Kevin Keatts (born July 28, 1972)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: NC State Wolfpack
Current conference: Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC)
UNC Wilmington record: 72-28 (.720)
NC State record: 139-94 (.597)
Overall record: 211-122 (.634)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 5 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2023, 2024)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 1 (2024)
- NCAA Tournament Final Four: 1 (2024)
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 2 (2019, 2021)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2015)
- ACC Regular Season Champion: 0
- CAA Regular Season Champion: 3 (2015, 2016, 2017)
- ACC Tournament Champion: 1 (2024)
- CAA Tournament Champion: 2 (2016, 2017)
Awards:
- CAA Coach of the Year: 2 (2015, 2016)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
2017-present | NC State |
2014-2017 | UNC Wilmington |
2011-2014 | Louisville (asst) |
2001-2003 | Marshall (asst) |
1996-1997 | Southwestern Michigan CC (asst) |
Kevin Keatts Facts
- Kevin Andre Keatts
- Born July 28, 1972
- Hometown: Lynchburg, Virginia
- Alma Mater: Marshall University (BA, 2011)
- Played four seasons for head coach Bill Pullen at Division III Ferrum College in Virginia
- Was head coach at Hargrave Military Academy (VA) from 1999-2001 and 2003-2011, amassing an overall record of 262-17
- In between head coaching stints, spent two seasons as an assistant to head coach Greg White at Marshall
- Won two national championships at Hargrave before returning to the collegiate coaching ranks at Louisville in 2011
- Served on Rick Pitino‘s Louisville staff in 2013 when the Cardinals won the NCAA National Championship (later vacated)
- Spent three years as head coach at UNC Wilmington, winning the CAA title each year and going to two NCAA Tournaments
- Hired in March 2017 to take over as head coach at North Carolina State
- Led the Wolfpack to the 2018 NCAA Tournament in his first season and the NIT quarterfinal in his second
- Won 23 games during the 2022-23 season, his fourth 20+ win record in six seasons, and reached the NCAA Tournament
- Led the Wolfpack to a surprise ACC Tournament crown in 2024, winning five games in five days as the 10-seed to get back to the NCAAT; the title also triggered a two-year contract extension for Keatts
- The Pack continued their magical run and made it all the way to the Final Four for the first time since 1983
Kevin Keatts Coaching Tree
- Takayo Siddle (UNC Wilmington)