Somehow, Kevin Keatts pulled it off. N.C. State leaves for its tour of Italy on Wednesday with 13 scholarship players on its roster, only seven of whom were around at the end of last season, only four of whom played any kind of a significant role for the Wolfpack.
Anyone in Keatts’ position would have had to do the same thing, and it’s easy to imagine different coaches having varying degrees of success. Time will tell on that. But with the addition of two graduate transfers, two regular transfers and two incoming freshmen, the most recent added on Friday, the Wolfpack will have enough players to actually get something done on its trip, even without Omer Yurtseven, who’s on international duty with Turkey’s under-20 team.