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North Carolina State guard Rodney Purvis drives past Temple guard T.J. DiLeo in the first half of a second-round game at the NCAA college basketball tournament, Friday, March 22, 2013, in Dayton, Ohio.

At the NBA draft combine in Chicago this week, Blazers general manager Neil Olshey will be looking for the next Damian Lillard, or maybe lining up a summer trade.

For the "Freshman Impact" series, Insider's college basketball and recruiting experts will be teaming up to examine how 15 of the nation's best recruiting classes will fit in with their teams in the 2013-14 season.

Note: This is the ninth in a series of stories about the teams Syracuse will face in the Orange's first year in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Northwestern will reportedly head to North Carolina - sup, Chris Collins! - as they play the Wolfpack in Raleigh in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

Collins, who left the Duke bench after 13 years to take over at Northwestern, will bring his Wildcats to PNC Arena Dec.

Coach Mark Gottfried said Wednesday that Lennard Freeman signed with the Wolfpack.

We live in a reactionary society, especially when it comes to sports thanks to the immediacy of the 24-hour news cycle and the proliferation of social media and talk radio.

With the deadline to enter the NBA Draft having come and gone at midnight on Sunday night - and with the last-minute decisions made by Adreian Payne, Andre Roberson and Isaiah Austin - we now have a full list of all the meaningful college hoopers that made the decision to jump to the league early.

With one final season remaining in the ACC, Maryland found out its fate on Tuesday afternoon when the ACC portion of the men's basketball schedule was released.

The Wolfpack, which closed the books on the 2012-13 basketball season on Thursday night at the team's annual banquet, will have to replace five of its top six scorers from a 24-11, NCAA tournament team.

The 6-foot-4, 194-pound guard averaged 20.3 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.2 assists last season at New Mexico Junior College .