NC State head coach Will Wade met with the media to discuss the 68-66 loss to No. 11 seed Texas in the First Four.
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Coach, what did this group of young men mean to you during this season? What did you learn from it? And how do you go to the next year?
I mean, look, we've got a lot of things we've got to reset for next year. So we didn't have the year that we wanted to have. And, we've got a lot of things that we need to make sure that we're in better shape for moving forward. So we'll get to work on that as soon as the wheels hit the ground tomorrow.
I know you have a lot of seniors here. So what's the mood here? And as you watch them move on and move forward?
They're disappointed. And we'll certainly help them as they move forward. But our focus is going to turn to making sure we get the right guys to come in and help us win in the future.
What did you learn about building a roster out of the portal this season?
Yeah, we're going to be better. We put this together pretty quickly. We didn't do as much, we didn't spend as much time on a couple of things. We just looked at some analytics. The personalities and some of that stuff is very, very important. And we're going to do much more due diligence this year. And we'll have a better mixture of things moving forward.
Speaking to that personnel that you have on the team this year, why do you think this roster struggled with the guard without fouling sometimes?
Well, we don't have very good length. We're just small. And so if you don't have length and you're small, it makes defense tough.
