NC State's nine-game winning streak has helped it move into the RPI top-40 and put it back on the radar for the NCAA tournament, and a few weeks back, this would have felt impossible. The latest NCAA tournament projections from Perfect Game and D1Baseball.com have the Pack in the field as a three-seed***.
(***If you aren't familiar with the format: the NCAA tournament begins initially with 16 regionals of four teams apiece. In each regional, the teams are seeded one through four, with the host team getting the one seed.)
Perfect Game has State playing in a regional with host Iowa, plus Arizona State and Central Michigan.