Wake Forest still lacks a headline men’s basketball recruit that would elevate the 2016 class into one of the best 25 in the nation. Seemingly every fan of the team who follows recruiting at all wants that player to be Harry Giles. The six-foot-nine, 230-pound power forward ranked the No. 1 overall recruit by ESPN. The high school senior and has even been dubbed by some as the “Mayor of Winston-Salem.”
Giles has set an official visit with Wake Forest on Sept. 19, and his four other official visits (North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky and Duke) are all scheduled before this year’s early signing period, which begins on Nov.