NC State’s improbable ACC tournament run: How DJ Burns Jr., belief lifted Wolfpack

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The No. 10 seed won five games in five days and became the first double-digit seed to win a high-major conference tournament.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With 47 seconds left in the most improbable run in ACC tournament history, stood up from his folding chair on NC State’s sideline, turned to the rabid red-clothed crowd behind him, extended his pointer finger and mouthed three words over and over again: I told you. The center pointed directly at his parents, Dwight Sr. and Takela, through a sightline to their second-row Capital One Arena seats. Dwight Sr.

When Keatts arrived in Raleigh in 2018, after back-to-back NCAA Tournament berths at UNC-Wilmington, it was a fun bit — a young coach giving his fan base and players something to cherish. But increasingly over the years, fewer and fewer NC State fans wanted to hear about ice cream. Instead, they wanted to talk about all the highly touted recruits who Keatts signed … who never played a minute in Raleigh: Jalen Lecque, Josh Hall, even current Kentucky star , a North Carolina native.

 

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