Before the season started, there was this feeling of irrational confidence that only comes from offseason basketball. I told myself to stop following NC State Basketball on Instagram (but didn’t). They were showing tons of offseason training videos that (at the time) felt like they were irrationally inflating my confidence in this team.
Turns out I may not have been wrong to feel like something was brewing in the Dail Center in the summer.
NC State has risen to its highest ranking in half a decade, now sitting at #15 in the Week 10 AP Poll, up three spots from #18.