The 2025–26 NC State Wolfpack men's basketball team represented North Carolina State University during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Wolfpack were led by first-year head coach Will Wade and played their home games at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Wade began his first season after Kevin Keatts was not retained after the previous season.

The Wolfpack began the season with four straight wins. They entered the AP poll as the twenty-fifth ranked team after their defeat of UNC Greensboro. A defeat of VCU saw them rise to twenty-third, a ranking they took to the Maui Invitational. They lost their opening game of the tournament by nine-points against Seton Hall. A rebound win over Boise State by eleven points couldn't prevent them from falling out of the rankings. The team left Hawaii finishing in sixth place after a loss to Texas. They lost at twentith-ranked Auburn in the ACC–SEC Challenge before winning two games against non-Power 4 opponents. The Wolfpack lost to nineteenth-ranked Kansas in overtime before winning their final two non-conference games. They defeated their first Power 4 opponent of the season in the final game of their non-conference schedule, a 76–62 victory over Ole Miss. The team defeated rivals Wake Forest in their first ACC game. The Wolfpack went 3–2 over their next five games, with losses coming against twenty-first ranked Virginia and Georgia Tech. They defeated eighteenth-ranked Clemson in overtime over this stretch. The team won its next five straight games, including a rivalry rematch against Wake Forest and a one-point victory at SMU. The Wolfpack couldn't carry the momentum through to the end of the season as they lost six of their last seven games. Their only victory in the stretch was an upset win over rivals and sixteenth-ranked North Carolina. They lost to three ranked teams over the stretch: top ranked, and rivals Duke, eleventh-ranked Virginia, and twenty-fourth ranked Louisville. They also suffered an overtime loss to Notre Dame.

The Wolfpack finished the season 20–14 overall and 10–8 in ACC play to finish in a tie for seventh place. As the seventh seed in the 2026 ACC tournament They earned a bye into the Second Round where they defeated Pittsburgh by ten points. They run ended there as they lost to Virginia for a third time this season. Virginia was the second seed and ranked tenth at the time of this meeting. The Wolfpack earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament and were placed in the First Four as one of the eleven-seeds in the West region. They lost to Texas, for the second time this season, to end their season.

Previous season

The Wolfpack finished the season 12–19 and 5–15 in ACC play to finish in sixteenth place. Under the new ACC tournament rules, they did not qualify for the 2025 ACC tournament and were unable to defend their tournament title. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament or the NIT. After the season, head coach Kevin Keatts was fired just one year after leading the team to the Final Four.

Offseason

Departures Departures 0 G 6'5" 200 Orlando, Florida Transferred to Vanderbilt 1 F 6'10" 240 Clarksville, Tennessee Entered transfer portal 3 G/F 6'8" 210 Kinston, North Carolina Entered transfer portal 4 G 6'0" 175 Reidsville, North Carolina Entered transfer portal 5 G 6'1" 165 Fayetteville, North Carolina Transferred to Seton Hall 7 G 6'5" 170 Chicago, Illinois Transferred to Dayton 8 G 6'4" 195 Indianapolis, Indiana Graduated 10 G 6'4" 185 Rockford, Illinois Transferred to Texas A&M 11 G 6'6" 205 Richmond, Virginia Transferred to Radford 12 G 6'2" 195 Mineola, New York Graduated 13 G 5'10" 165 Cary, North Carolina — 24 F 6'9" 200 Alachua, Florida Graduated 33 F 6'9" 215 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec Transferred to Northern Iowa 34 F 6'10" 240 Fort Lauderdale, Florida Graduated

Incoming transfers Incoming transfers 1 F 6'6" 225 Sacramento, California Texas Tech 5 G 6'2" 195 Minneapolis, Minnesota Michigan State 7 G 6'3" 200 Powder Springs, Georgia McNeese 11 G 6'6" 220 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania McNeese 12 C 6'10" 280 Mundelein, Illinois Wyoming 15 F 6'9" 230 Rochester, New York Florida State 21 G 6'6" 205 Beaumont, Texas Houston 22 F 6'9" 250 Orlando, Florida North Carolina 45 F 6'7" 230 Raleigh, North Carolina Butler

2025 recruiting class

Roster

Schedule and results

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Source

Rankings

*AP did not release a week 8 poll.

References