NC State Men’s Basketball Is Returning To The Final Four

NC State Men’s Basketball Is Returning To The Final Four

These young men um in the locker room from day one have kind of believed in everything that I’ve preached to them and everything that they talked about you know at the beginning of the year we talked we talked about what are your goals and I think to a man everyone said

We want to win the ACC check uh what’s your other goal is obviously you know go on and compete for a national championship and we’re still alive for that opportunity uh means a lot you know I I think you know School deserves it um you know our players have really worked

Hard um the fans deserve it uh we’ve done a really good job um you know when I say we I mean I always say we I’m saying these young men in the locker room through all of the adversity that we have went through ups and downs of

Winning games losing games um they never lost their faith and stay together and it it means a lot it really does just to know that you know all the the ups and downs we had in our season and when it it could have been easy to quit I feel

Like he was the main one that kind of kept us all together and kept you know the outlook on our whole season uh very positive and uh gave us a lot of confidence going into that ACC tournament yeah I think I think just throughout this journey you know

Everyone’s made huge plays whether it’s just in the moment it might not seem pretty big whether it’s just a deflection or steel but it changes you know the trajectory of our run or the game um one one play I always look back to is his block last game off the

Backboard I thought that was huge and he comes down and has an n13 so I mean there’s just plays consistently being made by everyone that you know it might not be covered or might not be in the stat sheeter might not be all over you know social media but everyone’s been

Making huge plays down this run and that’s why I think I think that’s why we’re getting these wins and I’ll tell you what we did we we’ve broken the postseason up into different segments so when we left to go to DC we said we

Wanted to win DC we won DC then we we went to pit we said we want to win pit and now obviously in Texas we won Texas and it is um you know gets to a point you know when you’re winning games and like the way we are where you expect to

Win and I think our guys now are expecting to win and it’s uh you know it’s beautiful to watch I mean it’s a miracle run uh but we’re not surprised like we don’t we don’t go in we didn’t come into this tournament said hey let’s

Just try to be here we came here to win it and we did so now we got to move on to our next stage

For the first time since they won the 1983 National Championship, the NC State men’s basketball team is returning to the Final Four. The 11-seed and ACC Tournament Champions defeated Duke, 76-64, in the Elite Eight to advance to the Final Four in Pheonix. After the game, Head Coach Keven Keatts, Michael O’Connell, and DJ Horne spoke about the Wolfpacks’ improbable run and what this means for the program.

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