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NC State has not played a basketball game since Dec. 3, and the question is when will it hit the court again? It’s a good question that we potentially will not know the answer to for another few days.
We can say that there is a chance that the Louisville game will be played Dec. 16, but that’s far from a certainty. If it is played, there’s a real likelihood it would be a shorthanded roster. There are reasons to believe it may be as late as Dec. 22 against UNC before the Pack is back on the floor.
There was a thought that there might be further news coming on Friday, but our guess is that the next news we hear is when the Wolfpack is out of its pause.
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There were a couple of noteworthy developments (potentially not positive) in basketball recruiting for the 2022 class last night.
The first is that 6-foot-10 Jai Smith has added an offer from Kansas. If Smith becomes a priority for the Jayhawks, that likely complicates what appeared to be a fast-track recruitment for a commitment to NC State.
We wrote on Nov. 20 in the War Room this:
“A source not associated with NC State told us this week that a player to watch for the Wolfpack is recently offered 6-foot-10, 235-pounder Jai Smith from Cary, N.C., and at Bull City Prep. Rivals.com ranks Smith as the No. 150 prospect. South Carolina is another strong contender for Smith, but the Wolfpack has a good early position here.”
Smith is actually at Word of God Academy now and is a native of New York, but the rest of that information was true then and remains so now.
The second is that UNC has extended an offer to longtime NC State target De’Ante Green from Christ School in Arden, N.C., which is near Asheville, N.C. Green, 6-foot-9, has professed to being an NC State fan growing up, but he has also told at least one interviewer that every prospect in the state of North Carolina dreams of a UNC offer.
We must confess we had one observer who has followed recruiting for a very long time tell us that they wondered if Green would be like Day’ron Sharpe, who rather quickly jumped on a UNC offer when it came. That is always an obstacle for NC State in this state. We will see where this takes the Green recruitment. Green is still a possible reclassification into the 2021 class.
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The news is not all gloomy on the basketball recruiting front, however. We received confirmation via an ESPN report that NC State has been one of the teams most consistently reaching out to Yale grad transfer and co-Ivy League Player of the Year Paul Atkinson.
Atkinson averaged 17.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game as a junior, and he is one of the top available transfers at the moment. The 6-foot-10, 220-pounder makes sense for the Wolfpack. It is losing DJ Funderburk when the season is over, and the Pack has been searching for a fourth post player to join the roster. Although freshmen Ebenezer Dowuona and Jaylon Gibson have reportedly shown promise in practice, their performances in the early games suggest that they are still very much in the developmental stages.
And speaking of likely post players/forwards on next year’s team, four-star signee Ernest Ross from Santa Fe High in Alachua, Fla., is off to a strong start to his senior season. Over the past three games, Ross has scored a combined 80 points in the games. Santa Fe is 4-0.
Please email hclaussen@jfqlending.com or shoot NC State alum Hunter Claussen a private message (@WolfPackMortgageGuy). You can check out their website JFQLending.com as well.
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NC State has not played a basketball game since Dec. 3, and the question is when will it hit the court again? It’s a good question that we potentially will not know the answer to for another few days.
We can say that there is a chance that the Louisville game will be played Dec. 16, but that’s far from a certainty. If it is played, there’s a real likelihood it would be a shorthanded roster. There are reasons to believe it may be as late as Dec. 22 against UNC before the Pack is back on the floor.
There was a thought that there might be further news coming on Friday, but our guess is that the next news we hear is when the Wolfpack is out of its pause.
•••
There were a couple of noteworthy developments (potentially not positive) in basketball recruiting for the 2022 class last night.
The first is that 6-foot-10 Jai Smith has added an offer from Kansas. If Smith becomes a priority for the Jayhawks, that likely complicates what appeared to be a fast-track recruitment for a commitment to NC State.
We wrote on Nov. 20 in the War Room this:
“A source not associated with NC State told us this week that a player to watch for the Wolfpack is recently offered 6-foot-10, 235-pounder Jai Smith from Cary, N.C., and at Bull City Prep. Rivals.com ranks Smith as the No. 150 prospect. South Carolina is another strong contender for Smith, but the Wolfpack has a good early position here.”
Smith is actually at Word of God Academy now and is a native of New York, but the rest of that information was true then and remains so now.
The second is that UNC has extended an offer to longtime NC State target De’Ante Green from Christ School in Arden, N.C., which is near Asheville, N.C. Green, 6-foot-9, has professed to being an NC State fan growing up, but he has also told at least one interviewer that every prospect in the state of North Carolina dreams of a UNC offer.
We must confess we had one observer who has followed recruiting for a very long time tell us that they wondered if Green would be like Day’ron Sharpe, who rather quickly jumped on a UNC offer when it came. That is always an obstacle for NC State in this state. We will see where this takes the Green recruitment. Green is still a possible reclassification into the 2021 class.
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The news is not all gloomy on the basketball recruiting front, however. We received confirmation via an ESPN report that NC State has been one of the teams most consistently reaching out to Yale grad transfer and co-Ivy League Player of the Year Paul Atkinson.
Atkinson averaged 17.6 points and 7.3 rebounds per game as a junior, and he is one of the top available transfers at the moment. The 6-foot-10, 220-pounder makes sense for the Wolfpack. It is losing DJ Funderburk when the season is over, and the Pack has been searching for a fourth post player to join the roster. Although freshmen Ebenezer Dowuona and Jaylon Gibson have reportedly shown promise in practice, their performances in the early games suggest that they are still very much in the developmental stages.
And speaking of likely post players/forwards on next year’s team, four-star signee Ernest Ross from Santa Fe High in Alachua, Fla., is off to a strong start to his senior season. Over the past three games, Ross has scored a combined 80 points in the games. Santa Fe is 4-0.
