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An NC State basketball rookie steals a prime-time show
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An NC State basketball rookie steals a prime-time show

An NC State basketball spoiler alert is now officially in order. That is, as long as Trey Parker is with the Wolfpack, it feels certain that the 6-foot-1, 165-pound guard from Fayetteville, N.C., will put up the winner’s bling at the end of every Primetime with the Pack dunk contest.

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“We’ve been waiting for Trey Parker to win this dunk contest for two years,” NC State head men’s basketball coach Kevin Keatts said Friday night in the presence of the media at the team introduction festivities at Reynolds Coliseum.

Keatts dropped his jaw several times while checking out the flight paths of the seemingly helium-filled Parker, who committed to the Raleigh staff in November 2022 as a member of the Wolfpack’s 2023 recruiting class before later reclassifying in 2024 .

Here’s Keatts’ reaction to Parker’s sealing shot over 6-foot-10 Brandon Huntley-Hatfield and 6-foot-9 Ismael Diouf, not to mention Mr. Wuf for added effect:

But it could be argued that Parker’s first-round dunk, despite flying over only one Diouf teammate, served as the most sensational highlight of the night:

Freshman guard Bryce Heard, senior wing Dontrez Styles and senior guard Breon Pass deserve praise just for having the confidence to compete on the same slam-dunk stage as Trey Parker. And there were some creative shakers among them.

However, as Keatts reiterated to the NC State Wolfpack On SI and the rest of the media in attendance at the event, Parker’s victory was a foregone conclusion in his mind.

“I told Dontrez Styles, ‘You have no chance,'” Keatts joked. “He said, ‘I’m going to win, coach.’ And I said, “You have no chance.”

“And I think after (Parker’s) first dunk, he just blew everyone else away in the dunk contest because it was so special.”

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