NC State Basketball
Men’s Basketball: NC State 73 Campbell 67: BOX SCORE
NC State Men’s Basketball improved to 2-0, beating Campbell 73-67. Below is the Box Score.
Sophomore Terquavion Smith scored 17 of his 19 points in the 1st half, had a team high 6 assists, and also chipped in 3 steals. He only took 4 shots in the 2nd half, missing all of them.
Senior Point Guard Jarkel Joiner literally won the game for the Pack in the second half. He scored 14 of his 17 points in the second half when NC State was desperate to find offense. He also had 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals.
Senior Forward Jack Clark was the only other player that scored in double digits, scoring 10 points on a poor 2 of 7 shooting. He did have a team high 9 rebounds and a team high 4 steals.
The Wolfpack’s defense was poor this evening, allowing the Camels to shoot 47.2%, and an unacceptable 55.6% from beyond the arc.
The Wolfpack will be back in action next Tuesday in PNC Arena against FIU at 9pm.
Bowling Green Transfer Guard Marcus Hill (6’4″/185) has committed to NC State!
Hill took an Official Visit to NC State this past weekend.
This past season, Hill averaged 20.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game for the Falcons. He earned 1st Team All-MAC honors. Even though he was only at Bowling Green one season, he had one of the best seasons in school history, scoring 698 points, which ranks 5th all-time in program history for a single season.
For his first two years of collegiate ball, Hill played for Southern Union State College (JUCO) in Alabama. In 2022-23, Hill earned 3rd Team NJCAA All-American honors, and ranked as the #32 overall Junior College prospect.
247Sports ranks Hill as a 4-Star Transfer Prospect, and the #81 overall player in the Transfer Portal, and the #11 Shooting Guard.
Even though 247Sports and ON3 consider Hill a Shooting Guard, NC State is recruiting him as a Point Guard.
Hill is the 4th player to transfer to NC State this offseason, joining Louisville’s Brandon Huntley-Hatfield & Mike James, and Georgetown’s Dontrez Styles.
With the addition of Hill, NC State now has 1 scholarship remaining for next season.
NC State Forward Mohamed Diarra will not be returning to NC State for his final season of eligibility. Rather, he will give 100% of his focus to pursuing his professional career.
Diarra is declaring for the NBA Draft, and will explore that possibility as far as it goes, but the likelihood of him playing professionally in his home country of France are high.
Diarra was a significant player for NC State all season long, averaging 6.3 points and 7.8 rebounds (team high), but his impact in March was tremendous, recording 10+ rebounds in 7 of the Wolfpack’s 10 postseason games, and five of those performances were double-doubles.
Wolfpack fans will always remember the grit and mental toughness that Diarra put on display in the NCAA Tournament, playing game-after-game while fasting for Ramadan.
The Wolfpack’s frontcourt just got a little bit thinner. In the past two weeks, NC State has lost Diarra and Ernest Ross. Ben Middlebrooks is returning, and Brandon Huntley-Hatfield transferred in from Louisville. Dontrez Styles transferred in from Georgetown, and while he is more of a Small Forward, in certain lineups, he could play the Small 4 position. With all that being said, I fully expect NC State to try to find another post player in the Transfer Portal with Diarra’s exodus now official.
With Diarra not returning in 2024, NC State now has 2 scholarships available for next season.
Louisville Transfer Guard Mike James (6’5″/200) has announced his commitment to NC State!
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This past year, James averaged 12.6 points per game (3rd on the team) and 5 rebounds. He’s extremely physical and aggressive, taking 47% of his field goal attempts at the rim (making 46%). As a result, he draws a lot of fouls, ranking 10th in the ACC in Fouls Drawn, and 4th in Free Throw Rate. James made opponents pay this year when they put him on the line, making 81.8% from the charity stripe, which ranked 15th in the ACC.
James shot the ball better as a Redshirt Freshman, than he did this past season. His Effective Field Goal Percentage in 2022-23 was 55.8%, which ranked 19th in the ACC, and his True Shooting Percentage of 59.6% ranked 14th.
News broke about James entering the Transfer Portal back on March 25th, and NC State was quick to reach out. Kevin Keatts and his staff recruited the former 4-star prospect out of high school heavily, but he ultimately chose the Cardinals.
After redshirting his first year in Louisville due to torn achilles, James has been a starter for the Cardinals the past two years.
He does have the ability to knock down a three, making 34.8% for his career.
James has 2 years of eligibility remaining. With James’ commitment, NC State currently has 1 scholarship available for next season.
Bowling Green Transfer Guard Marcus Hill (6’4″/185) confirmed with me that he is currently on a visit at NC State.
Hill averaged 20.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game for the Falcons this season. He earned 1st Team All-MAC honors. Even though he was only at Bowling Green one season, he had one of the best seasons in school history, scoring 698 points, which ranks 5th all-time in program history for a single season.
For his first two years of collegiate ball, Hill played for Southern Union State College (JUCO) in Alabama. In 2022-23, Hill earned 3rd Team NJCAA All-American honors, and ranked as the #32 overall Junior College prospect.
247Sports ranks Hill as a 4-Star Transfer Prospect, and the #78 overall player in the Transfer Portal, and the #11 Shooting Guard.
According to a source, the NC State Coaching Staff is extremely high on Hill, and they are recruiting him as a Point Guard.
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Clark has really impressed. 10 pts 7 rbds 4 steals and only 2 fouls is phenomenal. Joiner sealed the deal last night. Terq played half a game superbly. But Clark was the blue collar guy.
This team needs the learn/remember how to get the ball inside.
That is a rough offense to prepare for, glad we (barely) survived it. Credit for adjusting and cutting down on the back door cuts in the second half. If they hadn’t shot 55% from 3PT, it wouldn’t has been close. But credit to them for getting the ball to the open shooter, and to those shooters for hitting them. Can’t believe our 3PT shooting went so cold. We had some good looks. Pass played better, solid 12 mins. Ross got 9 mins in a tough game, good to see. They’ll keep improving. Gantt was dressed, but probably wasn’t ready for… Read more »
Our bigs struggled against that princeton type offense, kept getting pulled too far out. Glad to get any kind of win this early when upsets are common. 3pt shooting was 0’fer except for Smith, ouch.
I guess now we know what Jarkel can do for us.
I listened to Jarkel’s radio post game interview, I really like that kid, seems super mature, humble, and ‘gets it’.
I think most bigs will struggle in a Princeton style offense for the reason you pointed out. I liked Jarkel as well. We had some nasty ish scoring droughts.
Not sure what happened to the Community board, prolly too much spam, but glad to hear from you now.
Yep, seemed like they shut it down shortly after another of those foreign language posts hit. Sorry to see it go, but that platform was never going to be a long term solution.
I did like the fact that those on it (it it’s earlier iteration) generally were a little less ‘we lost a game, burn the place down’ than you see elsewhere.