NC State basketball faces its first true road test of the season this week.
Kevin Keatts' eighth NC State basketball squad fell outside the top 100 in the NET Rankings, a metric used to evaluate NCAA Tournament hopefuls, following its consecutive losses to the Purdue Boilermakers, BYU Cougars, and Texas Longhorns. But the Wolfpack isNC State now appears at No. 92 overall and No. 9 among ACC teams. The other nine from the conference inside the top 100 are the Duke Blue Devils at No. 4, Clemson Tigers at No. 11, Pitt Panthers at No. 16, SMU Mustangs at No.
Keatts and his Pack, 6-1 at home and 0-2 in neutral settings, have an opportunity to boost their stock considerably this week. After hosting the Coppin State Eagles in Reynolds Coliseum at 7 p.m. ET Tuesday , they will head to Lawrence, Kan., to square off against the blueblood Kansas Jayhawks at 3:15 p.m. ET Saturday .
Kansas dropped from No. 1 to No. 10 in this week's Associated Press Top 25 Poll and currently sits No. 17 in the NET Rankings.Matt Giles is the editor and publisher of NC State Wolfpack on SI, Duke Blue Devils on SI, and North Carolina Tar Heels on SI, making him a key source for comprehensive coverage of these storied college basketball programs.
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