After crushing Notre Dame on the road in South Bend, things don’t get any easier just three days later as Virginia Basketball travels to Raleigh to take on the No. 23 NC State Wolfpack. That 23rd ranking is a bit misleading. NC State is No. 32 on KenPom and No. 29 in the NET ranking.
NC State is a little bit of an enigma. The Wolfpack are Wake Forest’s lone ACC win, but NCSU beat Auburn earlier in the season. NC State played on Saturday, needing a buzzer-beating three to escape Clemson at home. This was the cap on an 8-0 game ending run:
NC State, led by coach Kevin Keatts, are almost the exact opposite of Virginia under Tony Bennett.