NCAA Tournament March Madness

#26 NC State

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Projected seed: 10 (automatic qualifier)

NC State’s resume features a handful of eye-catching nonconference moments — neutral-site wins over Boise State and VCU and a narrow home showing against Kansas that reads like a competitively earned loss — but it is tempered by damaging neutral-site defeats to Seton Hall and Texas and a road setback at Auburn that raise questions about consistency away from Raleigh. Many of the wins have come against lesser opponents, so the profile hinges on a small number of quality results rather than a long string of résumé builders, and that mix explains why the team occupies a middle-ground posture today. The remainder of the Atlantic Coast schedule offers clear chances to change the conversation with road tests at Clemson, Virginia, Louisville and Notre Dame and with high-profile home dates against Duke and North Carolina plus a late-season tune-up against Stanford, so a couple of road victories or a marquee home win would move this résumé materially while continued losses away from home would solidify the more cautious view.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3NC Central352W114-66
11/7UAB107W94-70
11/12UNC Greensboro290W110-64
11/17VCU43W85-79
11/24(N)Seton Hall47L85-74
11/25(N)Boise St52W81-70
11/26(N)Texas46L102-97
12/3@Auburn34L83-73
12/6UNC Asheville250W75-63
12/10Liberty105W85-45
12/13Kansas17L77-76
12/17TX Southern330W108-72
12/21(N)Mississippi57W76-62
12/31Wake Forest5979%
1/3Virginia2459%
1/6@Boston College15684%
1/10@Florida St10975%
1/17Georgia Tech13492%
1/20@Clemson3544%
1/24@Pittsburgh9068%
1/27Syracuse7682%
1/31@Wake Forest5959%
2/3@SMU4047%
2/7Virginia Tech6880%
2/9@Louisville1125%
2/14Miami FL3767%
2/17North Carolina2359%
2/24@Virginia2437%
2/28@Notre Dame5859%
3/2Duke636%
3/7Stanford9285%