Kevin Keatts discusses NC States trip to the Bahamas – Backing The Pack

NC State will lead college basketball in trips to the Bahamas this year with two. The Wolfpack will be down there for the Battle 4 Atlantis over Thanksgiving, and this weekend theyre heading down to play a couple of exhibition games.

Schools are allowed these summer trips every few years, though obviously its been a while since its been possible to take them. This is as good a time as any for the Pack to take advantage of extra practices and start getting this team full of newcomers more comfortable playing together.

Kevin Keatts met with the media to discuss the trip and some other things, including his squads injury situation. Unfortunately, Greg Gantt wont be able to play thanks to a finger injury which Keatts said is likely to keep the forward out for a month. Ernest Ross, meanwhile, is fully cleared to play but isnt quite 100% recovered from the ankle injury he suffered in January.

New big man Dusan Mahorcic wont be making the trip, though that doesnt appear to be injury-related.

The Wolfpack will play a team from the Bahamas as well as the Puerto Rican national team. Keatts isnt much worried about the results of those games as he is about just getting a feel for his groups strengths and weaknesses. Its a fact-finding mission, as he put it.

NC State will be in the Bahamas from the sixth until the 11th. I dont imagine there will be any way to watch the Pack play, short of being there in person.

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Kevin Keatts discusses NC States trip to the Bahamas - Backing The Pack