UNC basketball program makes cut for a key recruiting target

The North Carolina Tar Heels took a step forward in the recruitment of a prospect they have high on their 2025 big board.

Just two months before four-star shooting guard Braylon Mullins is set to take an official visit, he updated his list of 32 offers down to a top 10, focusing on those schools moving forward.

Mullins took to X (formerly Twitter) to announce he’s down to North Carolina, UConn, Kentucky, Kansas, Indiana, Alabama, Duke, Michigan, Purdue and Tennessee. The list has a mix of blue bloods in the sport plus a Midwest-feel to it as well as his recruitment rolls on.

NEWS: Braylon Mullins, the No. 23 overall prospect in the class of 2025 is down to 10 schools he tells @247Sports pic.twitter.com/2NuNcTAsN4

— Dushawn London (@DushawnLondon1) July 22, 2024

The Indiana native is one of the top players overall in the 2025 class and has become a priority recruit for North Carolina. After watching him for months, the Tar Heels offered back in May and he quickly setup a visit for September to Chapel Hill.

But to win out in this recruitment, UNC will need to beat out a pair of in-state schools with Indiana and Purdue as well as some blue bloods.

The 6-foot-5, 180-pound Mullins is ranked No. 23 nationally, No. 5 shooting guard and No. 3 player in the state of Indiana per the 247Sports recruiting rankings.