There were few stretches tonight during which NC State looked like the best team on the court; certainly there were none during the second half. The better team won this game and won it easily—Wright State got off to a hot start in the second half and never looked back.
The numbers don’t really matter after a result like this. Terquavion Smith played well and Jerricole Hellems had some good sequences but nobody else on this team bothered showing up at either end of the floor. Wright State stopped turning the ball over in the second half and knocked down shot after shot as its confidence grew, and that’s really all there is to it.