ON3’s James Fletcher III released an article grading the recent head coaching hires across the college basketball landscape, giving NC State an A+ for hiring Will Wade.
Here’s what Fletcher III had to say about the Wolfpack hiring Wade:
Will Wade receives the first A+ given out in the two-year history of these coaching grades, standing out as the all-in move of the offseason by NC State. Despite NCAA troubles which ended his LSU tenure prematurely, many of the problems are resolved in a new landscape of NIL, revenue-sharing and the transfer portal.
Wade has led three programs to the NCAA Tournament, including an impressive stint at McNeese where he turned a Southland roster into an analytics darling which sat higher in the NET rankings than 13 ACC teams in 2024-25.