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Thompson, ~' Shavlik, Ranzino, Pucillo, Bubas, McKinney, and Case —all have had their finest hours on this floor, and all have left their message for those who followed. "g”“i- But what about the students? 1N"w!T l 7 .‘FZOI‘CNV GEE?) ,, Year after year the student body of the school, whether it was State College of Agriculture and Engi- neering, or NCS of UNC at Raleigh, or eyen N. C. State University, has derived very little direct benefit from the tournament. Ticket prices generally limit the gate to non-students, especially in recent years. Fewer and fewer State students have been able to attend in spite of the fact their team was playing on their home court. Recently even the cheerleading squads have'had to resort to subterfuge such as sell- ing popcorn to gain admittance. The only two worthwhile aspects of the ACC tour- ney being played on the Coliseum floor are the rev- enue brought into the always short athletic funds, and the implied rather than actual advantage to State warns of being at home for the crucial games. An- other and somewhat debatable aspect is the prestige for the University of having the publicity connected with the tournament. p People from all over the two Carolinas and Virginia have made the pilgrimage to the ACC Tournament an annual event, second only to Christmas in its cer- tainty. By attending and supporting the event, these people have spread the fame of N. C. State’s basket- The Gray Fox - A °Case’"HistOry ball facilities across the land. But what about the library? Basketball has been played at State for a long time, but The immortal Dixie Classic was first played in Raleigh dur- the nation and voted Shavlik All-American for the second the Pack's first winning season was relatively recent, in 1917. ing the 1949 season. RhodevIsland State, Georgia Tech, and time. A lot of basketballs have gone through a lot of nets since Penn State fell victim to the Pack. In the 12 years of the The basketball facility at State is probably second then and the Wolfpack has had winning teams in 36 of the 48 Dixie Classic, State won its own tournament seven times. In his first ten years the Old Gray Fox guided his teams to none in the nation, but the library is 33rd in the years since that first team started a tradition of good basket- to a 247-60 record. Basketball had its national headquarters South. It contains a grand total of 332,000 volumes, ball in Raleigh. ‘ ‘- The 1949-50 team won first place in the Southern Confer- in Raleigh. ' many ence and went to the NCAA Tournament where it placed third. of which should be relegated to the rare book The modern basketball era began at State in the 1946-47 In the United Press International poll the Wolfpack was In 1956-57 the Pack’s record was only 15-11. State lost two room to preserve their contents for future historians season when Everett Case, “The Old Gray Fox,” came to ranked fifth nationally, won thirty, and lost only seven. games to Wake Forest that knocked it out of the Dixie Classic and researchers. West Raleigh to coach a team that had lost ten of 17 games In 1951, the Wolfpack won more games than any other year and ACC tournaments. North Carolina won the national the year before. in history. As usual, it won the Dixie Classic and the South- championship by beating Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain in Trouble ern Conference Tournament. It went to both the NIT and the three overtimes. State was no longer the king of the ACC, is, we don’t have a rare book room. Nor Nothing daunted, Case, a basketball wizard, started ofi' by NCAA finals. It was ranked seventh by the AP and eighth but a good thing had happened to basketball in North Caro- do we have new books to replace the old ones if they whacking the Cherry Point Marines 63-33. A glorious new by UPI. Sammy 'Ranzino, “Wham Bam Marrying Sam,” to lina..For ten years everyone had tried to catch the blazing be retired from active circulation. stage began in "the cage history of what was then called readers of the Technician, led the powerful Pack to its fifth team from the capital, and finally they had. In the process, North‘ Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineer— championship. they had drastically upgraded their basketball programs. As Duke University, the school that sends the ing. The name has since been changed, but the basketball is a result State's days of uncontested glory in the SC and ACC over- still the exciting brand introduced by Case. The following year, Bob Speight became State's third con- were gone and have not returned. In its place remained the whelmingly favored team into the tournament, has a secutive All-America, leading to the by now traditional domi- strongest, most exciting, best balanced conference in the library containing more than 1,693,000 volumes, rank- In 1946 State was in the cumbersome Southern Conference. nations of the Dixie Classic and SC tournaments. The team country. ing third in the South in both number of books and After an 11-2 season record in the SC, the tournament was went on to take third place in the NCAA Eastern Regionals. , annual expenditures for the facility. won by State. It was only the second title State had possessed Since 1957 no team has been able- to dominate the confer- and the first’since 1929. It was not the last. State won five In 1952-53, State had no All-Americans, no national-rank- ence for more than one year. more titles in the last ing, and lost to Wake Forest by one point in the final game Somewhere, N. C. State seems to have placed em- six years of its membership in the SC. of the Conference Tournament. A comparatively poor year, The next year NCS won two-thirds of its games, lost in the After winning the conference crown, the Raleigh cagers except that Case’s boys won 26 games and the Dixie Classic. Dixie Classic and ACC semi-finals and settled down to the phasis on the wrong phase of education. Admittedly, went to the National Invitational Tournament at Madison In 1953-54, due to Everett Case and State's phenomenal role it has played ever since; that of perennial contender, it is nice to have winning teams in the major sports, Square Garden. In their first post-season tournament State often a bridesmaid, and twice the bride of the ACC. and the Coliseum serves several vital functions for whopped St. John’s and West Virginia, but lost to Kentucky basketball resurgence, the Atlantic Coast Conference was for a third place founded from the best teams in the old Southern Conference. State was not the golden“ team it had been in the past, but the benefit of the student body, but the library should finish. The NIT was to hear from the Red For the first time, State lost in the Dixie Classic, but over- it was a more interesting team since the outcome of every not suifer’year after year of almost total neglect and and White again. time revenge on Wake Forest in the ACC Tournament and game was not a foregone massacre. apathy while the sports thrive. The 1947 seasr‘ tarted with a change in the name of the third place in the NCAA Eastern Regionals boosted State to a 28-7 record. The Wolfpack won the conference championship in 1959, ‘team. Formerly \. fpack and Red Terrors were interchange- ' and-rrbeat/zMiehigan-r-Statedn-thefinalsof the Dixie.-Classic., . ,, N. C. State has only ‘recently become a University, ably used for NCS athletes. But as a result‘ofgsearch byes...- - Itwasrthesame oldthing in 1954-55. State downed Minne- Pack cagers have done well since, but not that well. Lou Statevhistoryprofessofthé precedence of thewname Wolfpack sota to win the Dixie Classic and stomped Duke to remain in name, and'i’s’still striving to become one in fact. If was established. It has been this name that has become the ACC champion.