Texas Tech basketball offers 2019 3-star PG Clarence Nadolny

The Texas Tech basketball program continues its efforts to build the 2019 recruiting class by offering 3-star point guard Clarence Nadolny.

Though the Texas Tech basketball program has already built one of the top 2019 recruiting classes in the nation, Chris Beard continues to pursue potential building blocks. The latest target to receive an offer from the Red Raiders is point guard Clarence Nadolny.

The 6-foot-4, 180-pound native of France played for Our Savior New American School in New York, City as a junior and Scotland Performance Institute in Pennsylvania this season and is quickly becoming one of the top available point guards in the nation. Rated a 3-star prospect by Rivals.com (though he is not rated at all by 247Sports.com), Nadolny holds offers from West Virginia, TCU, Iowa State, Arkansas and Georgetown. 247Sports is reporting that he took unofficial visits to Georgetown and Rutgers last fall and has was visited by an assistant coach from TCU and Iowa State head coach Steve Prhom in February.

Texas Tech is clearly in the market for a true point guard in this class and the offer to Nadolny is likely a direct result on missing out on 4-star PG Damion Baugh who committed to his hometown Memphis Tigers over Tech and TCU last week. And it is easy to see why point guard would be a position of emphasis for Chris Beard this offseason.

If there is a hole in the current roster, it is the lack of a point guard, as was pointed out by Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski after his team beat the Red Raiders back in December. And with the loss of Matt Mooney and the expected departure of Jarrett Culver to the NBA this summer, there will be a need for Beard to find two more players capable of initiating the offense and bringing the ball up the court.

Certainly, Davide Moretti is a capable of filling that role but given the fact that he is one of the best 3-point shooters in the Big 12, it would be preferential for him to play off the ball so that Tech ran get him open by running him off of screens. Likewise, freshman Kyler Edwards is more of a shooting guard who looks to score first rather than create opportunities for others.

Perhaps 2019 signee Kevin McCullar Jr., who has been on campus since January, can be a facilitator next year. He s listed as a “comb-guard” by most recruiting services so he could be an option to handle quite a bit of the point guard duties next year. And most expect Beard to pursue a grad transfer guard this summer, much like he did Matt Mooney last offseason.

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Beard has already had a good week on the recruiting trail. Monday, 4-star forward Terrence Shannon Jr. verbally committed to the Red Raiders giving the program its third 4-star 2019 recruit. Tech now has the No. 14 class in the nation according to both 247Sports and Rivals. What’s more, Rivals rates Tech’s class the best in the Big 12 while 247Sports has it as the No. 2 class in the conference. And that is despite the fact that 6-foot-9 Russian forward Andrei Savrasov is unranked due to the fact that he did not play high school basketball in the United States.

Should Nadolny become a Red Raider, he would continue the program’s trend of landing top international players. Already with foreign-born players on the roster such as Davide Moretti (Italy), Brandone Francis (Dominican Republic) and Josh Mballa (France), Naldony could join Savrasov next year to continue to add international flavor to the Tech roster.

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National Signing Day for college basketball prospects is April 1st so Nadolny will likely be ramping up his decision-making process in the coming weeks. And hopefully another deep Texas Tech run in March could come at just the right time to help sway his decision.

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