Kevin Keatts and James Johnson were teammates at Ferrum College and will work together at N.C. State.
Keatts, the Wolfpack’s new basketball coach, hired Johnson to be his assistant on Monday. Johnson agreed to a one-year deal worth $400,000.
Johnson, a former head coach at Virginia Tech, had spent the past two seasons at Miami as the director of basketball operations.
Keatts and Johnson were teammates at Ferrum, from 1991 to ’93, and helped the Panthers win the Dixie Conference title and reach the Division III NCAA tournament in 1992.
NC State's Keatts: 'Kevin Keatts is a winner'
VIDEO: NC State Wolfpack new head basketball coach Kevin Keatts talks about his history of coaching winning programs during an introductory press conference at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, NC, Sunday, March 19, 2017.