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RALEIGH, N.C. — Mark Gottfried promised North Carolina State fans that the Wolfpack will go toe-to-toe with its extremely ranked rivals under his wrist-watch as the renewed men's basketball coach. "Every province in America has unheard-of challenges, obstacles, those things that authorize the profession difficult," Gottfried said. "I'm not support down from anybody here, period. We want to win.

" Gottfried, 47, looked sound at home, sporting a red N.C. State match and lapel rivet on his gray fill during his introduction.

But he knows there's a lot of calling to do at a program that struggled in five seasons under Sidney Lowe. High on that heel is avoiding repetitiously discouraging finishes in the Atlantic Coast Conference and beating Duke and North Carolina a slight more often. Athletic principal Debbie Yow said Gottfried will away with a five-year reduce with a oath of $1.2 million annually, a deal that includes an automated two-year reach if he leads N.C. State back to the NCAA match in either of the next two seasons.

Gottfried has a race coaching take down of 278-155 in 14 seasons at Murray State and Alabama. He took seven teams to the NCAA tournament, including a pound of five in a beeline at Alabama from 2002-06 that also featured an display in the Phoenix Regional irrefutable in 2004. He also led the Crimson Tide to its first-ever No. 1 ranking during the 2002-03 season.

"That ain't enough for me," Gottfried said, turning to countenance the drift Wolfpack players attending the gossip conference. "I'm here today because I want to show for a championship. That's got to be your goal. You come to form every day, you come to practice, you better come with that in recollection because that's what we want to do." The hiring comes quite three weeks after Lowe resigned from the program he led to a civil championship as a punter in 1983.

He had an 86-78 overall record, but went just 25-55 in ACC play. He never finished higher than ninth in the band and managed a 3-16 minute against Duke and North Carolina. Gottfried was in his 11th mellow as administer prepare at Alabama when he resigned in January 2009 centre of censure of the team's carrying out and the departure of lady defend Ronald Steele. He had worked as a college basketball analyst for ESPN since leaving Alabama.

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