Introduction
Kevin Andre Keatts (born July 28, 1972) is an American college basketball coach and the current men's head coach at NC State.
Coaching career
Keatts began his coaching career as an assistant at Southwestern Michigan College for the 1996-97 season. He then went to Hargrave Military Academy as an assistant coach for two seasons before being promoted to head coach in 1999. In 2001, Keatts moved to Marshall as an assistant coach to Greg White. He returned to Hargrave in 2003 and served as the head coach until 2011. During his ten years (over two stints) as the head coach at Hargrave, Keatts had a record of 262–17, and won two national championships.
In 2011, he earned a degree from Marshall. Keatts then joined the staff of Rick Pitino at Louisville and was a part of the Cardinals' 2013 NCAA Division I national championship team.
On March 27, 2014, he was named the head coach of UNC Wilmington (UNCW), succeeding Buzz Peterson. In Keatts' first season at UNCW he was named CAA Conference Coach of the Year after leading the Seahawks to their first conference championship in nine years, and first winning season in seven (7) years.
In his second year, Keatts repeated his rookie-year double, once again winning the CAA regular-season championship and Conference Coach of the Year. In winning the 2016 conference coach of the year, he became the first coach in CAA history to ever win the award in consecutive years.
On March 17, 2017, Keatts became the head coach at North Carolina State University, succeeding Mark Gottfried.
Head coaching record
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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| UNC Wilmington Seahawks (Colonial Athletic Association) (2014–2017) | |||||||||
| 2014–15 | UNC Wilmington | 18–14 | 12–6 | T–1st | CIT First Round | ||||
| 2015–16 | UNC Wilmington | 25–8 | 14–4 | T–1st | NCAA First Round | ||||
| 2016–17 | UNC Wilmington | 29–6 | 15–3 | 1st | NCAA First Round | ||||
| UNC Wilmington: | 72–28 (.720) | 41–13 (.759) | |||||||
| North Carolina State Wolfpack (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2017–present) | |||||||||
| 2017–18 | NC State | 0–0 | 0–0 | ||||||
| Total: | 72–28 (.720) | ||||||||
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National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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