NC State Basketball
NBC Picks NC State 9th in Preseason Rankings?
There has been a lot of hype swirling around the NC State basketball program heading into the 2016-17 season. It looks like NBC is willing to buy the hype of point guard Dennis Smith Jr., but not necessarily the Wolfpack team he is a part of. NBC has officially given NC State locker room bulletin board material by picking them 9th in their preseason rankings.
9. N.C. State: The Wolfpack have a ton of talent, namely freshmen Dennis Smith Jr. and Omer Yurtseven. Will all the pieces come together? (NBC)
1) Duke
2) UVA
3) UNC
4) Louisville
5) VT
6) Syracuse
7) Miami
8) Notre Dame
9) NC State
10) FSU
11) Pitt
12) Clemson
13) Wake Forest
14) Georgia Tech
15) Boston College
Dennis Smith Jr. was also put on their preseason All-ACC First Team
Dennis Smith Jr., N.C. State: I’m not sure how good the Wolfpack will be, but assuming his ACL is back to 100%, Smith may be the single-most talented player in the conference. (NBC)
This is fair. State is going to be led by two freshmen (Smith and Omer), so we have no reason to be ranked higher. We haven’t proven anything yet. They’re probably two of the best freshmen/players in college basketball, but we don’t know that yet. Therefor, this is fair.
I will call shan’t the Insey state-based fan not to feed too much into the hype about where Insey state stands in the ACC I will use this to few teams to become better our use it as opposed to maybe getting back