As human beings, we tend to rate things based on some ratio of immediacy and the surreal nature of whatever it is we just saw. That's fine, but it's also misleading a lot of the time. What I'm trying to address here is the sheer strangeness of talking about this NC State basketball team, which is nearly endless in contradiction.
This NC State basketball season has been awful. There have been brief moments of good times, and a couple upsets, but mostly it has been awful. State has no chance of reaching the NCAAs without winning the conference tournament.