Southern High School (N.C.) senior and Durham native Jackson Keith has been on the NC State basketball program's wish list for about 18 months. Keith has built a relationship with Kevin Keatts and the rest of the Wolfpack staff, and by all indications, Raleigh's scouts are the favorite, or one of the favorites, to land the four-star wing.
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So it's no surprise that Keith, one of Keatts' first targets this season, is planning a Wolfpack visit: This week, he told Zagsblog's Sam Lance that he has finalized his official visit to Notre Dame starting Oct. 12 and is working to finalize dates for trips to North Carolina State, Tennessee and Louisiana State.
“We'll be working on setting those up right after 'Peach Jam,'” Keith said.
Keith, a 6-foot-6, 220-pound shooter, is ranked 115th overall and sixth among North Carolina prospects in the 247Sports 2025 Composite, but he has received offers from nearly two dozen agencies and has yet to be finalized for his recruiting pool. Still, the On3 Recruiting Prediction Machine projects a 52.8% chance of him ultimately winning out over an NC State basketball suitor.
In January, after Jackson Keith began garnering interest from the University of North Carolina basketball coaching staff, he found himself sitting behind the Tar Heel bench at the Dean E. Smith Center during NC State's road loss in a rivalry game.
The Wolfpack also signed three-star guard Ricardo Grier Jr. from Archbishop Alter High School in Ohio as a 2025 pledge.
