NCAA Tournament March Madness

#27 NC State

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Projected seed: 8

NC State’s résumé reads like a middle-of-the-bracket team because it pairs impressive road and neutral wins with a handful of damaging setbacks that undercut consistency in the eyes of the committee. They have shown they can win away from home against SMU, Clemson and Pittsburgh and picked up meaningful neutral-site victories over Boise State and Mississippi while reinforcing the résumé with strong home efforts against VCU and Syracuse. Those positives are offset by high-visibility negatives, most notably the ugly loss at Louisville and road defeats at Auburn plus shaky neutral-site results against Seton Hall and Texas and a home setback to Virginia, so there’s reason for caution. The remaining slate gives clear ways to improve or slide, with home games against Miami and Stanford, the rivalry meeting with North Carolina and a brutal run that includes trips to Virginia and Notre Dame and a date with Duke, and how the Wolfpack handles those showdowns will ultimately justify whether they keep this middle seeding or move up or down.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3NC Central340W114-66
11/7UAB120W94-70
11/12UNC Greensboro304W110-64
11/17VCU46W85-79
11/24(N)Seton Hall48L85-74
11/25(N)Boise St56W81-70
11/26(N)Texas34L102-97
12/3@Auburn31L83-73
12/6UNC Asheville225W75-63
12/10Liberty89W85-45
12/13Kansas14L77-76
12/17TX Southern309W108-72
12/21(N)Mississippi71W76-62
12/31Wake Forest72W70-57
1/3Virginia20L76-61
1/6@Boston College150W79-71
1/10@Florida St77W113-69
1/17Georgia Tech161L78-74
1/20@Clemson33W80-76
1/24@Pittsburgh109W81-72
1/27Syracuse67W88-68
1/31@Wake Forest72W96-78
2/3@SMU37W84-83
2/7Virginia Tech64W82-73
2/9@Louisville15L118-77
2/14Miami FL4067%
2/17North Carolina2961%
2/24@Virginia2031%
2/28@Notre Dame8268%
3/2Duke328%
3/7Stanford7483%