4-Star Big Man Manny Bates (6’9″/200) has set 4 official visits, and one of them is to NC State on the weekend of September 8th. He will also be visiting Georgetown next weekend, South Carolina the wend after visiting Raleigh, and Georgia Tech on the weekend of September 22nd.
It will be interesting to see who gets Bates’ final official visit, if he in fact goes on one. The other teams that were on his list of Final 7 schools are Louisville, Xavier and DePaul. Bates has been considered an NC State lean for sometime, but Louisville’s interest raised some eyebrows, but an official visit is yet to be scheduled with the Cardinals.