Shortly after the 68-team field was announced for the 2021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the 16-team field for the NIT was set, too. Of those 16 teams, one comes from the ACC: 3-seed NC State.
NC State will play 2-seed Davidson in the first round of the NIT: Thursday, March 18. The game will take place in Denton, Texas. The winner of this matchup will advance to play the winner of Colorado State and Buffalo.
NC State-Davidson in the first round of the NIT tournament
— Jonas Pope IV (@JEPopeIV) March 15, 2021
NC State most recently participated in the NIT back in 2019. During the 2019 NIT, NCSU won its first two game — Hofstra and Harvard. However, the Wolfpack lost a thriller in Reynolds Coliseum against Lipscomb.
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