Basketball Recruiting
Top-25 2024 SG Paul McNeil is Taking an Official Visit to NC State Next Weekend
NC State offered 4-Star Small Forward Cole Cloer (6’6″175) earlier this week.
247Sports ranks Cloer as the #24 overall player nationally in the 2026 recruiting class, the #10 Small Forward and the #1 player in the state of North Carolina. Cloer plays for Orange High School, which is right down the road, in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
Cloer also holds offers from Wake Forest, Mississippi St, App St, High Point and Iowa.
Last season, Cloer averaged 20.1 points, 7.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.5 steals per game for Orange.
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There’s been quite a bit going on in the world of NC State Men’s Basketball recruiting. Below I’ll summarize quite a bit of it.
4-Star Power Forward Kendre Harrison (6’7″/230) out of Reidsville High School (Reidsville, NC) took in the NC State vs. VMI game on Saturday, and walked away with an offer from the NC State Men’s Basketball coaching staff. Harrison already received an offer from the NC State Football coaching staff back in January.
ESPN ranks Harrison as the #20 overall basketball player nationally in the 2026 recruiting class, the #5 Power Forward and the #1 player in the state of North Carolina. Harrison already holds offers from Wake Forest, FSU and Texas A&M. Harrison is the #5 overall football player nationally in the 2026 class according to 247Sports, and the #1 player in the state of North Carolina. Harrison is a unicorn. He projects to be a 5-star prospect in 2 sports.
Did I mention that Harrison is the nephew of former NC State basketball player C.C. Harrison?
On September 12, NC State offered 4-Star 2025 Point Guard Jordan Lowery (6’1″/175) out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He already holds offers from TCU, SMU, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, St. Louis, Wichita St, ECU and Virginia Tech. Rivals ranks Lowery as the #110 overall player nationally, and ON3 ranks him as the #9 player in the state of North Carolina. Lowery took an unofficial visit to NC State earlier in the month.
Last week, the coaches were in to visit 4-Star 2025 Small Forward AJ White (6’8″/180) out of Charlotte, North Carolina. Rivals ranks White as the #28 overall player nationally in 2025, and he is the consensus #1 player in the state. White holds offers from NC State, South Carolina, Cincy, Texas, Syracuse, Georgia, Texas A&M, Wake Forest, Mississippi St., LSU, FSU, Illinois, Virginia Tech, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgetown, Ohio St. and others.
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While the coaching staff was in to see Lowery, they were also checking out 2024 Center Chol Machot (7’0″). ON3 ranks Machot as a 3-star prospect, and the #14 player in the state of North Carolina.
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Kevin Keatts on ACC teleconference states that Dusan Mahorcic is still out indefinitely and admits, “I’m not even sure if he’s going to return this year.”
What a turnaround! A couple of months ago it was hard to take recruiting too seriously, since we didn’t know if Keatts would be here. Now we’re looking a year ahead. And good players are giving us a look. The off season turnover, both players and assistants, this season will be extremely important. Even best possible case, we only lose Joiner, Mahorcic, and Smith – we still are going to have to replace the two most important players on the team from the portal. They run the offense, and provide points, assists, steals, and are the guys keeping our turnovers… Read more »
This year could really be a springboard to KK becoming a recruiting force. If anyone thinks that KK could have brought in Joiner, Clark, DJ, and Dusan if there was still the threat of a post season ban they are monumental idiots. It does make a big difference and thankfully is behind us. And we get that one scholly back next season which means we can really work the portal hard.
I feel pretty good that KK will find right pieces to add to a really solid core.
KK is out from under the NCAA cloud, and having a good looking team and season. That should attract even more talent. Lets get the snowball rolling!