Sure, the first day of the 2019 college basketball offseason might feel too soon to guess at what’s going to happen in 2020, but son if you aren’t in the computer lab getting plots up already then you’re being out-grinded by somebody else in the bracketology world.
Joe Lunardi obliged us with his early prediction at next year’s NCAA tournament field and he is surprisingly optimistic about NC State, which he has as a No. 5 seed in the East. State hasn’t been seeded anywhere near that high since it was a 3-seed in the 2004 field.