The North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball team received a big boost to their 2023-2024 fortunes on Tuesday as it was announced that five-star guard Elliot Cadeau will reclassify from the 2024 recruiting class to the 2023 recruiting class.
Cadeau’s decision doesn’t come as a huge surprise – rumors and speculation has been spreading that such a decision could be made for quite some time. Cadeau announced his decision on Twitter.
As pointed out by Tar Heels Wire, he’ll join a Tar Heel’ backcourt that includes R.J. Davis, Seth Trimble, Cormac Ryan, and Simeon Wilcher.
Cadeau is considered by most of the recruiting industry as a five-star prospect with Rivals ranking him the highest of any service, as the eighth-best player in the country.
The 6-foot-2, 170-pound point guard plays for Link Year and is a native of Branson, Missouri. He committed to the Tar Heels over offers from Baylor, Kansas, Maryland, Syracuse, Tennessee, Texas, and Texas Tech among others. He only took a pair of official visits in his recruitment, one to North Carolina and one to Texas Tech.
I would like to announce that I will be joining the team this upcoming fall! #gdtbath pic.twitter.com/vdLKJrPzMq
— Elliot Cadeau (@ElliotCadeau) May 30, 2023
The Tar Heels are coming off a 20-13 season in 2022-2023 which included an 11-9 record in conference play. After starting the season as the No.1 team in the country, the Tar Heels failed to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2009-2010. They’ll enter their third season under head coach Hubert Davis this fall. Despite this past season’s struggles, expect the Tar Heels to once again be among the top-25 teams in the country come next preseason and a Darkhorse title favorite.
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