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UNC Basketball: Tar Heels updated class ranking with Armando Bacot

By Zack Pearson

CHAPEL HILL, NC - NOVEMBER 22: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels smiles during their game against the Tennessee State Tigers at Dean Smith Center on November 22, 2011 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
CHAPEL HILL, NC - NOVEMBER 22: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels smiles during their game against the Tennessee State Tigers at Dean Smith Center on November 22, 2011 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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The 2019 UNC Basketball recruiting class has jumped in the 247 Sports composite rankings thanks to a commitment from Armando Bacot

By now you’ve probably already heard the news that five-star center Armando Bacot has verbally committed to North Carolina. The verbal gives Roy Williams a big recruit in his 2019 class and the first five-star front court player since Tony Bradley in 2015.

Williams was able to land Bacot by putting the full-court press on him. The head coach and his staff watched Bacot numerous times during the open evaluation periods and visited his as well.

The verbal from Bacot is the second for the Tar Heels in the 2019 class with point guard Jeremiah Francis being the first back in August of 2017. Since then, it’s been quiet for the Tar Heels until now when Bacot joined the class.

By doing so, it gives UNC a five-star and a four-star recruit and means they also moved up in the class rankings.

Following the commitment, 247 Sports updated its composite rankings and the Tar Heels climbed from No. 36 to No. 8 in the rankings. Their system uses a special formula to compute the rankings and they update after each verbal commitment.

The Tar Heels have a score of 48.79 with Bacot and Francis being signed. Bacot is at a score of  0.9908, while Francis is at 0.9462.

USC leads the list with four total commitments including two five-star players. Kentucky is No. 2 followed by No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 Auburn and No. 5 Ohio State.

With the addition of Bacot, UNC currently has the No. 1 recruiting class in the Atlantic Coast Conference and is the only school in the ACC with a five-star recruit signed.

It’s still very early in the recruiting period with plenty more commitments coming this Fall and the rankings will change.

UNC is still in the running for several big recruits including Cole Anthony, Vernon Carey and Matthew Hurt, all in the Top 10 in the rankings. It’s very likely UNC will stay in the Top 10 if they can pickup at least one more five-star.

Expect Bacot to sign in the early signing period this November.

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