Originally posted on 03/31/2013:

You couldn't write a better story than the one NC State lived in 1983. Brink of elimination several times, beat Sampson twice, Olajuwon/Drexler once. This miracle was bigger than the 1980 gold medal USA hockey team to me. I didn't appreciate it then because I was 14 years old, raised in Houston, and a BIG Cougars fan. After the Wolfpack took that game, I yelled and screamed all through the trailer we were living in, and punched a big gap into the hallway wall. My dad grounded me for a week.