So far we know this much about Kevin Keatts: he’s a good coach, and he is capable of assembling NCAA-tournament caliber teams at NC State. Beyond that? It’s hard to say. It’s still early in his tenure here, and there has been a lot of roster turnover, which has led to obvious problems.
With significant changes in personnel overall, but with Markell Johnson and Torin Dorn as notable mainstays, State’s offense in year two hasn’t gone off a cliff, though it is, not surprisingly, less effective than it was last season:
State played the seventh-toughest league schedule in Keatts’ first year, and it has played the seventh-toughest in 2019, so that’s a wash.