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RALEIGH, N.C. -- Theres a long list of things that North Carolina State coach Mark Gottfried figures his young team will improve on as the season wears on.It includes how to play with a lead and put a team away.Sophomore Torin Dorn had 22 points and 11 rebounds to help N.C. State beat Boston University 77-73 on Saturday, though the Wolfpack blew a 13-point first-half lead then squandered much of a 16-point lead in the final 9 minutes to end up with a two-possession margin.I feel like once we get somebody down, Dorn said, we have to get them out of here.Terry Henderson added 23 points for the Wolfpack (6-2), who fell behind briefly early in the second half before going on a 17-3 run to go back ahead by double figures.But the Wolfpack had its troubles, from some repeated defensive mistakes to sputtering at times against a zone defense and missing a lot of second-half free throws that could have protected the big lead.Henderson, a senior, said he sensed the team playing lackadaisical sometimes as a possible explanation for the trouble holding the lead.Theyre going to learn and the best way theyre going to learn is to get them right in the fire, just like theyre doing right now, Gottfried said. Id love to blow every team out by 25 points. That would be wonderful. Weve got a young team thats going to get better and theyre going to get better every day. Were going to figure it out.Eric Fanning scored 16 points to lead BU (4-4), who took a 44-42 lead on Kyle Foremans drive with 16:25 left. But freshman Markell Johnson answered with a 3-pointer, then the Wolfpack scored on six straight possessions to go back up by double figures.I thought just little things, in terms of attention to detail, we werent sharp on, BU coach Joe Jones said. Youre going to have to be sharper than that to beat this type of team.BIG PICTUREBoston U: The Terriers keep sticking with their balanced-offense formula that could help them withstand some tough shooting days once they reach Patriot League play. While Fanning led the way, Tyler Scanlon (15 points), Justin Alston (12) and Cheddi Mosely (12) all hit double figures, too.I was pleased we didnt fold, Jones said of his teams response to falling behind by 16.N.C. State: Defense remains a major question for a young team thats still taking shape. Four days after allowing Illinois to shoot 68 percent after halftime, N.C. State allowed BU to shoot 56 percent in the second half -- including one possession that saw Scanlon pump-fake the Wolfpacks Abdul-Malik Abu off the floor at the 3-point arc and dribble all the way to the rim for an uncontested layup.We got better in my opinion from last game, Gottfried said.TIP-INSBoston U: Jones, in his sixth year, fell to 2-1 against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents at BU, the last being a win at current Big Ten member Maryland in December 2013. ... The Terriers shot 7 of 28 (25 percent) from 3-point range. ... BU scored all 12 of its points off turnovers after halftime. ... BU made 12 of 23 free throws (52 percent) for the game. ... Kyle Foreman had nine assists.N.C. State: Freshman Ted Kapita made his first career start, posting six points and five rebounds before fouling out in 17 minutes. ... Dorn matched his career high for rebounds. ... Fellow rookie Dennis Smith Jr. had 15 points, including an alley-oop dunk off a feed from Johnson during the go-ahead run. ... The Wolfpack shot just 13 of 23 from the foul line (57 percent) after halftime.UP NEXTBoston U: The Terriers host Canisius on Wednesday night.N.C. State: The Wolfpack emerges from a weeklong exam break to face Tennessee State in the programs former campus home, the newly renovated Reynolds Coliseum on Dec. 10.---Follow Aaron Beard on Twitter at http://www.twiter.com/aaronbeardap---More AP college basketball at http://collegebasketball.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-Top25 Cheap Custom Soccer Jerseys China . Its the second straight game Bell has scored in extra time for Kelowna, which beat the Brandon Wheat Kings 6-5 on Friday, and he now has four game-winning goals on the season. Wholesale Custom Soccer Jerseys Online . 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He wanted to introduce himself to Knox and share details on how to become a tour member.Ten months later, Knox had reason to feel like an outcast.The 31-year-old Scot easily would have qualified for the Ryder Cup if he had been a European Tour member when he won the HSBC Champions last November. Even without those valuable points, Knox had all the credentials to be at Hazeltine.He has two PGA Tour victories this season. He was runner-up to Rory McIlroy at the Irish Open, to Branden Grace at Hilton Head and he lost in a playoff to Graeme McDowell in Mexico last fall. Knox was No. 4 when the FedEx Cup playoffs began, one spot ahead of Jordan Spieth. He is No. 20 in the world, the sixth-highest ranked European.That wasnt enough for European captain Darren Clarke to take him to the Ryder Cup.Clarke used his three picks Tuesday on the Ryder Cup experience of Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer, and the raw talent and recent form of Thomas Pieters. He said the phone call to Knox on Monday was probably one of the toughest of his career.But not the longest.We spoke for 20 seconds, Knox said. It was obvious by the way he said, `Hello that it was bad news. I didnt ask any questions. I wasnt going to ask who he picked or why not me. After the bad news, it was get off the phone as quick as possible.The disappointment in Knoxs voice was evident, even though part of him had a hunch this was coming. He felt as though he deserved to be on the team because of his performance. He also knows that a captain can choose whomever he wants, and I gave him that choice by not making the team outright.Think back to his victory at the Travelers Championship at the start of the month, when Knox holed a 12-foot par putt on the 18th hole and threw his cap across the green in celebration. Much of that emotion was that Knox felt certain he had done enough to lock up his spot in the Ryder Cup.Sadly, it wasnt, he said.He said Clarke and assistant captain Ian Poulter encouraged him to play the Wyndham Championship, his final chance to earn points. Knox declined. He would have needed a fourth-place finish, and to play the Wyndham would have meant playing seven times in nine weeks going to the Ryder Cup and I probably would have been burned out by the time I got to Hazeltine.ddddddddddddDid that hurt his chances? Probably.Pieters made his case by shooting 62 in Denmark while playing with Clarke -- it was no accident they were paired together -- and going on to win the tournament. Knox was impressed with what Pieters did in Denmark, and who Pieters is as a player. He had no complaints with the Belgian being picked.Even so, Knox was left to wonder how much he was seriously considered.Knox was born and raised in Scotland. He claims Florida as home from having lived there since college.He has never felt European.Clarke hinted at Knox being an outsider when he said Tuesday the Ryder Cup is about more than just playing. Its about the team room and the dynamics and everything thats involved in it, he said.Knox was hard-pressed to think of another European Ryder Cup player whose golfing roots are in America. He said he barely knows Clarke or the assistants. That includes Poulter, even though theyve had the same agent for years.Ultimately, I had that going against me, Knox said. I dont even know Paul Lawrie. Sam Torrance seems like a legend -- I dont know him. I played with Thomas Bjorn once, and we didnt speak one word. I dont have relationships with anyone. Im not really close to anyone on the team.If I would have been picked, it could have been 100 percent different.While saying he was disappointed, Knox also acknowledged it was time to move on. He changed the screen saver on his phone Tuesday to show the FedEx Cup, which he said he will look at for motivation. He would love to win one of these next three playoff events to show Clarke what he is missing.He respects the choices the captain has to make.Someone always gets left behind. Making an argument for one player is to devalue the merits of another.I might be a story today, Knox said. But in a couple of weeks time, nobody is going to remember -- except for a couple of Scottish people -- that I didnt get picked. ' ' '