NC State 66, William & Mary 47

Box Score

NC State

Four Factors
eFG%	49.1
Turnover Rate	17.1
Off Reb Rate	42.4
FTM/FGA	24.1

W&M

Four Factors
eFG%	33.6
Turnover Rate	17.1
Off Reb Rate	33.3
FTM/FGA	18.2

          Pts   Poss    Off_Eff   Def_Eff
W&M       47    58.3      80.6     113.1
NCSU      66    58.3     113.1      80.6

-- The terrible ACC Select announcers were calling him Bubba Gump (uhm...awkward?), but I prefer Super Awesome Incredible Man.

              ORtg    %Poss    %Shots    eFG%     PPWS      TO%
Hickson      156.2     32.3     29.6    100.0     1.85     14.1
Fells        117.4     17.7     19.8     56.3     1.12     12.9
Grant         73.4     20.4     22.4     20.0     0.40     20.4
Degand        74.3     12.1     13.2     20.0     0.40     20.2
Costner      101.7     26.8     26.1     37.5     0.94     22.6
Goznalez      63.2      8.1      6.2      0.0     0.51      0.0
Ferguson     122.7     12.7     22.2     50.0     1.00      0.0
McCauley     200.0      3.1      5.3    100.0     2.00      0.0

My goodness.

-- Damn you to hell, zone defense. Over 40% of the Pack's attempts were threes, and not many of them went in. Costner attempted nine by himself--I never want to see that again.

-- In any given game, my reactions to Gavin's touches progress something like this: No-yes-no-no-nice drive [golf clap]-no-maybe?-what the hell?-no-yes-no-AAAAH!-meh-whew-yes-no-no-no.

-- Ben McCauley has been lost in the shuffle of forwards and totally uninvolved in the three games (including the exhibitions) we've played thus far. This saddens me.

-- W&M grabbed 33% of their misses, which is right at their 2007 average. Costner was huge on the defensive glass (30.8 DR%), but everyone else sucked.

-- NC State hit 63.3% of its twos; Hickson was 100% from inside the arc, while the rest of the team shot 38.8%. The latter number is nothing to worry about.

[Photo: Associated Press]