Just two days after getting fired as NC State basketball head coach following his eighth season at the helm, Kevin Keatts was in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night to attend the championship game of the CAA Tournament,

Exactly 345 days ago, NC State was celebrating its first ACC tournament championship in decades, the precursor to a miraculous Final Four run. That postseason surge earned Kevin Keatts a contract extension and an automatic raise, seemingly setting him up for future success in Raleigh.