The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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MARCH 2019 ■ 79 ■ PACK PAST ter would be declared ineligible and any NC State wins would be invalidated. The week before the ACC Tournament, St. John's Italian-born center Marco Baldi had been declared ineligible, as had LSU's Marco Vargas of the Dominican Republic. The NCAA was determined to make sure international players who might have been paid while playing for club teams weren't undermining the concept of amateur athletics. "If we had had your dad in the 1986 tournament," former NC State standout Er- nie Myers — and her dad's teammate that season — told Fasoula during Vanderbilt's pregame shoot-around, "we would have gone to the Final Four." Late in its Elite Eight game against sec- ond-ranked Kansas, played less than 40 minutes away from the Jayhawks' campus at Kansas City's Kemper Arena, State was leading by double-digit points. That's when the partisan crowd began chanting "Rock … Chalk … Jayhawk." The sound swelled every time Danny Manning and Greg Dreiling scored another basket. When Myers missed a free throw on a three-point play and Nate McMillan was called for a questionable charging foul, the Jayhawks took control of the game and advanced to the Final Four with a 75-67 victory. Fasoulas was selected in the second round of the 1986 NBA Draft by Portland, one round before the Trail Blazers took Croatian superstar Drazen Petrovic. 2400 Reliance Ave, Apex, NC • 919.362.5959 Les Merritt CPA-CFP NCSU Graduate Certified Public Accountant Certified Financial Planner Your CPA! les@lesmerrittcpa-cfp.com (919) 269-8553 1014 N. Arendell Avenue Zebulon, NC 27597 You worked your way through NCSU, one of America's great universities. Why then, would you take your professional or personal taxes to someone who graduated from Taxmart U? Fasoulas was a fan favorite for a Wolfpack squad that won 21 games and advanced all the way to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tourna‑ ment in 1985‑86. PHOTO COURTESY NC STATE MEDIA RELATIONS