STATE MAKES CUT FOR MAVERICK ROWAN
Wing forward Maverick Rowan, a 6-7 200-pound 4-star out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida’s Cardinal Gibbons High School, cut his list of schools on June 1. A half dozen finalists remain in the running for Rowan. Three of them are from the ACC. NC State, Louisville and UNC are finalists, along with UCLA, Wisconsin and St. John’s. Rowan tweeted out the list, in no order. Among the ACC schools that didn’t survive the cut were Virginia, Florida State and Pitt, all of whom offered Rowan. He also cut Florida, Iowa State and West Virginia. Rowan is the state’s top 2016 prospect. He considered reclassifying into the class of 2015, but at the end of April, he told USA Today that his efforts toward that goal were “not going well.”
NC STATE ONE OF 4 ACC’s IN PINE’S TOP 5
Linebacker Chase Pine released his top five school choices, and the Wolfpack are in the short-list of finalists. The 6-4, 220-pounder is a 3-star linebacker out of Williamsburg, Virginia’s Lafayette High. The only non-ACC school in Pine’s top five is Georgia, who might be considered the favorite at this point in his recruitment. In addition to State, North Carolina, Pitt and Syracuse are the ACC finalists. Pine visited both NC State and UNC during the schools’ graduation weekends in May. Virginia and Wake Forest were ACC schools that offered scholarships but didn’t survive Pine’s cut. He also eliminated East Carolina and Cal.
JUCO DT ALEXIS JOHNSON SCHEDULES VISIT
NC State will get a visit from class of 2016 junior college defensive tackle Alexis Johnson. The 6-4, 295-pounder went from Mount Zion High in Jonesboro, Georgia to Fort Scott Community College, where 13 of his 46 tackles last season were tackles for loss. Johnson has more than a dozen offers, including Arizona, Kentucky and Kansas. He will visit Tennessee on June 6, NC State a week later, and Louisville the following week. He’s also trying to schedule a trip to see Baylor. He will have two years of eligibility after transferring to a four-year school.