The North Carolina Tar Heels are just under two months away from the start of basketball season.
Some things are going to look different, most notably UNC not having longtime starter Armando Bacot at the five. A pair of North Carolina’s projected starters, Cade Tyson and Ven-Allen Lubin, came from the transfer portal.
The Tar Heels also return reigning ACC Player of the Year RJ Davis and starting guard Elliot Cadeau, who should form the country’s best backcourt. Joining them in the backcourt will be 5-star freshman Ian Jackson, who was also a McDonalds All-American.
The above three Tar Heels highlight preseason picks for Dick Vitale, more commonly known as Dickie V,
Davis is one of Dickie V’s PTPers (prime-time players), a phrase he commonly integrates into broacasts, while Davis, Cadeau and Jackson are amongst his floor generals.
Davis is joined by some elite company and a projected freshman breakout star on the PTPers list: Duke’s Cooper Flagg, Kansas’ Hunter Dickinson and AJ Storr, Alabama’s Mark Sears and Houston’s LJ Cryer.
Davis, Cadeau and Jackson are joined on Dickie V’s Floor Generals list by Alabama’s Sears, Chris Youngblood and Latrell Wrightsell, Kansas’ Storr and Dajuan Harris Jr., Purdue’s Braden Smith and Fletcher Loyer, Gonzaga’s Ryan Nembhard, Khalif Battle and Nolan Hickman, plus Houston’s Cryer, Emanuel Sharp and Milos Uzan.
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