N.C. State basketball’s 2025-26 schedule is set, with the Wolfpack set to pay $540,000 to six nonconference teams, according to documents obtained by the USA TODAY Network through a public records request.

Entering its debut season under coach Will Wade , the Wolfpack will pay between $80,000 and $100,000 to its out-of-conference opponents in the regular season.

N.C. State tips off the regular and "red reckoning" era under Wade on Nov. 3 against N.C. Central, which will receive $90,000 in guaranteed compensation. Considered “buy games,” UAB (Nov. 7), UNC Greensboro and UNC Asheville (Dec. 6) will also get $90,000 for coming to Raleigh. Liberty (Dec. 10) will receive $80,000.

Texas Southern, which is N.C. State's heritage game opponent at Reynolds Coliseum on Dec. 17, will receive a seas

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