Technician 1‘ 98 7-88 Basket, WOLFPACK BASKETBALL & THE WOLFPACK CLUB: A WINNING COMBINATION “The Wolfpack Club is a vital part of the continuing success of Wolfpack athletics. For over fifly years the Wolfpack Club has provided scholarship aid to our student-athletes and played a leadership role in capital improvements such as Carter-Finley Stadium, Case Athletics Center and the Weisiger—Brown General Athletics Facility, to name a few. Upon graduation we hope you will consider joining the Wolfpack Club and continue to be a part of the Wolfpack team, even after your student days. Join the Wolfpack Club!” — Athletics Director Jim Valvano “Let me personally invite you to join the Wolfpack Club. We offer a free one year's membership to all graduating seniors. Just came by our office at the Wolfpack Center or fill out the application below to sign up. We would like to have you as a member.” —' Wolfpack Club Director Charlie Bryant The Wolfpack Club PO. Box 37IOO Raleigh, NC. 27627 (919) 737-2112 PRIDE PRESTIGE TRADITION LOYALTY DEDICATION This Is What Being a Wolfpacker Is All About! WOLFPACK CLUR MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION PO. BOX 37IOO RALEIGH, NC. 27627 Name: Permanent Mailing Address: . Cin: SIGTe: Zip; County: Home Phone: Graduation Date: Fall ‘87 Spring ‘88 Summer ‘88 Thanks... Contents The cover photo, along with a number of other photos in this edition, was taken by Technician photo editor Marc Wolfpack Memories 4 Kawanishi. Kawanishi, executive photo editor Scott Rivenbark and the entire photo staff were extremely helpful in putting How can anyone who doesn't remember Bill Lake this together. call himself a real Wolfpack fan? The Agromeck donated the help of photo editor Woody Taylor and editor Mark lnman. Taylor let us have some of his photos and Inman designed the pagelines and a whole lot of Wolfpack Trivia Qurz6 other stuff. Technician advertising manager Lib Seigh and her staff did Who, what, when, where and how the Wolfpack did it in the past. an excellent job putting all this together. Thanks to Seigh, Cyndi Horkin, Cheryl Zerof, David Carr, Paula Boulware, Jeff Rudd and Alan Kane, we might even make some money out of I Red and Red Game......................7 this. Production manager Tonya Peeples and senior editor Bob Reed both put in countless hours fixing my mistakes, and Wolfpack meets Soviet National Team and winds up layout artists Lisa Coston and Crickette Purdie (known to her on the short end ofa 99-90 score. parents and the payroll people as Rene) cheerfully struggled to figure out what all those notes we scribbled in the middle ol 2 the night meant. Technician all-ACC teams .............8 And all the other people who contributed their time to this Valvano misses all-conference honors by a nose. project, THANKS. Thanks for putting up with all of my demands and for not bashing ny head in with a baseball bat. ‘ “Thanks, Bud“ to john Austin for late night treats and Missing Inaction 10 l snacks (and to Krispy Kreme for being open). N.(I. State's sports information director Mark Boekelman. Both the men's and the women's basketball teams women's basketball information director (larter (ibeeves and have suffered major personnel losses since the last all the rest of the sports information staff were a great help. season. The pictures of liverette (Ease and liill Lake came to Us . courtesy ofthe sports information office. J (You‘re doing a good job. Mark. Pay attention. I probably In Need of Assistance.................12 won't ever say that again.) Thanks to basketball coach/athletics director Jim Valvano There's no telling what would happen to State's and coach Kay Yoyv. who put up with our photograhers at basketball programs without these assistant coaches. practice and gave us everything we asked for. 1d especially like to thank the ’l‘eehnician sports staff. even those who‘s names don‘t appear in this edition. for keeping Hoops”unununuunnnunnnuuun14 the rest of my job from falling apart when l was a walking basketball index. Without their help either the special or the This season’s newest styles in women’s and men’s basketball. regular paper \\'( )uld have fallen apart. .-\nd managing editor Michael llughes. who stayed up with me all night and most of another night. desertes the best ACC Champions 18 thanks of all. \V'e'll have to go out drinking sometime, Mike when you're old enough. \leamvhile. we‘ll just have to settle for sipping whiskey from a dirty cup (or just out of the bottle.) And last but not least. I‘d like to thank (lod and Kentucky 1987 marked the first time in ACC history that the. for combining efforts to create some excellent bourbon. same school won both the men's and women’s —Katrina Waugh Atlantic Coast Conference basketball Sports liditor championships. The Numbers Game 21 A few token pages for all those statistics buffs. Everything anyone needs to know for the upcoming season. Ifit's not here, no one needs to know it. Growing up on Tobacco Road .. ....30 A North Carolina native describes basketball's hold on ACC Country. Fresh bodies 33 Eight freshmen have joined the ranks of the Wolfpack basketball teams—four each for the men's and women's squads. Z O ‘4’ .4 I11 Bill Lake: an answer to Bill Walton? Last spring. State‘s athletic ball. Although a year apart in coats. Actually. old Norm Leftwich. Nelson lsley. A1 department em )tied its age. Walton and Lake were pretty conservatively in Heartley equipment rooms of old game several millennia apart in terms dressed and via Bradle reiseys and warmup jackets of talent. his early years with NC. State. University and the Keg — Rick from several sports and sold Lake's playing days. if that's Bruce perha s figuring that a 7-10 Anheuser. Quite a group. them in front of the Student what you want to call them. recorchcombined with repu nant Williford. Sloan's first recruit Supply Store (now known as the weren't that long ago. and I taste in clothing might o fend and an all-ACC selection in '09 NCSll Bookstore). thought back to when 1 first Winkworth the Wolfiack faithful and cost and '70. stood 6-6 and layed Among the items sold were started going to State games him his job center until Coder came afon in countless old basketball jerse 5. back in the mid-sixties. If this Sloan didn't start melting 1970. Leftwich had a milfion dating all the way back to the kid didn't remember Bill Lake. camera lenses with those bright dollars worth of basketball tal- fifties At seven bucks a pop — what would he make of names couple of years and won 38 of madras jackets until he'd ent. but his brain far too often a bargain for sure these old like Billy Mavredes and Tommy 51 games and the 1905 ACC pocketed an ACC title and had indulged in deficit spending. He rerseyr, were guaranteed to Mattocks and Billy Moffitt and title. After David Thompson stashed safely dropped off the team and out of trigger memories long since Pete stunning nationally away on the freshman team. school in 1971 and apparently Auksel and Larry Worsley? ranked Duke in the tournament Now hasn't been heard from since, given up for dead Those were the names I finals. Maravich and the Wolf that's job security. Anheuser Or so l thought. remember from the 1904 and '65 pack players Worsley. Mat- By the time 1 was in high made a name for While perusing the stacks of Wolfpack teams. the last teams tocks. Moffitt. Pete Coker. Larry school Raleigh Broughton. himself one night by single» Jerseys. a kid nearby picked it a a coached by the great Everett Lakins. Hal Blondeau and Ray class of '70 if you must know — handedly ridding the Keg of a reisey. opened his mouth an in Case. Thanks to the point- Hodgdon among others aid Sloan had added Vann Williford. platoon of ‘unruly Marines. a \‘Olt e ravaged by puberty said. shaving scandal a few years tribute to Case. who forgecf‘his Paul Coder. loe Dunning. Ed See THE, page 5 Lake Who the hell is Lake? 1 earlier. Case‘s last years at State reputation as a tournament thought I knew State basketball weren't memorable ones. which coach, pit-try Well. but 1 never heard of is too bad One of the treatest A year later. Maravrch left and tlirsgm’ roaches ever. Case shou d have Norm Sloan's sport coat collc'c'r 10% DISCOUNT ON How could anyone who gone out with a better ending. tion took over as head coach tl.lllll\ to know a thing abotrt Case died in 1000 after a Sloan's first team was a star ALL PARTS & ACCESSORIES State basketball not remember 17-year record of 3777134. In- studded cast that included Dick WITH STUDENT I.D. Irlll Lake States answer to Bill cluded in that were six Southern Braucher. Nick 'l‘rifunovic‘h. Paul Walton Conference championshi s and Hudson. Sam Gealy. Joe Serdrch. Ahh. Bill Lake a seven-foot four Atlantic Coast Con ‘rence Billy Kretzer. Bob Lewis and the white grant with shocking red titles. Nine of those 10 confer- ever-lasting Mavredes. a group hair. much like Bill Walton. ence championships came in a that dropped 19 of 20 games. Unlike Walton. and most unfor- loryear span from 1947-50. perhaps not used to the glare tunately for the Wolfpack.