From Roy Williams perspective, I'm sure he'll be trying to replace the big three, Ray Felton, Rashad McCants and Sean May (and who knows, if Marvin Williams has a great year, he might be gone too) at seasons' end. And even though McCants says he wants to stay for four years, I don't think anyone would fault him for splitting early -- especially when you consider he'll be one of the best 2/3 guards in the country.
So with that in mind, and given the signings of two shooting guards and a power forward, let's take a look at who Williams' has his eye on:
Well it's good to see Williams going after a center, because as it stands, the last real big man in Chapel Hill may have been Brendan Haywood. Either way, I think I overreacted last week when I said that the Tarheels only had signed one player for 2005. As the table shows, they have a commitment (technically these players all verbally committed -- they can't sign until the fall) from three players. Good stuff.
Pos Rank Name Committed Recruiting PF 6 Andray Blatche - X PF 7 Tyler Hansbrough X - PF 8 Richard Hendrix - X SG 9 Martell Webster - X SF 10 C.J. Miles - X C 14 Andrew Bynum - X PF 15 Jon Brockman - X SF 17 Tasmin Mitchell - X SG 27 Lewis Clinch - X PG 29 J.P. Prince - X PF 34 Uche Echefu - X SG 35 Bobby Frasor X - SG 41 Marcus Ginyard X - SG 43 Danny Green - X PF 44 Kevin Rogers - X PF 52 Leo Criswell - X C 72 Cyrus McGowan - X C 76 Ahmad Nivins - X C 92 Alfred Aboya - X C 93 Anthony Sparks - X
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