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Is key to N.C. State’s basketball resurgence, now and in future, rooted in Charlotte?

About two minutes – that’s all the time they spent together.

And even then, it wasn’t all four of them. But for about two second-half minutes in N.C. State’s 76-58 victory over Notre Dame on Saturday, three of the Wolfpack’s four Charlotteans – Torin Dorn, Lavar Batts Jr., and Allerik Freeman – C.J. Bryce is sitting out the year because of NCAA transfer requirements – took the court together.

It may not be apparent at first glance, but to have a cluster of players like that from the same region is unusual (although not unheard of). Another recent example is the Flintstones, a quartet of players from Flint, Mich.