Assessing NC State’s roster building after first month of transfer activity leads to top-10 portal class

When Justin Gainey was officially introduced as NC State’s next head coach, he made it clear that his team was going to be built on two key traits: Character and toughness. Those qualities were the driving force for the Wolfpack’s roster-building process over the past month as the coaching staff navigated the transfer portal. The former, however, seemed to take the lead in the evaluation process that Gainey envisioned when he arrived in Raleigh at the helm of his beloved alma mater’s program....