Upset

Today the whole Clark clan went to Baltimore for Kellie's first big cheer competition of the year. The event was held at the Baltimore Convention Center. For more details, please see the later post above.

Yesterday, Chuck called me to tell me that he and Dad had tickets to the UNC/NCSU game at the plush RBC Center in Raleigh. Today, as I was filling up for the trip to Baltimore, Dad called me with the same news. At the time, they were on the road to Raleigh.

At 5:00PM tonight, a group of us left the arena to look for a place to have dinner. As luck would have it, the restaurant right across the street was a sports bar. When we arrived, the game was on TV. I was able to quickly determine that the Wolfpack was up by 9 points with 10 minutes left in the game. I watched the the remainder of the game and witnessed State's first victory across the Tarheels in nearly 4 years.

The crowd stormed the court and the Sendek curse was broken. NCSU's new coach, Sidney Lowe took his first big step in returning the Wolfpack to glory. What Herb could not seem to do, Sidney did immediately, that being handing our cross-state rivals a loss. Sidney, welcome back to the ACC.

UNC was ranked #3 in the nation prior to the game, although that doesn't mean much in interconference games these days. We will find out if this was a fluke when the teams meet again later in the month on UNC's campus.

Final Score:

Carolina Tarheels at NC State Wolfpack
79		83