Kevin Keatts heads into the NCAA tournament with two issues he'll have to address, neither of his own making, both inherited and only one he can do anything about.
The first, for him, is merely awkward. Keatts said again last month that N.C. State was “100 percent not involved” in the Federal probe into college basketball, having no idea that the university had received a grand jury subpoena from the investigation a month earlier, news that came out Friday.
There's really nothing Keatts could or can do about that; even under a cloud of confidentiality, if university lawyers didn't feel the need to tip off anyone in the athletic department that they might not, you know, want to be completely unequivocal about their denials, Keatts was inevitably and unfortunately going to be left hung out to dry.