NC State has hit the transfer market hard this spring and landed a junior college transfer in early May.
Rising redshirt sophomore Atticus Taylor, a 6-foot-7, 205-pound forward who has a 7-2 wingspan, averaged 9.0 points and 7.4 rebounds per game and shot 47.9 percent from the field and 37.0 percent on three-pointers at Southwest Mississippi Community College in Summit, Miss. He is originally from Davenport, Iowa, and grew up in the Quad City area, graduating from Davenport North High.
NC State jumped in when Taylor couldn’t attend Texas A&M or other SEC schools due to a league rule. Taylor had officially visited Virginia Tech when head coach Buzz Williams was in Blacksburg, and then officially visited Texas A&M after Williams was hired there.
Taylor officially visited NC State on May 2-3 in his first trip to Raleigh. However, his step-father, Michael Hadley, is a former standout player at North Carolina Central and has coached in the state. Hadley and his wife, Taylor’s mother, joined him on the official visit.
NC State assistant coach James Johnson was the point man on the recruitment, and he was familiar with Taylor through Southwest Mississippi assistant coach Jeff Diepenbrock, a former student manager at Virginia Tech when Johnson was there.
Oregon State, Nevada, Boston College and Nebraska are some of the colleges that contacted Taylor, who indicatedt he would commit to the Wolfpack if his official visit went well and he received a scholarship offer.
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