Dennis Parker schedules visits to Oklahoma State, NC State
Richmond (Va.) John Marshall four-star recruit Dennis Parker has scheduled two additional official visits. The 6-foot-7 small forward tells On3 he will be at Oklahoma State this weekend, September 3rd, followed up by NC State the following weekend, September 9th.
Parker is fresh off an official visit to Georgetown. He’s also visited Georgia Tech, VCU, Virginia Tech, TCU, and Maryland unofficially.
Schools such as Kansas, Rutgers, Illinois, and others have also offered Parker.
Dennis Parker is the No. 86 overall prospect in the 2023 class, according to the On3 Consensus, the average ranking from all four major recruiting media companies. On3’s evaluators are even higher on Parker, ranking him 59th nationally.
In an interview with On3 earlier this year, Parker said “The most I’m hearing from right now is NC State and Oklahoma State.” Since then, the Georgetown Hoyas have really ramped up their recruitment of Parker.
Parker talks NC State, Oklahoma State
In a previous interview, Parker discussed his unofficial trip to see the NC State Wolfpack last September.
“It was a great experience,” Parker said. “It was one of my favorite visits out of them all. I actually got to hang with the team. I went to a football game. Their facilities are nice. The coaches were really welcoming and keep it real with you. It’s really respectable there. Coach Roy Roberson talks to me the most from there.”
Since this interview, Roy Roberson has now moved on to become the head coach at Sanderson High School in Raleigh.
Parker also had some high praise for Oklahoma State.
“It’s another good program,” Parker said of the Cowboys. “They just had the most recent No. 1 draft pick in Cade Cunningham. One of their assistants says he sees me as being another version of him, in some ways of Cade. They started comparing mine and his game together and said our play styles can be alike and I could fit in their type of program and what they run. The assistant that talks to me, Coach Larry Blunt, he’s from the area that I’m from, Virginia.”
What’s Parker looking for in a school?
“I’m looking for a school that allows me to be me, not trying to change me,” he said previously. “I just want a school to feel as comfortable with me as I am with them. I want them to be able to trust me in close games and not have me trapped in a box and running around doing robotic stuff. That’s just not the player I am.”