NC State has reached an agreement to hire UNC Wilmington's Kevin Keatts to replace Mark Gottfried, sources told ESPN.
Sources said Keatts, who has led the Seahawks to the NCAA tournament the past two seasons, was interviewed Friday and has verbally accepted the job. UNC Wilmington lost to Virginia in the first round Thursday afternoon.
Prior to taking the job at UNC Wilmington, Keatts was an assistant under Rick Pitino at Louisville from 2011 to 2014. He was the head coach at Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia from 2003 to 2011 before being hired by Pitino.