It is reported that the Pack picks up 6’7″ PF Richard Howell. Second verbal in as many days. Here’s an important nugget from the N&O write-up: J.J. Hickson, who was N.C. State’s leading scorer and rebounder as a freshman last season before leaving for the NBA, also played at Wheeler. “It didn’t hurt that J.J. […]
Basketball Recruiting
Lorenzo Brown Commits!
NC State’s Basketball program received an important commitment from a key member of the high school class of 2009 when Lorenzo Brown, a 6-4 175 pound a combo guard from Alpharetta (GA) Centennial ended months of speculation and provided the Wolfpack a verbal commitment on Sunday. Brown is a consensus Top 25 player in the […]
Harrow’s commitment a result of “great recruiting” by Wolfpack
It is no secret that poor point guard play has plagued NC State’s Basketball Program for years. (Link to BJD’s recent positional analysis) Even if Farnold Degand doesn’t bounce back from his knee injury this year, a fix for this problem may be on the near-term horizon after Ryan Harrow, a rising high school junior […]
Lowe Lands Another ’10 Prospect (Projected Roster Update)
ACCBasketballRecruiting.com – along with everybody else – is that point guard Ryan Harrow has committed to NC State joining consensus Top 20 high school star, CJ Leslie in the class of 2010. (Link here). Harrow – a rising junior from Marietta, Georgia – is a little shorter than his listing of 6’0 and weighs only […]
USC, Tim Floyd Look To Be In Trouble Over OJ Mayo (Updated 9:45am)
In a just world, USC basketball would have something in common with SMU football in the near future. The death penalty. It’s not going to happen, because NCAA bylaws don’t work that way. And besides, they’re not likely to ever again disband a program for a year after the smoking crater it left at SMU. […]
PackPride Posts An Update on PG John Wall
PackPride has posted an update on John Wall. Wall is one of the top 25 players in the nation and is from Raleigh. We got permission to run this quote: While he didn’t name leaders, Wall did mention three schools that are recruiting him hard. “I think [NC] State is really coming after me hard… […]
Report from the Glaxo Invitational Tournament
I attended the first two days of the tournament during which I watched the first eight games of the main tournament. There was some excellent basketball being played by some future stars. You can click on the link below to read more information about the tournament. I am neither a scout nor a recruiting analyst […]
Wednesday BBall & Johnny Thomas Bytes
In the midst of the Wolfpack’s 9th straight loss on the gridiron this weekend, we flippantly made reference to the start of basketball season. With that said, we should probably not ignore some of the relevant roundball issues: * Let me start by thanking 850TheBuzz for highlighting what we all know related to the recent […]
2007 Basketball Recruiting Rankings & Review
Basketball recruiting for this year’s class is complete and first year Head Coach, Sidney Lowe has an awful lot of which to be proud!! Coach Lowe made the best of his opportunity to make a big impact as early as he could last summer. After inheriting a program that was in such disarray that Lee […]
Johnny Thomas’ Athleticism
There have been so many little blurbs in the media regarding high school basketball recruits over the last few weeks that we could have focused the entire attention of this blog on just recruiting nuggets. I ran across the following this weekend in the Charlotte Observer and just couldn’t pass on it. (Link) In four […]
