 NC State, 81-58 (A)
2008 - Did Not Participate
2009 - Northwestern def. NC State, 65-53 (H)
2010 - Wisconsin def. NC State, 87-48 (A)
MORE ON THE PACK IN THE CHALLENGE:
• NC State has twice played Michigan, Northwestern and Purdue in the Challenge.
• The Pack is 1-2 in Challenge games against ranked opposition.
• Largest margin of victory: 25 (2002- NC State def. Northwestern, 74-49)
• Largest margin of defeat: 39 (2010 - Wisconsin def. NC State, 87-48)
NC STATE-INDIANA, THE SERIES: This will be the third meeting ever between the two programs and the first since 1968. The Hoosiers have won the previous two contests with the Wolfpack. Indiana won the first game 101-97 at Reynolds Coliseum on Dec. 17, 1967. It followed that with a 77-62 home win on Dec. 14, 1968.
LAST TIME OUT: Led by sophomore guard Lorenzo Brown’s career-high 21 points, the Wolfpack posted an 82-67 victory over Elon in the first of three regular season games at Reynolds Coliseum. Brown was 9-of-16 from the floor and 3-of-6 from the line on the night, while sophomore forward C.J. Leslie came off the bench to shoot 60 percent (6-of-10) from the floor to post 13 points and pull down eight boards.
Junior forward Scott Wood, also in a reserve role, added 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting from three-point range, while senior guard C.J. Williams registered 10.
NC State is now 11-0 in regular-season games played at Reynolds since moving to the RBC Center beginning with the 1999-2000 season.
NC STATE TIES TO INDIANA: NC State and Indiana have met only twice on the hardwoods – with the Hoosiers winning in both 1967-68 and 1968-69 in a brief home-and-home series – but the states of North Carolina and Indiana are inextricably tied to the roots of college basketball. In the earliest days of the sport, North Carolina imported much of its coaching and playing talent from the Hoosier State, where high school basketball first took root soon after it was invented by James Naismith in 1891 in Springfield, Mass.
Dr. Richard “Red” Crozier of Evansville, Ind., introduced college basketball to the state of North Carolina in 1905, soon after he was hired to be Wake Forest’s baseball coach and gymnasium manager. He not only coached in the state’s first college basketball game, against Trinity College, he later coached against NC State in its first two games, in 1911. He also served two stints as NC State’s head coach, during and just after World War I, compiling a 24-35 record in three seasons. He later served as the team’s trainer and doctor under new head coach Gus Tebell.
Tebell won Southern Conference football and basketball championships before moving on to Virginia, eventually becoming athletics director and president of the Southern Conference. In 1946, he invited Indiana legend Chuck Taylor to speak during the Southern Conference basketball tournament in Raleigh, and it was at that time that Taylor recommended to NC State athletics officials that the school hire Everett Case to be its next basketball coach. Though he had never coached college basketball, Case was a legend in Indiana, where he was the first coach to win four Indiana High School Championships while coaching at Frankfort, Ind. He is the only coach in the history of the Indiana tournament to accept the championship trophy from Naismith, the game’s inventor.
Case was also a successful coach while serving in the Navy in World War II.
Case, who turned down a job at Purdue to bring big-time college basketball to North Carolina, opened up a pipeline of Indiana high school stars to Raleigh to play at NC State. In fact, his first team was called the “Hoosier Hotshots,” because of the nucleus of six players with Indiana roots that Case either coached or coached against on military teams: Dick Dickey of Alexandria, Pete Negley of Lawrence, Jack McComas of Shelbyville, Charlie Stine of Frankfort, Jack Snow of Anderson and Norman Sloan from Indianapolis.
In subsequent years, Case recruited all-star players like Vic Bubas of Gary, Sammy Ranzino of Frankfort, Vic Molodet and Pete Auksel of East Chicago and others to play for the Wolfpack, which he led to 10 conference titles in his 16 years as head coach. He was posthumously inducted into the into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982.
Sloan, after successful coaching stints at The Citadel, Presbyterian and Florida, returned to NC State as head coach. He scheduled the only home-and-home series with the Hoosiers, losing both in Raleigh at Reynolds Coliseum and in Bloomington, in back-to-back seasons.
Dickey – Sloan’s former teammate, roommate and fellow Hotshot – suggested Sloan recruit an undersized point guard named Monte Towe from Marion, Ind., to play for the Wolfpack in the early 1970s. For three varsity seasons, Towe fed the ball to David Thompson, Tommy Burleson, Mo Rivers, Phil Spence, Tim Stoddard (also of East Chicago, Ind.) and others as State had its biggest basketball success, going 57-1 from 1972-74, winning two ACC titles and the 1974 NCAA Championship.
Towe served two stints as an assistant coach with the Wolfpack. Three years ago, Towe recruited current Wolfpack shooting guard Scott Wood to Raleigh. Wood continues to the Indiana influence on NC State basketball that began from the first moments college basketball was played in the state.
A total of 14 of the Wolfpack 17 all-time conference titles came from coaches with Indiana roots. And seven former NC State men’s players and coaches are in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame: Auksel, Bubas, Case, Dickey, Towe, Sloan and Stoddard. One former NC State women’s basketball player, Claudia Kreicker Dozier, is also inducted.
