That was quick.
Three weeks ago, N.C. State was celebrating its first road win at Duke in 22 years.
Five games later? There are doubts about Mark Gottfried’s future as N.C. State’s coach and the Wolfpack (14-12, 3-10 ACC) has lost five straight.
The annual home game with No. 10 North Carolina (21-5, 9-3) doesn’t so much conjure up memories of the rivalry’s glorious past as it does the 107-56 beatdown the Tar Heels put on N.C. State in Chapel Hill on Jan. 8.
As bad as that loss was, a “disaster” as Gottfried called it on Tuesday, it wasn’t the beginning of the Wolfpack’s problems this season.