WHEN NC STATE TOOK on Purdue in mid-December of last season, the attention was all on the Boilermakers. They had just moved to No. 1 in the AP poll, and guard Jaden Ivey was in the midst of a sophomore campaign that would ultimately vault him to becoming a top-five pick in the NBA draft.
Ivey didn't disappoint on that Sunday afternoon, finishing with 22 points and seven rebounds in the 82-72 overtime win. But it was his NC State counterpart who caught the eyes of NBA personnel watching.
Terquavion Smith, a borderline top-100 high school prospect who was averaging 11.