UNC Basketball: 2020 Tar Heels commit receiving high praise

Class of 2020 UNC basketball commit receiving high praise from national recruiting analyst

Roy Williams and the University of North Carolina men’s basketball program have signed one of their best recruiting classes during the Hall-of-Fame head coach’s 16-year tenure with the Tar Heels.

UNC’s 2020 class consists of three 5-star players and two 4-stars, and ranks third in the nation behind only Kentucky and Duke. It’s the highest-ranked class that Williams has put together in better than a decade, and signals to the rest of college basketball that the Tar Heels of old are back on the recruiting trail.

All three of the Tar Heels’ 5-star prospects in the 2020 class have been widely lauded, each for their own specific talents and skill sets. But 6-foot-10, 246-pound Day’Ron Sharpe continues to receive praise from some of the nation’s top recruiting analysts. In a recent piece, Rivals’ Eric Bossi called Sharpe a ‘total beast’, and named him among an elite list of standouts at the Thanksgiving Hoopfest in Duncanville, Texas.

"“This guy is big, he’s mean, he’s physical, he has skill and he’s also in possession of a pair of hands that belong in the realm of guys like Kevin Love and Jared Sullinger who have had the strongest hands we’ve seen in the prep ranks,” Bossi writes. “If he gets so much as a fingertip or two on the ball, it’s going to be his.More importantly, Sharpe continued a trend of improving each time he hits the floor since he first hit the national scene during the spring of his sophomore year. He should be a stone cold lock for all of the major post season All-Star games and looks like a legitimate instant impact/one and done type big man.”"

Sharpe will join a tremendous cast of players in the UNC front court in the fall of 2020; one that likely includes a senior Garrison Brooks and a sophomore Armando Bacot. Brooks and Bacot will almost undoubtedly be the starters, but Sharpe and fellow 2020 signee Walker Kessler will be a couple of the first players off the bench for the Tar Heels.

It’ll likely be the deepest, most talented front court that Roy Williams has had at North Carolina, or any other time in his career, for that matter.

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