1) Take care of the ball
N.C. State has a turnover problem. Georgia Tech doesn’t force a ton of turnovers but neither does Miami and the Wolfpack turned the ball over 15 times in the ACC opener on Dec. 31.
N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried learned a lot from John Wooden when he got his coaching start as an assistant at UCLA in the 1990s. The sixth-year Wolfpack coach could use a quick primer from Tennessee legend General Robert Neyland. The first of Neyland’s game maxims: The team that makes the fewest mistakes will win.