The UNC basketball program will take on No. 4 UCLA in the Sweet 16 in Philadelphia on Friday with a trip to the Elite 8 on the line. But before that game, the players spoke to the media on Thursday about their run and some other interesting things.
Among the notable quotes out there is junior forward Armando Bacot who gave a little bit of a recruiting pitch to UNC targets in future classes.
On a question asked about Hubert Davis and the value of coming to a school to be coached by someone who played in the NBA, Bacot had a simple answer that recruits should listen to via Inside Carolina:
“I would just say for all recruits, I don’t know why they wouldn’t look at the way we play and not want to go here or consider going here. We’ve got Coach Sullivan, too, who was in the NBA for 20 years and then Coach Lebo who coached in the NBA. A lot of things we do best defensively, icing the ball screens, the offense kind of free form and shooting a lot of threes, spacing the floor out. It’s a lot of opportunities to show those type of things that NBA teams like. It’s just great and fun to be able to do, and yeah, we enjoy it.”
Bacot picked North Carolina over a handful of schools, including Duke, and since he arrived on campus in 2019, he’s improved each year and is now being honored for his big junior year.
Davis and the Tar Heels do have an impressive 2022 class coming in and are still looking to add to the 2023 class which has five-star guard Simeon Wilcher committed. Their top target, G.G. Jackson, is reportedly down to UNC, Duke and South Carolina.
But Bacot is right. This system favors the players and the pace is a fun one to play in. And we have a feeling someone like Jackson would fit in perfectly…
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