UNC Basketball: Can UNC snag Davidson graduate transfer Kellan Grady?

Davidson standout Kellan Grady will hit the NCAA transfer portal this offseason, and the UNC basketball program should have him on the radar.

Davidson Wildcats standout Kellan Grady will be on the move this offseason as a fifth-year graduate transfer. The sharpshooting four-year starter is set to graduate this spring, and will have to continue his liberal arts degree at another school. That’s because Davidson, a college and not a university, doesn’t have graduate programs available for him to advance his education there.

The University of North Carolina, on the other hand, does have liberal arts graduate degree programs. Whether or not the Tar Heels have the specific graduate degree that Grady is looking for, I am uncertain, but the UNC basketball coaching staff should be on the phone with Grady finding that out as soon as possible.

Grady averaged 17.4 points per game and shot 36.6 percent from three-point range in four years with the Wildcats. He shot a career-high 38.2 percent from beyond the arc this season to go along with 4.6 rebounds, 2.4 assists and a positive assist-to-turnover ratio. That, and the fact that Grady has never scored less than 17.1 points per game in any one of his four collegiate seasons, is really all I need to know in terms of his potential fit with the Tar Heels.

And as you can see in the highlight reel below of a Davidson game against George Mason in the recent 2021 Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament, Grady isn’t just a three-point specialist. He can dribble, drive, pull up for floaters in the lane and hit mid-range shots, too.

North Carolina has struggled scoring the basketball over the past two seasons, and much of that has been a lack of consistent three-point shooting. The Tar Heels do have a good young shooter in freshman shooting guard Kerwin Walton, but defenses began to key on him as the season moved on. Walton needs more help on the perimeter, and so do the Tar Heels.

The offensive firepower and shot-making ability that Grady could provide North Carolina with is immeasurable. And the Tar Heels, who just lost freshman big man and former 5-star prospect Walker Kessler to transfer on Monday, should have the available scholarships to go out there and get some help this offseason on the transfer market.

Luring Grady to Chapel Hill should be one of their main objectives.

We don’t have any idea at this time what the Tar Heels have planned, or how many more departures they could be hit with this offseason, but we’ll continue to follow the situation.

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