The Wolfpack men's and women's teams both made the Final Four on Sunday, setting off major celebrations for a title-starved campus.
THE CENTER OF THE COLLEGE BASKETBALL UNIVERSE — It is exactly 1 p.m. the day after the biggest win of Kevin Keatts’ coaching career — ’s improbable Elite Eight victory over rival , sending the Wolfpack to its first Final Four since 1983 — and Keatts is steps from the entrance to the campus bookstore. Unsurprisingly, the man behind the school’s most successful postseason run in over four decades cannot get far without being stopped. Advertisement Like, not even a few feet.
Gusler, also an attorney, worked with Valvano when he was accused of NCAA infractions late in his coaching career, ones that ultimately forced him to resign as coach and athletic director. Gusler and his wife, like so many long-suffering NC State fans, have long felt that the university’s mishandling of the Valvano situation — years before his famous ESPY speech and death from cancer — cast a pall over the entire place. “We’ve had a curse on us,” Gusler said.
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