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UNC Basketball: Tar Heels’ 2020 recruiting class could look a lot like this

By Blake Cockrum

CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA - NOVEMBER 16: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels watches his team play against the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles during the first half of their game at the Dean Smith Center on November 16, 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA - NOVEMBER 16: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels watches his team play against the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles during the first half of their game at the Dean Smith Center on November 16, 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images) /
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COLUMBUS, OHIO – MARCH 24: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels sits in the bench during their game against the Washington Huskies in the Second Round of the NCAA Basketball Tournament at Nationwide Arena on March 24, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /

The UNC basketball program is looking to build on its successful 2019 recruiting class with another solid haul in the class of 2020

After signing just one consensus 5-star prospect in a three-year span from 2015 to 2017, the UNC basketball program has nabbed two such players in each of the last two recruiting cycles.

In 2018, it was uber-athletic wing Nassir Little and Coby White, a 6-foot-5-inch point guard with uncanny speed and quickness, and a penchant for scoring. White challenged a 20-year-old freshman scoring record, and was named second team All-ACC. Little’s time at North Carolina was seen by many as a disappointment, particularity after he earned MVP honors in both the McDonald’s All-American Game and the Jordan Brand Classic. He still averaged almost 10 points per game on 48 percent shooting, though, and scored 19 or more points on five occasions.

They were followed by 2019’s No. 1 point guard, Cole Anthony, and top-25 big man Armando Bacot, marking the first time since 2010-11 that the Tar Heels signed multiple 5-star players in back-to-back recruiting cycles. In both cases, North Carolina finished with a top-15 recruiting class — No. 13 in 2018 and No. 9 in 2019 — something they hadn’t done in consecutive seasons since 2013-14.

Now, with the NCAA cloud that was once overhead far behind them, and two successful recruiting cycles in the books, Roy Williams and the North Carolina coaching staff are working hard to maintain — and hopefully surpass — that level of success with the class of 2020.

Keeping It Heel has compiled a list of every 2020 basketball player that the UNC basketball program has recruited to this point. We’ve analyzed each player’s recruitment, and predicted where we think they’ll end up. Please note that some, however, are so new to the UNC recruiting board that a prediction at this point would be nothing more than a guess, so we’ve left those as ‘undecided’.

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