One of retired North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams’ favorite sayings is that everything always looks better when the ball goes through the basket. It’s an adage to which both his former team and rival […]
DURHAM — Duke dominated inside on its way to a 88-73 win over visiting NC State on Saturday. The Wolfpack were without starting center Manny Bates, who suffered a season-ending injury in November, and didn’t […]
RALEIGH — The NC State basketball team is like a doughnut. It has a large hole in the middle. That’s a situation coach Kevin Keatts can’t do much about, not with his best big man, […]
Steve Forbes is usually the life of the party, a fact he reinforced recently by showing up to a postgame media session wearing a string of blinking Christmas lights around his neck. But Friday, shortly […]
RALEIGH — NC State trailed by 14 with 10 minutes remaining in regulation and by five with less than two to go in the second overtime. It lost its starting point guard to an ejection, […]
RALEIGH — Kevin Keatts wasn’t happy with his NC State basketball team at halftime of its game against Texas Southern on Sunday. But not because it wasn’t making shots. Or that it was trailing by […]
The NC State basketball team had to reinvent itself last February when leading scorer Devon Daniels was lost to a torn ACL. This time, misfortune didn’t wait as long to visit the Wolfpack. The season-altering […]
Kevin Keatts said he “didn’t want his mind to go to the worst situation” on Tuesday when addressing the status of star center Manny Bates following NC State’s season-opening win against Bucknell. Friday, he had […]
RALEIGH — Shortly before the start of Tuesday’s basketball season opener against Bucknell, NC State announced that veteran guard Thomas Allen had received a one-game suspension from the NCAA for his participation in an unsanctioned […]
If Jericole Hellems played football instead of basketball, NC State coach Kevin Keatts knows exactly what position he’d play. Think Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzalez, or Jimmy Graham. “He’s my tight end,” Keatts said recently at […]
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