When Does Ncsu Men Play Basketball Again
N.C. State basketball game enters this week'southward ACC Tournament on a downwards spiral.
The Wolfpack have lost 10 of their final xi games, and their 86-79 defeat at the easily of Florida State on Saturday locked them in every bit the ACC's official terminal-place finisher and No. 15 seed at the Barclays Eye in Brooklyn, Due north.Y., this week. N.C. State (eleven-xx, 4-16 ACC) plays No. ten seed Clemson on Tuesday afternoon.
Here are five things to know heading into that 4:thirty p.m. game, starting with some job security.
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Kevin Keatts' status
Regardless of how North.C. State fares in this calendar week's tournament, coach Kevin Keatts volition render for a sixth season in 2022-23, director of athletics Boo Corrigan confirmed to the News & Observer last week.
"The play will come," Corrigan told the N&O'southward Jonas Pope IV. "I believe in what Kevin is and who Kevin is from a basketball game coaching standpoint and I think he'south earned the right to (keep coaching at Northward.C. State)."
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Entering the tournament, Keatts is 90-67 overall and 43-l in ACC play at Due north.C. Country. Across five seasons, he's led the team to one NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018 and NIT appearances in 2019 and 2021. Northward.C. Country was in solid position for a 2020 NCAA Tournament bid before its cancelation due to COVID-19.
External factors such equally injuries and a looming NCAA probe into Northward.C. State'south previous basketball game coaching staff, ultimately resolved final Dec with minimal penalties, must also be "considered" Coorigan told the N&O. Keatts' contract runs another 4 years through 2025-26, co-ordinate to the AP.
Terquavion Smith standing out
Freshman baby-sit Terquavion Smith arrived in Raleigh terminal year as a consensus four-star recruit and three-fourth dimension country champion out of Farmville Central. In his debut season, he has been as good every bit advertised.
Smith finished the regular season averaging 16.5 points per game, 2nd for N.C. State and 8th among all ACC players, while nailing a briefing-best 96 3-pointers at an 37.9% clip. He also became the first freshman to lead the ACC in 3-pointers made since Duke'southward J.J. Redick in the 2002-03 season.
Dereon Seabron's success
While Smith poured in thirty points in Sat's loss to Florida Land, the 8th time he'southward led N.C. State in scoring in the last 10 games, another talented guard ended the season as the Wolfpack'due south top scorer: redshirt sophomore Dereon Seabron, who finished fifth amongst all ACC players at 17.3 points per game.
Seabron besides led N.C. State in full points, rebounds, assists and steals. He was one of just three Partitioning I players, and the merely in a power conference, to accomplish that feat in 2021-22, despite a few blips belatedly in ACC play (2 points in a Jan. 29 loss at UNC, 5 points in a March two loss at Wake Forest).
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Tournament runway tape
In four seasons under Keatts, N.C. State is 2-3 in ACC Tournament play. That includes 2 Midweek one-and-done finishes in 2018 and 2021 and two Thursday quarterfinals appearances in 2019 and 2020 (the latter tournament was canceled ahead of the quarterfinal round due to the coronavirus pandemic).
North.C. State's No. 15 seed for this tournament is too its worst in five years under Keatts. The Wolfpack were previously the No. v seed in 2018, No. 8 seed in 2019, No. five seed in 2020 and No. 9 seed in 2021.
Scouting Clemson
N.C. State has played its Tuesday opponent, No. x seed Clemson, once this season. The Tigers defeated the Wolfpack, lxx-65, on Jan. 8 in PNC Arena, and the headliner was 2d-half shooting. Clemson fabricated 15 of its 26 shots in those xx minutes, a 58% clip, hit ix of its 10 free throws for good measure.
In an early example of struggles to come for a Wolfpack team derailed by injuries to scholarship forrard (about notably star shot blocker Manny Bates), Clemson also got 20 points on x-xvi shooting from breakout sophomore big man P.J. Hall and outscored N.C. State 44-20 in the pigment in the win.
Ane positive from that 5-point January loss for N.C. State: Seabron. He had one of his all-time scoring and shooting performances confronting the Tigers' perimeter defenders with 27 points – his 3rd highest unmarried-game full this year – on 7-xv shooting inside the arc. Seabron also hit a season-high 2 three-pointers.
Chapel Fowler is a recruiting reporter for The Fayetteville Observer and the The states TODAY Network. Reach him by electronic mail at cfowler@gannett.com or on Twitter at @chapelfowler.
Source: https://www.fayobserver.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2022/03/07/north-carolina-state-wolfpack-mens-basketball-2022-acc-tournament-preview/6973787001/
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