Crazy: Former UNC Basketball Player Wing Agrees to Join a Close Rival…
Dontrez Styles made his transfer portal debut on Monday morning after spending his one and only season at Georgetown. The native of Kinston, North Carolina, who started his collegiate career as a two-year UNC basketball reserve, didn’t take long to choose his third choice for his last year of eligibility.
Styles is bringing his skills to Raleigh to play for Kevin Keatts and NC State, a school that boasts the most recent ACC Final Four appearance and one he visited and considering around this time last year.
Thus, the 6-foot-6, 210-pound wing has committed to play against Hubert Davis’ Tar Heels at least twice next season via their two planned ACC matchups, as several insiders had projected shortly after he entered the portal.
regular season performance. Put another way, he moved from being a mere basketball player who was hardly used at UNC to a 21-year-old emerging veteran who had just joined the Wolfpack, one of the program’s two main rivals, 30 minutes away.
In 2021, Dontrez Styles arrived in Chapel Hill as a four-star prospect but never played more than six minutes per game as a Tar Heel. As a junior at Georgetown this past season, he averaged 12.8 and 5.8 rebounds, playing and starting all 32 games for a Hoyas squad that finished 9-23 overall.
