NCAA Tournament March Madness

#27 NC State

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Projected seed: 7

NC State’s placement is defensible because the team has shown it can notch resume-building results away from home and on neutral courts while also suffering a handful of damaging hiccups that keep them from climbing higher. Neutral-site wins over Mississippi and Boise State and true road victories at Florida State, Clemson and Boston College demonstrate the team can win in hostile environments, but neutral losses to Seton Hall and a shootout defeat to Texas along with a road trip gone wrong at Auburn and a narrow home loss to Kansas expose inconsistency in big moments. A puzzling loss to Georgia Tech further drags the profile, yet a string of upcoming chances including a trip to Pittsburgh, road tests at Louisville and Virginia and high-profile home opportunities against Duke, North Carolina, Miami and Stanford give the Wolfpack clear ways to reinforce the résumé for the committee.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3NC Central349W114-66
11/7UAB119W94-70
11/12UNC Greensboro295W110-64
11/17VCU49W85-79
11/24(N)Seton Hall47L85-74
11/25(N)Boise St69W81-70
11/26(N)Texas41L102-97
12/3@Auburn30L83-73
12/6UNC Asheville217W75-63
12/10Liberty94W85-45
12/13Kansas17L77-76
12/17TX Southern339W108-72
12/21(N)Mississippi68W76-62
12/31Wake Forest70W70-57
1/3Virginia12L76-61
1/6@Boston College148W79-71
1/10@Florida St105W113-69
1/17Georgia Tech127L78-74
1/20@Clemson28W80-76
1/24@Pittsburgh9871%
1/27Syracuse7181%
1/31@Wake Forest7061%
2/3@SMU3142%
2/7Virginia Tech5676%
2/9@Louisville1628%
2/14Miami FL3767%
2/17North Carolina3364%
2/24@Virginia1226%
2/28@Notre Dame8165%
3/2Duke332%
3/7Stanford7682%