Good news in the basketball recruiting was delivered to NC State today when point guard, Jeff Teague, announced his plans to play basketball at Wake Forest. Q: How does Wake Forest’s commitment of a Top 75 basketball player translate to “good” news for NC State? A: Because key NC State target, Chris Wright, was also […]
Basketball Recruiting
BBall Recruiting & The Battle of DC
Yesterday we learned that Jamelle McMillan is not going to play basketball at NC State. SFN shared some thoughts and analysis in this entry that we hope that you didn’t miss. Something that we tried to politely dance around was the ‘priority’ that the new NC State staff put on McMillan’s recruitment. We commented that […]
Jamelle McMillan to Sun Devils
Jamelle McMillan, the son of former NC State Basketball player Nate McMillan, announced today that he is planning to spend his college career playing basketball for former NC State Head Coach Herb Sendek at Arizona State University. The whole trip overall was enjoyable, but there was one part of the visit that certainly sealed the […]
Telep’s Top 100
Dave Telep has released the Scout.com’s post-summer Top 100 High School Basketball players. (In order of curent ranking)…I’ll take a JJ Hickson, Chris Wright, Tracy Smith and Jamelle McMillan to go with that Johnny Thomas please. Imagine a core of Courtney Fells, Gavin Grant, Brandon Costner and Ben McCauley supported by an influx of that […]
SFN: What A Year (thusfar)!!!
Excerpt: “In the first seven months of the year, SFN has attracted almost 150,000 different visitors from around the world, generating just under 8 million hits and 2.5 million different page views of unique SFN material. We couldn’t be more proud of the breadth and depth of our growing reach considering that we are just […]
Quick Nat’l BBall Recruiting News
Some quick items of note for some of you junkies out there: * Luckily for all of us, Carolina didn’t add to their ridiculous recruiting haul with the commitment of Kevin Love, the nation’s #2 rated high school player. Love will play for Ben Howland at UCLA…you know…UCLA….whose “bad” fans “ran away” a likeable coach […]
Wolfpack Target Makes Top 10 List
Wolfpack Basketball recruiting target, Tracy Smith recently was ranked as the 9th best performer of the Reebok ABCD Camp as compiled by Jeff Goodman at Fox Sports. You can click here for more on Smith and NC State’s current recruiting of big men.
Davis Inks with Seton Hall
He finally got his wish. After some bumpy roads, former NC State recruit and signee Larry Davis has signed with Bobby Gonzalez’s Seton Hall Pirates. For a little bit of fun, we thought that we would highlight this blog entry that discusses provision #19 in the National Letter of Intent that high school recruits, including […]
Lowe: On Recruiting
“My feeling is that it’s an even playing field. You watch and take the good and utilize it yourself. But, if you want a kid, you have to get in there and battle. You have to work harder than they work. My thing is I’m going to do what I have to do to get […]
New Big Men Arise; McClain Note
In this entry from a couple of weeks ago, we set the table for some recruiting conversations here on SFN. We discussed how, in addition to point guard (see Chris Wright & Jamelle McMillan), that post players are a very important piece of NC State’s 2007 recruiting initiatives. In the piece, we highlighted JJ Hickson […]
