If there has been an unusual aspect to NC State’s coaching change this time around, it hasn’t had anything to do with the head coaching search; that went off just fine. Kevin Keatts was hired quickly after his team was eliminated from the NCAA tournament in mid-March, and since then he’s been filling out his staff.
Keatts has hired a pair of assistants, a director of basketball operations, and strength and conditioning coach, but he still has an opening for the third assistant spot on the bench. That is not something that usually takes this long—the Gott Man, for example, had his bench staff done a week after he was hired.