The Student Wolfpack Club made a short trip to Chapel Hill Sunday for the women’s basketball game against UNC-Chapel Hill as part of a Facebook-inspired initiative to fill the Dean Smith Center with Wolfpack red.

The Dean Dome was still largely a sickly blue, but the campaign to dominate the Dome wasn’t a total failure, as the Tar Heels student fan club, Carolina Fever, took notice of the red menace that infringed on Carolina’s home court advantage.

Tyler Singleton, a junior in psychology at UNC-Chapel Hill and an active member of Carolina Fever, spoke candidly about the two clubs, lamenting that Fever had been bested in the women’s team’s ACC home opener.

“I’m really impressed with the turnout the Wolfpack Club brought today,” Singleton said. “I really wish we had more people to back it up. They [were] louder than us and I’ve gotten some comments about it, but it’s [the Fever’s] own fault for not being here.”

Singleton added that since classes hadn’t begun yet, it was difficult to get many fans to games, especially since Fever doesn’t hold official events when students aren’t on campus.

“We don’t do official events unless school is in session,” Singleton said. “Since about 75 percent of our people in Fever are freshmen and they can’t move into their dorms until later today none of them could be here.”

Fellow cheerleaders Joe Trotto and Chris Vereen said they felt that the reasons Heels fans weren’t at the game were more basal.

“I feel like they’re intimidated,” Vereen said.

“They just know their place and know not to step up and compete, Trotto added. “Because red means go and blue means poo.”

Coach Stephanie Glance appreciated the Wolfpack fans that made the trip as well.

“It was great to see so much red,” Glance said. “The N.C. State fans were well represented, and it definitley gives us a boost.”

And while the boost helped the Pack to force overtime with the number two team in the nation, State was unable to pull out the victory, something a little more crowd support could have changed, according to Michel Simon, a junior in biochemistry.

“I’m pretty disappointed [in the State fan turnout,]” Simon said, adding he was convinced there should have been more support for the team in the absence of long-time coach Kay Yow. “The goal for this game was to show her that even with her gone we’re here to support what she’s made and what she’s done with our basketball team.”

Fifteen members of State’s cheerleading squad joined the Student Wolfpack Club in the stands who noticed that Carolina’s fever was low-grade.

“It’s pretty awesome that there are so many more student fans from N.C. State than from Carolina,”  Callie Kirsch, a freshman in elementary education, said. “We’re here to support Kay.”

While the Fever may have subsided during the Heel’s home contest, Singleton hoped that when the Heels visit Reynolds later this season, Carolina fans will be out in full force.

“We always take a big group over to Reynolds, usually two buses,” he sad. “Maybe we can do better next time when we bring it to Reynolds.”