We may be in the middle of the dogdays of summer, but NC State’s 2014 basketball recruiting work hasn’t taken a summer vacation. According to an ESPN report, NC State landed a commitment from former West Virginia shooting guard, Terry Henderson on Tuesday.
Henderson played his high school basketball at Raleigh’s Neuse Christian Academy. At 6’4″ and 200 pounds, he averaged almost twelve points a game last year as a sophomore while continuing to exemplify the back of some impressive three point shooting – 37.6% from the arc last season after posting a mark north of 40% in conference games as a freshman. He was a listed as a three-star recruit and considered the likes of Maryland, Cincinnati, Richmond, Rutgers, UCLA and Wake Forest during this transfer.
The two things that Henderson does NOT do for the Wolfpack program is (1) bring needed immediate depth at the point guard position for next season, and (2) help Coach Gottfried with extreme ‘lumpiness’ in our scholarship spacing. Henderson must sit out next season and will have to years of eligibility remaining. After sitting out next season, one could see Henderson becoming Mark Gottfried’s next “Scott Wood / Ralston Turner” position. This means that the Wolfpack still will only have ten scholarship players eligible next season and looks very thin at the point guard position.
Current 2014-2015 NC State Basketball Program Configuration
Senior Class
(1) Ralston Turner (Wing)
(2) Desmond Lee (2G)
Junior Class
(3) Trevor Lacy (2G/PG)
Sophomore Class
(4) Anthony Barber (PG)
(5) Kyle Washington (4F/5C)
(6) BeeJay Anya (4F/5C)
(7) Lennard Freeman (4F)
(8) Terry Henderson (wing) – transfer from West Va ineligible in 2014-2015
2014 Commits
(9) Caleb Martin (wing)
(10) Cody Martin (wing)
(11) Abdul Malik Abu (PF)
2015 Commits
(12) Open
(13) Open
(1) Ralston Turner scholarship
(2) Desmond Lee scholarship
