((HT: WRAL-TV))
N.C. State's new women's basketball coach Kellie Harper plans to start recruiting immediately.
“House-hunting – that’s on the back-burner right now,” Harper said during a news conference Thursday in which she was introduced to the Wolfpack community
Harper won three national championships during her playing days, as a guard at the University of Tennessee from 1996-98. In the past five seasons, Harper has guided Western Carolina to a pair of NCAA tournaments, two Southern Conference titles and a 97-65 record.
Harper will replace legendary coach Kay Yow, who died in January.
Yow, who was synonymous with the Wolfpack women, had pushed to have Stephanie Glance, her top assistant, named to the position. Instead, athletics director Lee Fowler launched the search that landed Harper.
“Our beloved Kay Yow built a program with rich tradition and I believe that Kellie Harper is the person to build on that legacy and move our program into the future,” Fowler said in a release.
Here's the entire press conference...
Stephanie Glance is understandably disappointed...
WRAL's Dane Huffman addresses the first Harper presser...
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