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How NC State Basketball built team chemistry and discipline at a summer camp with no cell service and Navy SEALS

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With the new NIL and transfer rules, rosters are turning over on a yearly basis, and building team chemistry is harder than ever.

It’s even harder when you have a brand new coach on top of all that churn.

Will Wade was one of the highest-profile hires of the offseason in college basketball, and he’s being tasked with turning around an NC State program that has UNC and Duke in their backyard. A program that has really played second fiddle for the past 40+ years.

I would have been easy for Wade to come in and pump the brakes and ask the fanbase for time to get acclimated and begin to build a program.