N.C. State’s baseball team has been to the NCAA tournament 15 times (in 20 seasons) under coach Elliott Avent. All of Avent’s tournament teams won at least 34 games before the NCAA tournament.
After a three-game ACC sweep of Virginia Tech this past weekend, the Wolfpack stands at 25-20 on the season with 10 regular-season games left and then two more guaranteed games in the ACC tournament. That’s at least 12 chances to win nine more games to hit what has been Avent’s magic number.
That will be a difficult task, even with some winnable games coming up on the schedule.