Clemson added another name to its 2028 recruiting board on Sunday, landing an offer from West Charlotte point guard Kaharri Coleman after an unofficial visit.
The Tigers have spent the summer working the AAU circuit and evaluating prospects, and Coleman became the sixth player on Clemson’s 2028 board. Before this week, the program had offered just five prospects, with Kaleb Allen and Hudson Hatch joining the list in the past two months.
Coleman enters the mix with plenty of national attention. He is a consensus four-star prospect and is ranked as high as the No. 35 player overall, the No. 8 point guard and the No. 1 recruit in North Carolina, according to ESPN 300 Rankings.
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His production has matched the hype from the start. Coleman opened his high school career at Hardin University High School in Charlotte and delivered a strong freshman season, appearing in 20 games and averaging 17.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, 4.8 assists and 3.3 steals.
That play carried over to the AAU stage with 15U Team Thad on the Nike EYBL Circuit, where he picked up his first seven Division I offers from Presbyterian, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Charleston, East Carolina, Mississippi State and Texas A&M.
Coleman then made a change ahead of his sophomore year, transferring to West Charlotte after Hardin finished 7-18 overall and 3-11 in conference play. The switch worked out well for both him and the program.
In his first season with West Charlotte, Coleman averaged 18.1 points, 7.8 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 3.1 steals and 1.9 blocks per game while helping lead the Mighty Lions to their first NCHSAA 8A State Championship since 2022.
He also stacked up the accolades: NCHSAA 8A MVP, North Carolina District 9 Player of the Year, Meck Power 6 (7/8A) All-Conference and USA Today All-USA East Second Team.
The offers kept coming during the regular season, with LSU, Ole Miss, Wake Forest, Alabama, NC State and Florida State joining the mix.
Coleman stayed busy this summer as well, starring for Team CP3 16U and helping the squad reach the Peach Jam Finals. In the title game, a 74-65 loss to Team Final, he finished with 14 points, five rebounds and five assists in 23 minutes.
At 6-foot-3, Coleman now holds 20 offers overall, with recent ones from Creighton, Maryland, Kansas and SMU.
No school appears to have taken a clear lead yet, and the recruitment is still in the early stages. Still, Clemson’s unofficial visit gave the Tigers an early foothold.
Other Clemson offers in the 2028 class include four-star shooting guard Trey Edwards, four-star guard/forward Kaleb Allen, three-star guard/forward Brelyn Moses, four-star power forward Braxton Bogard and three-star center Hudson Hatch.
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