UNC Basketball: Tar Heels looking to add two more to 2020 class?

Roy Williams, UNC basketball program looking to add two more players to highly touted 2020 recruiting class?

Roy Williams and the North Carolina Tar Heels have already secured their best recruiting class in better than 10 years, but they’re not done yet. According to at least one recruiting analyst, the Tar Heels are looking to add two more pieces to their top-5 2020 class.

Still on the Tar Heels’ recruiting board for next year are a handful of talented prospects, including top-10 wing Ziaire Williams and 5-star shooting guard Bryce Thompson. Also in the mix are 4-star prospects Puff Johnson and Kerwin Walton. Most of the aforementioned prospects are beginning to wrap up their recruitments, though Williams seems to be in no rush to conclude the process and announce a decision.

Rivals’ Corey Evans recently talked about the Tar Heels’ recruiting efforts as it relates to these players, and what they’d add to a squad that’s already loaded with incoming talent next season.

"It looks as if North Carolina will want to add two more players before they move on to the 2021 class,” Evans writes. “. . . Bryce Thompson and Kerwin Walton could potentially be fighting over the same scholarship. Walton just visited Chapel Hill over the weekend and will head to Miami and Cal the next two weeks before deciding. Thompson is done with his visits, and while UNC has remained strong in its pursuit, Kansas and Oklahoma may be difficult to beat.On the wing, Ziaire Williams does not seem to be in much of a rush to make his college decision. North Carolina is the lone program not on the West Coast that is involved with him. Stanford and USC are among his other top suitors. Puff Johnson fits the mold of what the Tar Heels are searching for, too, and his visit to UNC this weekend could steer him away from Arizona. The Wildcats are the leader, but Johnson has always been intrigued by following in his brother’s footsteps and playing for Roy Williams.Thompson and Williams would be the dream scenario for how the Heels fill out their 2020 class, but Walton and Johnson would also do."

With commitments from any two of the aforementioned players, North Carolina would solidify a spot among the top-5 classes next year, and put together one of the best recruiting classes its had during the Roy Williams era.

With pledges from Williams and Thompson, however, the Tar Heels would unquestionably take over the No. 1 spot in next year’s rankings. It would also beat out the Tar Heels’ 2006 class that featured Brandan Wright, Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington as the best since Williams returned to Chapel Hill in 2003.

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