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UNC Basketball: Wes Miller earns first four-star commitment

By Blake Cockrum

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 22: Head coach Wes Miller of the UNC-Greensboro Spartans looks on during a college basketball game against the Georgetown Hoyas at the Verizon Center on December 22, 2016 in Washington, DC. The Hoyas won 78-56. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 22: Head coach Wes Miller of the UNC-Greensboro Spartans looks on during a college basketball game against the Georgetown Hoyas at the Verizon Center on December 22, 2016 in Washington, DC. The Hoyas won 78-56. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /
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Former UNC basketball player and first-year Cincinnati Bearcats head coach Wes Miller earned his first four-star commitment.

The Cincinnati basketball program got its first four-star commitment in three recruiting cycles when class of 2022 prospect Daniel Skillings gave a verbal pledge to new Bearcats head coach Wes Miller on Thursday afternoon.

Skillings is a senior shooting guard at Philadelphia Roman Catholic that was holding better than two dozen scholarship offers at the time of his commitment. His extensive offer sheet included programs such as Georgia, Miami, Minnesota, NC State, VCU, Virginia Tech and Xavier. The 6-foot-5, 180-pound Skillings is among the top 100 prospects in the nation, coming in at No. 89 in the latest 247Sports Composite — 10th among players at his position and second in the state of Pennsylvania.

"“The way he sees me in his program was perfect and fits me,” Skillings told 247Sports Eric Bossi. “He sees me running the two guard and I can see the floor and bring the ball up and be a face of Cincinnati and be a big part of a great program that is trying to win a championship.”"

His commitment to the Bearcats gave Miller and his new-look staff the 29th-ranked recruiting class in the country. If the recruiting cycle ended today, it would be their highest ranking since 2013 when five-star small forward Jermaine Lawrence committed to former head coach Mick Cronin — that class was No. 26 in the 247Sports Team Rankings.

With a young, rising head coach that’s trending decidedly upward, in addition to their upcoming move to the Big 12, the Bearcats should be able to bring in similar talent much more frequently in the seasons ahead. And they’ll need it if they’re to compete with the likes of Baylor, Kansas and Houston on a regular basis.

Could Wes Miller and Hubert Davis lock in a series between the Bearcats and Tar Heels in the future? I think it’s certainly possible, and it would be beneficial to both programs. A home-and-home series that would presumably take place each year in the season’s early-goings would give both teams the opportunity to face off with a solid nonconference Power 5 opponent in a hostile environment — and those kind of experiences come in handy.

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We’ll continue to follow Wes Miller and his Bearcats this season, as well as everything on the UNC basketball program.

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