There’s nothing positive to be found in this one—a bad effort against a bad team led to a bad result. It’s definitely confounding to watch a team that just beat Louisville and Notre Dame play as poorly as NC State did Thursday night, but that makes it no less true.
State got exactly what it earned, which is the frustrating part. Georgia Tech played with more effort and consistently won the battles on the glass, which eventually proved the difference.
State was also just really bad offensively, firing up what felt like a record number of airballs, and it’s not like all of them were contested.