Wolfpack gets basketball transfer commitment from Louisville forward
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield was Cardinals’ leading rebounder and second-leading scorer this season but transferred after coach Kenny Payne was fired. N.C. State has secured its first transfer commitment from Louisville forward Brandon Huntley-Hatfield for next season. The 6-10, 240-pound forward was the second-leading scorer at Louisville this year, scoring 12.9 points a game and leading the Cardinals with 8.4 rebounds in their 32 games. Since former coach Kenny Payne was fired last month, 11 Louisville players have entered the NCAA transfer portal. Huntley Hatfield's commitment would add another post player to N.C., adding to Mohamed Diarra and Ben Middlebrooks' expected to return next year.
Published : 4 weeks ago by Chip Alexander in Sports
N.C. State, which will start five former transfers Saturday against Purdue in the Final Four, has gotten its first transfer commitment for next season.
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield announced on social media Thursday that he has made a commitment to the Wolfpack. The 6-10, 240-pound forward was the second-leading scorer at Louisville this past season at 12.9 points a game and led the Cardinals with 8.4 rebounds in their 32 games.
With forward D.J. Burns playing his final year at N.C. State, Huntley-Hatfield would give the Pack another post player to complement Mohamed Diarra and Ben Middlebrooks, who both are expected to return next season. He was hosted by Burns on an official visit to the NCSU campus early this week.
Since former coach Kenny Payne was fired last month, 11 Louisville players have entered the NCAA transfer portal.
A former 5-star recruit, Huntley-Hatfield played his freshman season at Tennessee before leaving for Louisville after Payne was hired.
Keatts was asked Thursday how the portal has transformed college basketball.
“It’s a different world,” Keatts said. “It depends on your need. It doesn’t work for everyone. It’s worked for us.”
In more than 40 years at The N&O, Chip Alexander has covered the N.C. State, UNC, Duke and East Carolina beats, and now is in his 15th season on the Carolina Hurricanes beat. Alexander, who has won numerous writing awards at the state and national level, covered the Hurricanes’ move to North Carolina in 1997 and was a part of The N&O’s coverage of the Canes’ 2006 Stanley Cup run.
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