NC State Basketball
NC State is the ONLY Team in the Triangle Ranked for the 1st Time in 40 Years
NC State’s Men’s Basketball team is back in the AP Top 25 for the first time in 4 years, landing at #22 in the Week 14 AP Poll.
NC State is ranked. Duke and UNC are not. Last time that was the case? December 27th, 1982. Over 40 years ago. It’s only the 6th time in 67 years that this has happened.
Anyone remember what happened that 1982-83 basketball season?
NC State won the National Championship.
Hey PI or anyone else, interested in going back and posting Preseason NCAA and ACC rankings/predictions? This great! But NCSU still has tons of work to do. I do not see an easy game left on our schedule. But winning home games plus one (or 2!) road games gets us in good position going into the ACCT.
Duke at Miami tonight. If Duke can win they’ll be close to creeping back in. Both are tied with us at 4 ACC losses, so one will fall back.
What’s important to remember is we aren’t the only team with tough schedules to finish out. I don’t see anyone good enough to win out, unless UVA beats us tomorrow. Then they probably become the team to beat. So its a huge game for UVA as well as us. This is exciting.
Duke getting killed at Miami does not help our chances for the double bye. UVA is the only remaining team on our schedule ranked ahead of us. Wining 4 of our last 7 seems possible but my persistent pessimism refuses to let me get excited, yet. Go Pack!
Ok Clemson is ranked ahead of us too. Half-Heimers, dementia, senior moments are all too real for me.
I think the Miami win helped us. Now both Duke and Miami are Q1 wins. Both are in the NET top 30
UVA starts as 7.5 point favorite
My favorite PI headline of the year
If anyone had predicted that could happen pre-season, they’d have been laughed at.