NCAA Tournament March Madness

#29 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 Central343W114-66
11/7UAB135W94-70
11/12UNC Greensboro306W110-64
11/17VCU46W85-79
11/24(N)Seton Hall50L85-74
11/25(N)Boise St53W81-70
11/26(N)Texas34L102-97
12/3@Auburn30L83-73
12/6UNC Asheville223W75-63
12/10Liberty91W85-45
12/13Kansas11L77-76
12/17TX Southern311W108-72
12/21(N)Mississippi68W76-62
12/31Wake Forest77W70-57
1/3Virginia16L76-61
1/6@Boston College140W79-71
1/10@Florida St93W113-69
1/17Georgia Tech144L78-74
1/20@Clemson28W80-76
1/24@Pittsburgh107W81-72
1/27Syracuse70W88-68
1/31@Wake Forest77W96-78
2/3@SMU36W84-83
2/7Virginia Tech59W82-73
2/9@Louisville15L118-77
2/14Miami FL4169%
2/17North Carolina2560%
2/24@Virginia1630%
2/28@Notre Dame8269%
3/2Duke329%
3/7Stanford7483%