NC State forced Western Carolina to turn the ball over on 39.4% of its possessions on Wednesday night—33 turnovers total. That turnover rate was so high it prompted me to look back through the years at the Wolfpack’s best efforts in this category.
I looked through all of the games all the way back to the 2001-2002 season (that’s as far as the archives go at KenPom.com) and found that Wednesday night was the only instance of a defensive turnover rate over 39% in all that time. So there’s a pretty good chance that we just saw the Pack defense generate its best defensive turnover rate this century.