Sharp shooting, resiliency allow N.C. State to get well with win over Penn State

To N.C. State coach Kevin Keatts, losing is a disease.

When his Wolfpack dropped back-to-back games to Northern Iowa and Tennessee last Thursday and Friday, he instructed his team to treat those games as if they were ill.

His point? Those weren’t the team’s best effort. They were less than 100 percent.

Practice offers time for recovery and Wednesday night his N.C. State team got well again.

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After falling behind Penn State 11-0 -- a relapse, perhaps? -- the Wolfpack stopped the Nittany Lions with its defense over the final minutes of the first half, forged ahead with sharp 3-point…