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I couldn’t be more pleased with what Sidney Lowe is doing with this years edition of Wolfpack basketball. Lowe got the Pack to 11-6, and notched his first career ACC victory in leading the Pack to an 88-74 win over Wake Forest.

Mull this over for a second….The Pack lost Cedrick Simmons to an early exit to the NBA, Andrew Brackman to baseball, Ilian Evtimov, Tony Bethel, and Cameron Bennerman to graduation, and have basically been without Engin Atsur due to injury. To make matters worse, they lost 2 incoming recruits in Dan Werner and Larry Davis. That didn’t leave Lowe with much. Atsur, mentioned early, was the lone returning senior, and was depended on to run the point. Things haven’t worked out that way as Atsur has missed several games due to injury, thrusting most of the ball handling duties on junior small forward Gavin Grant. Grant was the only other returning player that picked up any minutes that one would call “significant”…..Courtney Fells, a sophomore, was highly regarded but saw little action last year. Starting Center Ben McCauley, played sparingly as well last year while backing up Cedrick Simmons. Now he’s a poor mans version of Tyler Hansborough. Brandon Costner missed nearly all of last year to injury, so he retained his freshman status. Freshman Dennis Horner and former walk on Bryan Nieman picked up what playing time was left, and transfer Trevor Ferguson came on after the first semester to help with ball handling duties. 1 Junior, 2 sophomores, 2 freshmen, and a walk-on haved logged the majority of minutes……I’m DAMN PROUD OF THIS TEAM.

Anyway, check out Courtney Fells and Brandon Costner showing off vs. Wake Forest: