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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
New big man Dusan Mahorcic wont be making the trip, though that doesnt appear to be injury-related.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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