N.C. State Super Fan Scotty McCreery Won’t Miss Their Final Four Game Thanks To Assist From Another Country Star

We really do all get by with a little help from our friends.

Scotty McCreery is a lifelong member of the North Carolina State Wolfpack and when the men’s basketball team punched their ticket to the Final Four for the first time since 1983, he was howling with joy, as was his son Avery.

As the “Wine In a Solo Cup” singer watched the last minute of the game, he went live on Instagram, “wearing the same sweatshirt I’ve worn since the ACC Championship.” He took two fingers to his neck and said, “I wish you could feel this heartbeat right now. I’m losing my mind!”

Through the last seconds of the game, McCreery was already wondering if he could make the game in Phoenix Saturday afternoon and honor his commitment to play a show with Thomas Rhett in San Diego later the same night. But, as it turned out, another country star on the lineup for Saturday came through with the ultimate assist.

In a Facebook post on Thursday, McCreery proudly declared, “Wolfpack nation, I’m going to the game.” The American Idol winner is scheduled to perform as part of Boots in the Park, an all day affair in San Diego featuring several big names in country music. Well, thanks to one of the other fellas on the marquee, McCreery will get to the Final Four and be able to hit the stage for his set and maybe “five more minutes.”

He promised to fans in his video that he wouldn’t miss a show for basketball but he really wanted to do both. The schedule had him going on at 6:00 p.m. and game time is at 3:00 p.m. He knew he couldn’t do that. But he saw that Brice was scheduled for 7:35 p.m. so he called with a plea. He told Brice he could totally say no, noting “he deserves that spot, been doing it longer, has all the hits, you name it.” He then asked his friend if he would be willing to switch spots.

“Lee, the class act that he is, he looked at me and said, ‘Scotty, if it’s important to you, it’s important to me, it’s not even an ask.’” He ends the video saying that he loves the Wolfpack and he loves country music and “Saturday I get to do both.”

After winning American Idol in 2011 at the age of 17, despite his newfound fame, he followed in his father’s footsteps and enrolled as a student at N.C. State. As McCreery told Southern Living last fall, he didn’t want to miss out what other kids his age were doing so he found a way to go out on tour with Rascal Flatts and to be a normal college student. “I just wanted to go there and attend class and hang out with all the kids. Do the football games, the basketball games, all the Halloween parties and all that stuff. I feel like I really got the true college experience even though I was already in the music scene.”

Sounds like this weekend McCreery will once again get to do it all. Cheer on his favorite team as a fan and then hit the stage in front of thousands of cheering fans. All thanks to Lee Brice.

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