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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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LUBBOCK, TX – FEBRUARY 27: Head coach Mike Boynton of the Oklahoma State Cowboys shouts instructions to his team during the second half of the game against the Texas Tech Red Raiders on February 27, 2019 at United Supermarkets Arena in Lubbock, Texas. Texas Tech defeated Oklahoma State 84-80 in overtime. (Photo by John Weast/Getty Images) /

Cade Cunningham

Class of 2020 prospect Cade Cunningham broke the 5-star barrier in late 2017, and hasn’t looked back since. During that time, he had just about every big name college basketball program in the country gunning for him. He racked up offers from Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina, along with a handful of others including last season’s national champion, Virginia, and this year’s team with the No. 1-ranked recruiting class, Memphis.

A little over a month ago, Cunningham released a condensed list of 10 schools, naming Duke, Florida, Kansas, Kentucky, Memphis, North Carolina, Oklahoma State, Texas, Virginia and Washington as his finalists. It was good news for the programs on his list — a virtual who’s who of college hoops — but the good news isn’t going to last that long; at least not for half of the teams on his list.

Shortly after announcing his top-10 list, Cunningham told college basketball insider Adam Zagoria that he plans to cut that number in half, leaving around five schools in the running for his commitment.

"“I want to cut it down to way less than 10, probably around five,” Cunningham said. Ten was a lot for me. I’m probably going to talk with my family some more and get it down to five. That is the goal.”"

Once Cunningham establishes the five schools that he’ll be moving forward with, he’ll more than likely begin taking official visits to each. Given his current timeline, and having no plan to begin taking official visits until the fall, it wouldn’t be a shock to see Cunningham’s recruitment carry on into the spring months.

The 6-foot-6, 215-pound combo guard — a consensus top-10 prospect and No. 2 in the 247Sports Composite — is projected to pick Oklahoma State by 100 percent of experts and analysts on the site. It’s bound to help that Cunningham’s older brother, Cannen, was recently hired by the Cowboys as their newest assistant coach.

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