I'm sorry but there is an understandable amount of NET-hate from teams that have been particularly harmed by it, and Wake is one of those teams. The Alondes/LaRavia team won 13 conference games with a Kenpom top 40 ranking and didn't get a bid, arguably the best ACC team in history not to get an invite. And the ACC sent two teams to the Final Four that year, one of which we'd recently blown out and the other we lost by 2 on the road, plus we'd just won our only matchup against the 3rd team that got a bid. Also it wasn't just the no-bid, it was the messaging that even if we'd won another ACC game in the tourney we still definitely wouldn't have gotten in because the NET dictated there was no value in the win. 37 teams with worse Kenpom rankings made the tournament. I remember when we hit 13 ACC wins Jay Bilas saying we were a lock and all the analysts with him agreeing, so it's not like that was a "semi-legitimate" claim. That was just straight bullshit, especially when the retrospective showed we potentially slipped a few critical spots thanks to not running up the score in blowouts.
Obviously last year's team ran out of gas down the stretch and didn't deserve a bid, but at 9-6 in conference the messaging was we had to win out to have a chance because our remaining games all fell in the wrong quad buckets. Of course NC State with a worse record and Kenpom than us the previous year gets a bid despite losing 3 of their last 4. Including twice to a Clemson bubble team that didn't get a bid.
To be fair, the hate is more for how the Net and quad system is applied at the expense of common sense, of metrics over wins. Over time the NET is as decent a measure as any. But it's not like every program is getting equally screwed over the past few years and everyone should just shut up and accept the nonsense.