#2 North Carolina St vs #1 Louisville - 3/07/21

[RedStickHusky]

Slobberknocker

 

[LETTERL]

Final: NC State wins back-to-back ACC titles for the first time ever. 58-56.

What a great game!

 

[bluedevil]

Evans player of the year..not so fast..

 

[SECbbfan24]

Great game by both teams. I feel like the NCAAT will be a lot of this....

 

[LETTERL]

I feel sort of bad for Dana Evans. She looked devastated and inconsolable.

 

[bluedevil]

Final: NC State wins back-to-back ACC titles for the first time ever. 58-56.

What a great game!

Pretty basketball it wasn't.

 

[LETTERL]

Pretty basketball it wasn't.

No...but it was INTENSE. My heart was about to beat out of my chest.

I just knew when Evans released that last THREE that it would swish through the hoop.

 

[uconnever]

Cuna needs is a good solid center, definitely one of the best in the country. Dislike Louisville and was rooting against them as I always do, but I felt bad and it broke my heart to see Evans fall to the floor in tears. She is usually very stoic win or lose.

 

[Vowelguy]

Fun game

 

[LETTERL]

Cuna needs is a good solid center, definitely one of the best in the country. Dislike Louisville and was rooting against them as I always do, but I felt bad and it broke my heart to see Evans fall to the floor in tears. She is usually very stoic win or lose.

Me too. There I was happy and elated...and she was devastated. I wanted to give her a hug.

 

[Heytherego]

What a game! Hailey Van Lith almost had that back door game winner

 

[Shades]

 

[nwhoopfan]

Evans hero ball didn't work. She had some nice drives and scores in Q4 but way too many missed shots overall.

3 point shooting stunk for both teams--NC St. 4-18 Louisville 4-16

 

[nwhoopfan]

Is it fair to say in a sweeping generalization that defenses have been much better than offenses when you look at the '20-'21 season? Sure seems like it to me. This was another low scoring, not real well executed grinder, seems par for the course. They say defense wins championships, but maybe this year whoever can consistently knock down some shots is gonna walk way with the hardware.

 

[eebmg]

What a game! Hailey Van Lith almost had that back door game winner

If Paige had delivered the pass, it would have ended differently.

 

[nickp91]

Raina Perez has said all season that she wanted to come to NC State to play in these kinds of big games Today she hit the biggest shot of the Wolfpack's season

 

[LETTERL]

Raina Perez has said all season that she wanted to come to NC State to play in these kinds of big games Today she hit the biggest shot of the Wolfpack's season

And according to her, a year ago at this time, she was not aware of NC State.

 

[Shades]

 

[Plebe]

Is it fair to say in a sweeping generalization that defenses have been much better than offenses when you look at the '20-'21 season? Sure seems like it to me. This was another low scoring, not real well executed grinder, seems par for the course. They say defense wins championships, but maybe this year whoever can consistently knock down some shots is gonna walk way with the hardware.

I tend to agree, and god help you (on the Boneyard at least) if you're the exception of a better offensive than defensive team, like Maryland or Iowa or DePaul

 

[Plebe]

Final: NC State wins back-to-back ACC titles for the first time ever. 58-56.

What a great game!

Congratulations to NC State; yet another milestone in what has become a Wolfpack WBB golden age. They only seem to get better each year. Is this the first time they've won both the regular season and conference titles?

I've given the ACC plenty of well-deserved grief this season for being disproportionately mediocre, but I have only the utmost respect for Wes Moore and what he's built, as well as for how the fans have responded. Far and away the best program currently in the historically WBB-rich state of North Carolina, and clearly as well the class of the ACC.

If I had a vote on the committee, I'd sure as heck have NC State as (at least) my last #1 seed, ahead of South Carolina regardless of whether SC wins their game today. Today's win gives NC State 3 wins now that are far better than any of SC's wins.

 

[LETTERL]

Congratulations to NC State; yet another milestone in what has become a Wolfpack WBB golden age. They only seem to get better each year. Is this the first time they've won both the regular season and conference titles?

I've given the ACC plenty of well-deserved grief this season for being disproportionately mediocre, but I have only the utmost respect for Wes Moore and what he's built, as well as for how the fans have responded. Far and away the best program currently in the historically WBB-rich state of North Carolina, and clearly as well the class of the ACC.

If I had a vote on the committee, I'd sure as heck have NC State as (at least) my last #1 seed, ahead of South Carolina regardless of whether SC wins their game today. Today's win gives NC State 3 wins now that are far better than any of SC's wins.

Louisville was the regular season winner, because they played two more games than NC State.

 

[Plebe]

Louisville was the regular season winner, because they played two more games than NC State.

Ugh.

 

[Shades]

 

[LETTERL]

Ugh.

NC State hasn't won the ACC regular season crown since 1990.

 

[bbsamjj]

Despite the shooting slumps at various times, I thought both teams competed hard, and it was for the most part a clean, intense, exciting game to watch--and both teams were executing down the stretch in the 4th quarter. Evans had an ACC tournament to forget, but there's always the NCAAs. It wasn't always pretty, but this is also the 3rd game in 3 days for both teams, so you get what you get.