All the adoration around the new-look North Carolina State team was nice leading up to the season.Now there’s some serious business for the Wolfpack at the end of the season’s first week.UAB visits NC State for a Friday night game in Raleigh, N.C.The Wolfpack (1-0) rolled to a 114-66 win over visiting North Carolina Central in the season opener on Monday. They are anticipating a bigger challenge from the Blazers (1-0), perhaps what NC State needs under first-year coach Will Wade.”If you’re feeling pressure, that means you didn’t put in enough work,” Wolfpack guard Quadir Copeland said. “I feel like the work we put in this summer nobody can match. … So I feel like the stuff that we did, it prepared us for this, like these moments.”UAB also started strong by throttling Mississippi Valley State 106-55 on Monday in Birmingham, Ala.”Both of us are going at it with a limited knowledge base because we’re trying to figure out our own teams,” Blazers coach Andy Kennedy said. “I know we’re going to have to play really good to give ourselves a chance.”Wade, with LSU, and Kennedy, at Ole Miss, both spent time directing Southeastern Conference teams, but they overlapped during just one season in that league.The Blazers will expect more resistance from the Wolfpack.”We’ll be outsized against NC State, I’m sure,” Kennedy said.UAB will have NC State’s attention as well.