As you showed above, State only has 3 games remaining against the 5 teams at the top of the conference. But State’s ACC schedule was not balanced having played 3 games against the Top 5 in the first five games of their conference slate. On the other end of the scale, State plays the minimum of four games against the bottom of the conference…with only the ND game completed.
So I have to agree that the schedule seems favorable towards racking up wins…even if the final destination is the NIT.
EDIT
OOOPS….State has played two games against the bottom 4 (ND and GT)
