Former NC State center D.J. Burns has apparently lost 45 pounds. My guess is that would put him in the 290s.

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Sophomore KD Smith brings competitive fire​

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Junior DE Mykah Newton impressed with NC State​

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Cornerback Jayden Shipps favoring three colleges​

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I tell them to go to hell.

This is not a joke, but real money has been spent to have ESPN's Joe Lunardi come to Amelia Island in Florida for multiple days on trying to improve the ACC's chances at getting more teams into the NCAA Tournament.

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NC State has hired UMass assistant coach Brett Nelson to replace Joel Justus. Nelson was a McDonald's All-American coming out of St. Alban's High in St. Alban's, W.Va., and picked Florida and coach Billy Donovan. He went on to have a solid college career and eventually got into coaching.

Nelson has been at Marshall (2007-10), Arkansas (2010-2011), Drake (2011-13), Ball State (2013-14), Marquette (2014-19), Holy Cross (2019-23) and UMass. At Holy Cross, he was the head coach, where he went 27-84 overall and 21-49 in the Patriot League.

He worked for former Billy Donovan assistant coaches Donnie Jones and John Pelphrey at Marshall and Arkansas respectively. The first NC State connection is that he worked under coach Mark Phelps at Drake, with Phelps a former NCSU assistant coach under Herb Sendek (same family tree as Donovan).

At Ball State, he worked for Billy Taylor, who is now the head coach at Elon. He worked with Phelps and Justin Gainey at various times at Marquette under coach Steve Wojciechowski. The most recent assistant coach stop was at UMass under Frank Martin.

Highfill stranded a runner on 2nd but took nearly 30 pitches to do it. 0-0 mid 1st.

I am splitting attention between the Pack and the Canes. If anyone else can add updates, please do.

The NIL money at Louisville is flowing. They have everything but a starting power forward and are now working on their bench.

Center: James Scott (College of Charleston) and Aly Khalifa (BYU).

Power forward: TBD

Small forward: J'Vonne Hadley (Colorado) and Aboubacar Traore (Long Beach State). Maybe Traore plays small ball power forward.

Shooting guard: Terrence Edwards (James Madison) and Reyne Smith (College of Charleston).

Point guard: Chucky Hepburn (Wisconsin) and Koren Johnson (Washington), with Johnson a combo.

Everyone but Johnson played in the NCAA Tournament.