NC State head coach Will Wade met with Wolfpack Sports Network to discuss the 118-77 loss at No. 24 Louisville.
Coach, 118-77, I didn’t think I’d say that number aloud tonight, to be honest. 118 by Louisville. 77, not as many as you average. 118 is a huge problem. 45 points from Mikel Brown. He was on fire tonight, to say the least. 10 of 16 from three.
Yeah, just, I mean, we got bludgeoned. I mean, there’s no way to artfully talk around. I mean, we just got killed. So, I mean, look, the funny thing was, I thought we had, you look back in hindsight, we had a great shoot-around. We actually had great prep. I mean, you’ve been in our shoot-arounds.This was one of our better ones. We just got off to a slow start. We got down 14 to 4. We cut it to 5 and missed the 3 in transition. We could never get any footing, and they just, I mean, they just whipped us off the bounce. They just whipped us off the bounce, drove us. And when they weren’t laying it in, they put us in rotation, and we’re picking who they wanted to shoot from 3. So, I mean, we just got, we got whipped…