I think the poor free throw shooting on both sides cancel each other out. We just got manhandled by GT. They dominated the boards despite our team "length". Once again, Copeland was too much of our offense. He does not make his teammates better when he's shooting almost 20 times a game. This team is not good.

Quote :

"Don’t worry.. we keep racking up good losses. I hear the committee will really value those this year."

as i said, this is probably our best quad 4 loss in the last 20 years!!!

1/17/2026 2:31:37 PM

I thought these types of losses would stop once we moved on from KK

1/17/2026 2:43:57 PM

These types of losses aren’t uncommon for mediocre teams. Which we are. But just makes all the red reckoning talk that much more foolish

1/17/2026 2:58:56 PM

Hey, the good news is, this will probably only be a Quad 3 loss for now.

1/17/2026 3:12:32 PM

Really no one had a good game today, awful shooting. How many layups did Copeland miss? That was the worst Able has looked since early in the year. I guess everyone got too overconfident after the FSU beatdown.

1/18/2026 12:02:14 AM

Yeah, it seemed like they didn't expect GT to play them as tough defensively as they did. Like some of the stuff they were doing to Darrion Williams. That sequence where he got blocked trying to fade away against a double team where the 7 foot guy came over to help was .

It also seems odd that we moved away a bit from the lineup mix that seemed so dominating against FSU. Arcenaux and Sagnia's minutes got cut in half (some of Sagnia's might have been due to the head bump though). Even if he had been doing nothing else, Arcenaux came in with his reduced minutes and was ripping down rebounds in a game where we got badly outrebounded.

Also, as predicted, we bumped GT up in the NET rankings enough that they are now a Quad 3 loss instead of Quad 4. Ha. I guess we are gonna have to be big Georgia Tech fans going forward.

1/18/2026 3:42:27 PM

Dumbass foul by holloman

1/20/2026 7:11:12 PM

Supremely dumbass shit

1/20/2026 7:14:19 PM

The success rate on DW backing his man down and shooting a 8-10 footer has to be sub 20% in ACC play

1/20/2026 7:35:32 PM

We run the worst fucking in bounds plays I’ve ever seen

1/20/2026 7:50:18 PM

^^https://www.trinityroadtimes.com/post/nc-state-is-just-crazy-inconsistent

Quote :

"Darrion Williams’ post-up game is nonexistent right now. He can certainly affect winning in lots of ways, but playing though his back-to-the-basket game is not one at this moment. A lot of people made the point that Wade’s press conference tirade was delivered to an audience of one, and that’s fine. I don’t take any issue with the coach using that moment to speak to his player. It doesn’t make the statement accurate, though. He hasn't been the same player. Since returning to the lineup after sitting out the Texas Southern game, Williams is 11/40 from two, just above 25%. That's from two, not three. He’s a great passer out of the post, but he’s not scoring when teams aren’t doubling him, and that double has basically stopped coming because of it"

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 7:51 PM. Reason : 2]

1/20/2026 7:51:26 PM

Yeah thats bad. And it brings nothing to the offense. He rarely passes out of that look once he’s worked his man down to the post. It’s a low probability shot. I just don’t get why we/he keep doing it. Just trying something different. It ain’t working and if he’s not gonna pass out of it or get some kind of cutting action from somebody for an easy look then it’s just a wasted possession.

1/20/2026 8:00:15 PM

I’m not saying Breed is the answer. He’s not. But he’s played almost none today and Holloman has gotten lots of minutes. And Holloman has been doing jack shit out there. Just seems like an odd lineup adjustment that is paying 0 dividends

1/20/2026 8:18:54 PM

Really don’t like this lineup

Q, Able, Holloman, Musa, TA

1/20/2026 8:27:53 PM

Gotta find a way to get McNeil some open looks

1/20/2026 8:28:19 PM

Quote :

"But he’s played almost none today and Holloman has gotten lots of minutes. And Holloman has been doing jack shit out there. Just seems like an odd lineup adjustment that is paying 0 dividends"

True but he's not giving up wide ass open 3s by being bad at defense either

1/20/2026 8:41:35 PM

Cool that we can review this out of bounds call so we can see the very obvious missed over the back on clemson

1/20/2026 8:59:28 PM

Offense has gone to absolute shit

1/20/2026 9:01:28 PM

le sigh

1/20/2026 9:01:49 PM

Wade and Brownell trying to outdo each other on terrible reviews

1/20/2026 9:03:11 PM

...you called a timeout to set up that?

1/20/2026 9:10:48 PM

Tired of OT

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 9:11 PM. Reason : ^a wide open jumper?

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 9:11 PM. Reason : Or brownell? ]

1/20/2026 9:10:54 PM

It worked against Kentucky

Was also set up better

1/20/2026 9:11:42 PM

Good look from DW. That’s one you gotta make. Open. Mid range.

Gotta get McNeil some looks. He’s our best shooter, can get scorching hot and totally change a game. And he’s been so quiet.

1/20/2026 9:12:36 PM

18 foot jumpers are notoriously the best shots in the game, it's true

1/20/2026 9:12:41 PM

Fan work is thirsty work

1/20/2026 9:13:29 PM

^^i mean yea when you only need 2 and you're wide open...

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 9:14 PM. Reason : Sorry they didn't get a wide open dunk]

1/20/2026 9:14:28 PM

how the hell are they 16-3

1/20/2026 9:14:54 PM

#1 in the Carolinas

1/20/2026 9:16:21 PM

Never in doubt

1/20/2026 9:24:12 PM

You can't beat the beach

1/20/2026 9:24:51 PM

Yay! Q1!

Boy that was kinda ugly.

1/20/2026 9:26:05 PM

I think what we're supposed to say after a win is this team is still not good

1/20/2026 9:28:30 PM

1/20/2026 9:30:50 PM

1/20/2026 9:39:35 PM

Hell yeah

1/20/2026 9:43:41 PM

I was so busy tonight that I hardly had a minute to look at the box score.

We're now 1-3 vs ranked teams!

1/20/2026 10:23:23 PM

The win is good but more importantly GT now has a win against a team with a win on the road at Clemson which now means our loss at home v GT is an even better loss. Take notice committee!

[Edited on January 20, 2026 at 11:07 PM. Reason : .]

1/20/2026 11:07:22 PM

Coach Wade has never lost to Clemson

1/20/2026 11:07:27 PM

Quote :

"NC State’s win tonight at Clemson was worth 0.81 WAB (wins-above-bubble) which makes it a top 10 win in the country by any team. Can’t be overstated how huge of a win that was "

https://twitter.com/i/status/2013803892983615563

It's me I'm Justin's image

1/20/2026 11:41:10 PM

DOUBLE POST

Quote :

"NC State head coach Will Wade postgame on being 3-0 on the road in the ACC: "It's a pretty good thing we're good on the road because we're awful at home." "

1/20/2026 11:46:15 PM

^^ i like how that post uses an image/data that is 2+ weeks old. I'm sure there have been no other good wins in the last 2 weeks in all of college basketball. Like 3 seconds of clicking through to the quoted dudes website shows this win is like 15th best not 10th. But who needs to post true things on the internet?


But anyways, no one was claiming it was not a big win. It is easily the best win of the season. Not even a close second to it currently

1/21/2026 1:16:58 AM

(please don't count the people on the podium)

1/21/2026 9:17:26 AM

10-5/8th place, 11-1/4th place, 11-7/8th place...

Everyone gets a participation trophy!

1/21/2026 9:52:40 AM

Really did a good job stopping the rising Clemson!

1/21/2026 10:59:56 AM

lol i can't even think of a pun this week

1/21/2026 11:04:17 AM

Just listened to bits of Corey Smith's podcast. Interesting tidbit was that we have 3 players rated in the top 100 by Evan Miya on the season. in the 16 years of tracking, we've never had more than 1 player finish in the top 100.

Quadir Copeland is #45
Paul Mcneil is #67
Darrion Williams is #85

1/21/2026 4:15:19 PM

What's the fewest players we've ever had on DMS's "Dogshit" list

1/21/2026 5:03:22 PM

GOOD WIN LETS STACK SOME MORE.

WFT WAS THAT GT GAME, DIDN'T SEE IT

1/21/2026 5:46:38 PM

^^^ feels like we really need to figure out how to get PM more looks.

Quote :

"What's the fewest players we've ever had on DMS's "Dogshit" list"

Oh god this is a tough question. Even some of our best teams have had players that were very dogshit for extended periods of time. But I gotta say the ‘24 Final Four team (still wild to say that! It actually happened!) was low on dogshit players. MOC and Jayden Taylor had dogshit tendencies but they could hide it for periods too. The Al Freeman team probably ranked pretty low on the dogshit meter also

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 6:48 PM. Reason : H]

1/21/2026 6:45:42 PM