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UNC Basketball Recruiting: Top 100 recruit calls Tar Heels “dream school”

By Zack Pearson

COLUMBUS, OHIO - MARCH 22: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels looks on as they play against the Iona Gaels during the first half of the game in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Nationwide Arena on March 22, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
COLUMBUS, OHIO - MARCH 22: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels looks on as they play against the Iona Gaels during the first half of the game in the first round of the 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at Nationwide Arena on March 22, 2019 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images) /
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Our latest UNC Basketball recruiting update features a Top 100 player in 2022 calling the Tar Heels a “dream school”

The recruiting board for the UNC Basketball program for the 2022 class is starting to take shape as we hit 2021. Roy Williams and his staff have five active offers out for recruits in the 2022 class and things are starting to heat up.

One prospect that has yet to receive an offer from the Tar Heels is four-star small forward Noah Batchelor. The Florida product is in his junior year at IMG Academy, the same school where UNC target’s Jarace Walker and Jaden Bradley attend.

With a total of 13 offers in his recruitment, Batchelor is drawing significant interest from some big schools. Then 6-foot-6, 185-pound Batchelor is ranked No. 98 overall, No. 22 small forward and No. 15 in the state of Florida per 247 Sports.  But for the Top 100 player, he has a few dream schools in mind that he hopes to land offers from in the future.

Batchelor recently spoke with Tipton Edits about his recruitment and the teams that have offered him so far. But at the end of it, he was asked about his dream schools growing up where he named a pair of Tobacco Road programs:

"Did you have a dream school growing up?  Growing up it was Duke and UNC."

Now, neither Duke or UNC have offered Batchelor at the moment and he did reveal that Memphis, Marquette, Maryland, Georgetown, Georgia, Virginia Tech, Purdue, Pittsburgh and NC State are the schools that contact him the most.

He did say that there have been talks to form a package deal with some of his teammates and close friends including both Bradley and Walker. If that’s the case, then it would be on UNC to offer Batchelor after evaluating him in the future.

While UNC hasn’t offered yet, it’s interesting to hear him call the Tar Heels one of his dream schools growing up as well as a potential package deal. Things are quiet on the Tar Heels’ front right now but that could change down the line.

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