NC State’s first eight minutes at Notre Dame were fine—not necessarily ideal, but something the Wolfpack could work with. After that? The less said, the better. The bottom fell out at the offensive end, Notre Dame kept making jumpers, and the Irish barely had to sweat over the final 30 minutes on the way to an 88-58 victory.
This was not quite the response Kevin Keatts was looking for after a rough performance at Clemson. NC State was somehow worse on Wednesday, completely losing the plot in the second half amid an atrocious shooting start. NC State played poorly in the first half; in the second, it hardly played at all.