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Posted Oct 16, 2021
N.C. State's Kevin Keatts on lagging behind Duke, North Carolina and being called a 'perennial bronze medalist in the triangle': "I don't like the bronze medal thing. I can tell you that now because we're not bronze medal to anybody. We're NC State. We don't try to be Duke. We don't try to be Carolina. They have their own programs. And we fight for us." (Fayetteville Observer)

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