This is a completely serious question. During the recent college football season, a few star college football players decided to skip playing in bowl games to protect their draft status. Certainly a devastating injury in your final college game could severely hurt those players that have solidifed their draft status. While other players still needing […]
Basketball Recruiting
Markell Johnson signs with State – Gott does it again
Today Mark Gottfried added another highly rated player to the 2016-17 roster by getting Markell Johnson to sign with the Wolfpack. Johnson, who recently reclassified from a 2017 recruit to a 2016 recruit, is a 4 star point guard out of Ohio. He chose the Wolfpack over Ohio State and Texas A&M. Johnson, a 6-foot-1 […]
NC State Basketball Update
In the past ten days the college basketball Gods have been on NC State’s side. Although State fans at times have had their fair share of unfortunate luck in the past with numerous transfers plus players entering the draft during the Mark Gottfried era, Coach Gottfried and the staff have been on a roll of […]
NC State Basketball Scholarship Distribution & Discussion
Obviously, the events of this past week serve to completely change the outlook for NC State Basketball, at least for the 2016-2017 season. Suddenly, NC State has enough talent among our top seven players to compete for an NCAA Tournament berth if we can avoid key injuries throughout the season. But, depth, experience and cohesion […]
Pack Basketball picks up transformational commitment!
Things suddenly get exciting around the NC State Basketball program! The 2016 class is as good of a class as I've evaluated & Omer Yurtseven would be top 10 if he was in the US. Big time post prospect. — Evan Daniels (@EvanDaniels) May 16, 2016 After months of bad news and head-scratching changes and […]
Nation’s Top Point Guard Picks Pack!!
As was discussed on our message forums in real time, Fayetteville native, Dennis Smith, Jr has committed to run with the Pack and become the lead commitment in what may end up being one of the two or three best recruiting classes in NC State basketball history! From ESPN. Dennis Smith Jr., the No. 4 […]
Pack Picks Up Four Star SG/PF Maverick Rowan
NC State basketball picked up a quality player to fill its gap in the backcourt this afternoon: Rowan has been described in various recruiting write-ups as a ‘sharp-shooter’ or a ‘scoring machine.’ Originally classed as a 2016 prospect, Rowan is already a high school graduate. In June, he de-committed from Pitt and said that he was considering […]
MBB: Pack In The Final Lists of Two High Profile 2015 Recruits
Joe Giglio (@jwgiglio) of the Raleigh News & Observer reported today that Mark Gottfried and NC State are in the final mix for two high profile recruits to round out next year’s team: In what has already been an eventful offseason, the Wolfpack is still in the mix for 7-footer Georgios Papagiannis and recently reclassified […]
Basketball Recruiting Update
It’s summer time and NC State basketball recruiting is a hot topic for many Pack fans. The 2015 class could still add two more pieces in Maverick Rowan plus Georgios Papagiannis alongside lonely commit Shaun Kirk. Currently there are eight scholarship players on the roster as depth is a lingering concern for some Wolfpack fans […]
Dorn to State; Gottfried continues winning the transfer game
Included in things that I never thought I would say was the phrase, “Go Torin Dorn!” For those of you too young to remember, the first Torin Dorn was a really good tailback who played for UNC Chapel Hill in the late 1980s before playing for most of the 1990s in NFL for the Raiders […]
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