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NC State’s Keatts talks about his new pair of guards

Kevin Keatts has only been on the job at N.C. State for six weeks but he has been able to add two new players to the Wolfpack program.

Keatts, who made his first stop with the Wolfpack Club Caravan tour on Thursday at Reynolds Coliseum, said both freshman guard Lavar Batts and graduate transfer guard Al Freeman will help right away and fit into his pressing, up-tempo system.

Batts, a top 100 recruit from Concord, had originally signed with Virginia Commonwealth but changed his mind after a coaching change. Keatts had tried to recruit the 6-2, 160-pound point guard at UNCW.