NC State basketball parts ways with head coach Kevin Keatts

Kevin Keatts eight-year tally arsenic the caput manager of the N.C. State men's hoops squad has travel to an abrupt end. On Sunday, the assemblage announced its determination to portion ways Keatts.

The determination comes little than a twelvemonth aft Keatts coached the Wolfpack to the Atlantic Coast Conference title and the Final Four. N.C. State ended the 2024-25 regular play with a 12-19 record.

Athletic manager Boo Corrigan released a connection thanking Keatts for his "contributions" and besides acknowledged past year's heavy tally successful the NCAA tournament.

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"I privation to convey Coach Keatts for his contributions to N.C. State and for ever representing the assemblage with class," the connection from Corrigan read. "He volition ever person a treasured spot successful Wolfpack past for the accomplishments of his 2023-24 squad and I admit the passionateness helium brought to this role. We privation him and his household the champion successful the future."

Keatts described the past 8 years "a imagination travel true."

Mar 1, 2025; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; North Carolina State Wolfpack caput manager Kevin Keatts connected the sideline against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets successful the archetypal fractional astatine McCamish Pavilion. (Brett Davis-Imagn Images)

"As we participate this caller epoch of assemblage sports, I wholeheartedly judge that I americium leaving the programme successful amended presumption to win than erstwhile I started — and that the hoops programme volition proceed to thrive erstwhile supported to the level indispensable to compete," Keatts wrote successful a societal media station connected Sunday.

Keatts went 151-113 astatine N.C. State, including 69-84 successful ACC play. His teams earned 3 NCAA Tournament bids, the past coming erstwhile the Wolfpack followed a five-games-in-five-days thrust to their archetypal ACC Tournament rubric since 1987 with a just-as-unexpected tally to the program’s archetypal Final Four since the precocious Jim Valvano led the "Cardiac Pack" to the 1983 NCAA title.

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But helium couldn’t prolong that momentum arsenic this play turned into a crashout, with the Wolfpack’s retooling done the transportation portal — which had worked good capable to get N.C. State to back-to-back NCAA bids — proving to beryllium a large miss. N.C. State went conscionable 5-15 successful league play.

Mar 1, 2025; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; North Carolina State Wolfpack caput manager Kevin Keatts connected the sideline against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets successful the 2nd fractional astatine McCamish Pavilion.  (Brett Davis-Imagn Images)

The firing comes aft Keatts faced aggregate challenges successful his tenure, starting with stabilizing a wobbly programme connected the tribunal and past moving for years amid the shadiness of a national corruption probe into the athletics that was tied to predecessor Mark Gottfried's tenure.

Feb 19, 2025; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; North Carolina State Wolfpack caput manager Kevin Keatts reacts successful the archetypal fractional astatine Dean E. Smith Center. (Bob Donnan-Imagn Images)

That lawsuit hovered for years earlier the programme was placed connected a twelvemonth of probation successful December 2021.

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He arrived successful 2017 from UNC Wilmington promising that "Kevin Keatts is simply a winner" successful his introductory quality conference. In galore ways, helium matched that, peculiarly aft the programme had bottomed retired successful Gottfried’s last 2 seasons aft 4 consecutive NCAA bids. 

Keatts started with a 21-win play that included taking down highly ranked Duke, UNC and Arizona teams earlier reaching the NCAAs.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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