Halftime at the Al
Remember those times when you're watching an ACC game, when the home crowd is going crazy, both teams are playing at a super high level and the broadcasters will invariably say "This is what ACC basketball is all about!"
This isn't one of those times.
There are a ton of empty seats at Alexander Memorial Coliseum, as well as a lot of fans doing an impersonation of empty seats. Strangely, State seems to be the team adversely affected by this morgue-like environment. Everyone on the Wolfpack - with the exception of Ilian Evtimov and Ben McCauley - looks very, very flat. State's committed 15 first-half turnovers. Yikes.
Tech looks good by comparison, if you can call 10 first half turnovers good.
Sendek seemed to spend much of the first half looking at the clock, wondering when he could get into the locker room and give his team a one-sided motivational talk to get things turned around in the second half.
We'll see if that works.