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Kareem Richardson set to join NC State basketball staff

MattCarterby: Matt Carter04/16/22TheWolfpacker
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Kareem Richardson previously coached at Indiana State before spending this past season at Clemson. (Michael Allio/Getty Images)

The new-look NC State basketball staff appears to be nearing completion. Sources have confirmed to The Wolfpacker that Clemson assistant Kareem Richardson is set to be the second assistant hired by Kevin Keatts. On3’s Clemson Sports has also confirmed the news.

Richardson was one of the names listted on the assistant coach hot board provided by The Wolfpacker, along with Levi Watkins, who has also been hired by Keatts. Watkins is a NC State alum who previously was working as an assistant at Ole Miss.

The two will replace Mike Summey and Roy Roberson after Keatts shook up his staff following the 2021-22 season.

Richardson is a coach that fits both the category of having former head coaching experience plus a working background with Keatts, the latter a common theme among most of Keatts’ hires during his tenure as the NC State basketball coach.

Richardson is also a name that has come up in the past when associated with prior openings on Keatts’ staff at NC State.

Keatts and Richardson worked together as assistant coaches at Louisville in 2012-13, when the Cardinals . Richardson was then hired as the head coach at UMKC, where he went 75-118 over six years. Keatts and Richardson scheduled a game against each other in Keatts’ first year with NC State in 2017, which the Pack won in Reynolds Coliseum, 88-69.

This past year, Richardson was an assistant at Clemson, his lone season on Tigers’ head coach Brad Brownell’s bench. The prior two seasons before that, he serves as an assistant at Indiana State. He has also had prior stints at Wright State, Drake and Xavier.

Richardson started his collegiate playing career at East Carolina before transferring to Evansville.

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