Duke offers five-star UNC basketball recruiting target

Duke has officially offered a five-star UNC basketball recruiting target on Tuesday.

The North Carolina Tar Heels are one of 30 programs to offer five-star power forward Koa Peat in the 2025 class. Hubert Davis and his staff identified Peat as a top target early in the 2025 cycle and are involved in his recruitment as it stands here in August.

But on Tuesday, a North Carolina rival got in the mix.

Jon Scheyer and the Duke Blue Devils entered the race for the five-star recruit by officially offering Peat on Tuesday night. Peat took to Twitter to announce the offer from Duke as another Blue Blood has entered the recruitment and it could change a lot of things.

The 6-foot-8, 210-pound Peat is a Gilbert, Arizona native that is ranked No. 3 nationally, No. 2 power forward, and the No. 1 player in the state of Arizona per the 247Sports rankings.

Other programs that have offered the talented recruit include Texas, Kansas, Michigan State, Michigan, Indiana, Alabama, and Arizona among others.

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