When Omer Yurtseven committed to NC State there were a lot of people who predicted he’d spend just one year in Raleigh before making the jump to the NBA. That type of thinking wasn’t all that crazy seeing as he dominated every level the European leagues and seemed to have all the necessary polish to make it in the states.
Things, however, didn’t go that way. In his first year, he got off to a bumpy start with a 7 game suspension. When he returned, he came back to a team that was all about Dennis Smith Jr.