Hey, everybody, hope the holiday is going well. NC State is back at it this afternoon—and in the winner’s bracket!—against Northern Iowa. The winner of this contest will face Villanova at noon on Friday in the title game, while the loser will play Tennessee at 2:30 p.m. Friday. Let’s not play in that third-place game, okay?
State-UNI is pretty much a toss up (KenPom has State by one) and I would absolutely expect a tight one because the Panthers do a few things really well. They shoot a lot of threes and they make them at a high rate, too.