MBB Visits Duke Saturday Night

Saturday, February 4

Durham, N.C.

6:30 PM

North Carolina

Duke

Leaky Black and Caleb Love

Photo by: ANTHONY SORBELLINI

February 3, 2023 | Men's Basketball

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GAME 23: AT DUKE
• Carolina and Duke renew their rivalry for the 259th time when the Tar Heels travel to Durham Saturday evening for a 6:30 p.m. tip at Cameron Indoor Stadium on ESPN.
• The Tar Heels are 15-7 overall, 7-4 in the ACC. Carolina is tied for sixth place in the ACC with Duke, which is 16-6 overall.
• UNC is 2-4 on the road this season (which does not include the win over Portland in Portland, Ore., which was officially a neutral-site game).
• Carolina had its four-game winning streak ended on Wednesday with a 65-64 home loss to Pittsburgh. The Tar Heels have won 10 of their last 13 games.
• Duke has won two straight, routing Georgia Tech by 43 points in Atlanta and edging Wake Forest, 75-73, on Tuesday in Durham.
• Carolina has held seven consecutive opponents under 70 points and has won five of those seven games.
• The Tar Heels limited Jamarius Burton and Blake Hinson, who combined for 47 points in Pitt's win over UNC in late December, to 7 of 25 from the floor (1 of 9 from three) and 21 points, but an off-shooting night proved too much to overcome in Wednesday's loss to Pittsburgh. Carolina shot 34.8% from the floor (30.% in the first half), 18.5% from three (1 of 14 in the second half) and 59.1% from the free throw line (nine misses in a one-point defeat).
• Caleb Love tied a season-high with four three-pointers and led UNC with 22 points, but the Tar Heels lost for only the second time in 21 occasions in his career when Love notched 20 or more points.

UNC-DUKE ALL-TIME
• Carolina is 143-115 against the Blue Devils.
• The Tar Heels have won two straight and four of the last five games vs. Duke.
• Carolina is 50-55 on the road vs. Duke, including 39-46 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Tar Heels' 39 wins are the most by an opponent in Cameron Indoor Stadium (NC State is second with 23).
• Carolina has won two in a row at Cameron – 91-87 in 2021 and 94-81 in 2022.
• Carolina won two of the three times it played Duke last season. Each team won on the other's home court, and the Tar Heels prevailed, 81-77, in New Orleans in the national semifinals. It was the first time UNC and Duke ever played in the NCAA Tournament and the second time they had played in a post-season game other than a conference tournament (also the 1971 NIT semifinal in New York).
• More details on last season's games in the next note.
• Carolina and Duke are No. 1 and 2 all-time in the ACC in wins, ACC regular-season wins, ACC Tournament wins, NCAA Tournament wins, Final Fours and NCAA championships.
• Carolina has won the ACC regular-season title 32 times. The Blue Devils are second with 20.
• Carolina and Duke have played in the Final Four a combined 27 times in the last 42 seasons.
• The Tar Heels and Blue Devils have combined to win 10 national championships in the previous 42 seasons – five by Carolina and five by Duke.
• This is only the third UNC-Duke game in the last 159 in which neither team is ranked in the Associated Press poll. At least one of the teams was ranked in 153 consecutive games from 3/4/1960 to 3/7/2020. That streak came to an end in 2021 when neither team was in the AP Top 25 in both games.
• Duke was ranked in the top 10 in all three UNC games last season.
• Hubert Davis is 2-1 as head coach against Duke. Davis was 6-5 as a player against the Blue Devils, including 2-1 in the postseason (the 1989, 1991 and 1992 ACC Tournament finals).

LAST SEASON'S GAMES
UNC 81, Duke 77, April 2, 2022, in New Orleans
• It was the first time UNC and Duke ever played in the NCAA Tournament.
• The game included 12 ties and 18 lead changes (13 in the second half), both the most in a UNC game last season.
• Over the final 15:42, the margin for either team exceeded three points – a single possession – for all of 104 seconds.
• Carolina scored nine different times in the second half either to break a tie or reverse the lead, including field goals or free throws by all five Tar Heel starters.
• Caleb Love led UNC with 28 points. It was the third time in five games vs. Duke he scored 20 or more points. He made two of his first nine field goal attempts, then made nine of his last 11. Love tied his career high with 11 field goals (also vs. UCLA in the Sweet 16).
• Love's three with 24.8 seconds to play gave UNC a 78-74 lead.
• Armando Bacot had 11 points and 21 rebounds for his 30th double-double, which broke Tim Duncan's single-season ACC record (Duncan had 29 in 1996-97).
• Bacot's 21 rebounds were the most in the Final Four since Kansas's Nick Collison had 21 vs. Syracuse in the 2003 championship game.
• Bacot's 21 rebounds were the most by a Tar Heel in 21 national semifinal games (previous was 17 by Pete Brennan in triple overtime vs. Michigan State in 1957).
• RJ Davis, who was a game-high plus 10, scored 14 of his 18 points in the first half. His free throws with 1:01 to play gave UNC the lead for good at 75-74.
• Leaky Black made two three-pointers, his first multi-three game since Feb. 28, and grabbed a career-high six offensive rebounds.
• Brady Manek made three 3FGs in the second half, all of which gave the Tar Heels the lead.
• It was Carolina's third win as an unranked team over an AP top-10 ranked team last season, all in the last eight games (No. 4 Duke in Durham, No. 4 Baylor in the NCAA second round and No. 9 Duke in the Final Four).
• Duke committed only four turnovers, fewest by an opponent against UNC in any NCAA Tournament game.

UNC 94, Duke 81, March 5, 2022, in Durham
• It was Carolina's seventh win in 10 ACC road games last season.
• It was the first time four Tar Heels ever scored 20 or more points in a game (Bacot 23, Love 22, Davis 21 and Manek 20).
• It was the first time unranked UNC beat a top-5 Duke team in Durham since 1990.
• Carolina's 13-point win marked the second time in UNC history the Tar Heels were beaten at home by 20-plus points then defeated the same opponent on its home court by double digits in the same season (also Louisville in 2019).
• Carolina shot 59.4% from the floor and scored 55 points in the second half (no other team scored more than 44 in a half or shot higher than 58.6% in a half against Duke all year).
• Bacot was 10 for 11 from the floor and tied the second-best field goal performamce by a Tar Heel vs. Duke. Larry Miller set the mark making 13 of 14 (.929) in the 1967 ACC Tournament. Rasheed Wallace was also 10 for 11 (.909) in 1995.
• Bacot was a game-high plus 24, including plus 15 in the second half.
• All five starters played the entire second half.
• Manek made five 3FGs and had his third double-double as a Tar Heel with 20 and 11.
• Davis tied his career high with nine field goals.
• Love became the first Tar Heel to score 20 or more in consecutive games at Duke since Jason Capel in 2001 and 2002.
• Love had five assists and went 12 for 12 from the free throw line, which tied the third-best FT shooting game by an opponent in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
• Carolina committed a season-low five turnovers.
• In the first half, Duke shot 58.1% from the floor, while UNC shot 38.9%.
• In the second half, UNC shot 59.4% and the Blue Devils shot 42.1%.
• Carolina won back-to-back games at Duke for the first time since winning four in a row from 2006-09.

Duke 87, UNC 67, Feb. 5, 2022, in Chapel Hill
• It was Carolina's first home loss in 13 games last season and ended UNC's 14-game win streak at the Smith Center.
• The 20-point margin equaled UNC's fifth-worst loss ever in the Smith Center.
• Manek led UNC with 21 points. He made 6 of 10 three-pointers. The six threes tied the most ever by a Tar Heel vs. Duke.
• Manek scored 15 of Carolina's 28 points in the first half.
• Carolina shot 31.3% from the floor in the first half and 51.9% in the second.
• Duke shot 57.6% from the floor, the highest percentage by an opponent last season.
• Bacot's double-figure rebound streak came to an end at 13 games. He had 12 points and five rebounds.
• Carolina scored a season-low two second-chance points.
• Duke out-rebounded Carolina, 40-24. The 24 rebounds were a season low.
• Duke freshman AJ Griffin scored a game-high 27 points.

CAREER STATS VS. DUKE
• Armando Bacot is averaging 15.0 points and 9.1 rebounds in seven games. Made 38 of 70 from the floor (.543) and 29 of 46 free throws (.630). Game highs include 23 points in the 2022 win at Cameron, eight offensive and 21 total rebounds in the Final Four and three blocks on 2/28/20. He has two double-doubles vs. the Blue Devils.
• Leaky Black is averaging 6.7 points, 5.3 rebounds and 3.6 assists in seven games. Highs of 12 points at Duke on 2/6/21, nine rebounds in the Final Four and nine assists on 2/8/20.
• RJ Davis is averaging 11.0 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists in five games. Highs of 21 points at Duke last season, seven rebounds in New Orleans and four assists in both wins last season. Is 20 for 48 from the floor (.417), 4 for 14 from three (.286) and 11 of 14 from the line (.786). Has 12 assists and six turnovers.
• Caleb Love is averaging 20.2 points and 4.8 assists in five games. He's made 33 of 75 from the floor (.440), 12 of 33 threes (.364) and 23 of 25 free throws (.920). Highs of 28 points in the Final Four and seven assists in both games as a freshman in 2020-21. Has scored 20 or more three times – 25 as a freshman at Duke, 22 as a sophomore at Duke and 28 in the national semifinal in New Orleans.

MID-SEASON ACCOLADES
• Armando Bacot was one of 20 players named earlier this week to the Wooden Award's Late-Season list.
• Bacot and Caleb Love were named to the USBWA's mid-season list for the Oscar Robertson (NPOY) Trophy.
• Bacot was named second-team mid-season All-America by Mike DeCourcy of the Sporting News and third-team All-America by CBSSports.com's Jon Rothstein.
• Fifth-year senior Leaky Black was named to the mid-season watch list for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year award.

BACOT: NOW 6-TIME ACC PLAYER OF THE WEEK
• Bacot has earned three ACC Player-of-the-Week awards this season.
• Bacot has won ACC Player of the Week six times in his career (all in the last two seasons), which equals Phil Ford for the third most all-time by a Tar Heel.
• Antawn Jamison (ACC-record 12) and Tyler Hansbrough (11) are the only Tar Heels to have won the award more than Bacot.
• Most recently, Bacot won the awards for his play vs. Boston College and NC State, when he totaled 43 points and 34 rebounds (11 offensive) vs. Boston College and NC State.
• He had 20 points, 16 rebounds vs. the Eagles and 23 points, 18 boards vs. the Wolfpack. They were his 11th and 12th double-doubles of the season and second and third straight games with at least 15 rebounds. In the win over NC State, he set UNC all-time records for rebounds (1,221) and double-doubles (61). The 23-point, 18-rebound game vs. NC State was his 20th career game with at least 20 points and 10 rebounds. It also equaled the most rebounds by a Tar Heel ever against the Pack, a record set by Billy Cunningham in 1965. Bacot first tied it 2/26/22, the last time these teams met in Raleigh.
• In December, Bacot earned ACC Player-of-the-Week honors for his performances against The Citadel and Ohio State. He also won Player-of-the-Week honors for the Wake Forest and Notre Dame games in early January.

RANKINGS
• Carolina is tied for No. 30 in the AP poll, 35th in KenPom and 43rd in the NCAA's NET.
• The Tar Heels are second in the ACC in scoring (78.6 ppg), rebounding (39.3) and rebound margin (+5.2). Carolina is sixth in the league in scoring margin (+6.8).
• Last season, UNC was No. 1 in the ACC and No. 3 in the country in rebound margin (plus 8.5). This season, UNC is No. 2 in the conference and 36th nationally.
• The Tar Heels are 20th in the country in rebounds per game.
• The Tar Heels are ninth in the ACC in field goal percentage and eighth in field goal percentage defense.
• Carolina is 11th in the ACC in three-pointers per game (6.7), 13th in three-point shooting (.311) and eighth in three-point percentage defense (.337).
• Carolina is the only team with three players in the top 11 in the ACC in scoring. Armando Bacot is third, Caleb Love is seventh and RJ Davis is 11th.
• Bacot is second in the ACC in scoring (17.7) and leads the ACC in rebounding (11.4), offensive boards (4.4) and double-doubles (13).
• Bacot and Clemson's Hunter Tyson are the only players in the ACC in the top 10 in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage.
• Nationally, Bacot is fourth in offensive rebounding, rebounds and double-doubles.
• Bacot's 23 rebounds vs. James Madison in November equal the third most in a game this season in the NCAA. Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe had 24 vs. Georgia and Indiana's Trayce Jackson-Davis had 24 vs. Northwestern.
• Davis leads the ACC in free throw shooting at 86.2%.
• Davis's 14 for 14 from the line against NC State is the fourth best in a game this season in the NCAA.

KENPOM NOTES
• The Tar Heels are 29th in offensive efficiency (114.9 points per 100 possessions) and 51st in defensive efficiency (98.2).
• Carolina is fourth in the ACC in offensive efficiency behind Miami, which is 10th nationally; Virginia, which is 20th; and Wake Forest (27th).
• The Tar Heels have committed the 18th-fewest turnovers per possession, but are 323rd in forcing turnovers.
• The Tar Heels are 83rd in two-point field goal percentage and 304th in three-point percentage.
• Armando Bacot is 17th in the country in offensive rebound percentage, but as a team the Tar Heels are 143rd. Bacot has 92 offensive rebounds, 63 more than Leaky Black, who is second with 29. Pete Nance and Puff Johnson are tied for third with 16.
• Bacot has 39% of Carolina's offensive rebounds. Last season he grabbed 36% of UNC's offensive boards.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS (WINS & LOSSES)
• Carolina is averaging 81.9 points in its 15 wins and 71.3 (10.6 fewer) per game in the seven losses. The opponents are averaging 7.1 more points in their wins over the Tar Heels.
• Carolina is shooting 47.0% from the floor in the wins and 40.4% in its losses.
• The Tar Heels make 7.3 threes at 33.6% in the wins, but only 5.4 threes at 25.5% in the losses.
• Carolina's best three-point percentage in a loss this season was 33.3% at Virginia (8 for 24).
• Carolina has a rebounding edge of 7.3 in the wins and less than one per game in the losses.
• The Tar Heels are plus 48 in assists/turnovers in the wins and minus 18 in the losses.
• The opponents are plus 22 assist/turnovers in UNC's losses and have 14 more turnovers than assists in Carolina's 15 wins.
• UNC has outscored the opponents, 240-174, in points off turnovers in the Tar Heels' 15 wins, including 24-10 vs. Charleston, 27-12 vs. Ohio State, 32-8 vs. Wake Forest, 23-8 at Louisville and 20-14 at Syracuse.
• The opponents have outscored the Tar Heels, 108-62, in points off turnovers in the seven losses. That includes a 15-point advantage by Iowa State, a seven-point edge by Alabama, a 17-4 advantage at Indiana, a 12-6 margin at Pittsburgh and 19-10 advantage by Virginia.
• Carolina is 8-1 in games when it has scored more points off turnovers than its opponents.
• The Tar Heels are 5-5 when the opponents score more points off turnovers (and 2-1 when even).
• The opponents have scored at least 40 paint points four times in the UNC losses, including 40 by Alabama, 50 by Indiana, 42 by Virginia Tech and 42 at Pittsburgh.
• In the 15 wins, four starters have more assists than turnovers (and Armando Bacot has only one more turnover than assists); in the seven losses, only Leaky Black has more assists than turnovers, but Black has only seven assists in those seven games.
• Carolina has scored 80 or more points 11 times. The Tar Heels are 10-1 in those games, losing 103-101 in four overtimes vs. Alabama (scored 77 in the regulation).
• The Tar Heels have averaged 66.3 points in the other six losses with a high of 74 at Pittsburgh.
• Bacot is averaging 19.3 points in the wins and 13.7 in the losses. However, Bacot only played 1:18 in the loss at Virginia and did not play at Virginia Tech (he is averaging 16.4 in the other five losses).
• Caleb Love is shooting 39.8% from the floor, including 27.7% from three, and has 49 assists/34 turnovers in the wins; in the losses, Love is shooting 36.2% from the floor (30.2% from three) and has 17 assists/18 turnovers in the losses.
• RJ Davis is averaging 16.6 points, is shooting 47.6% from the floor (42.5% from three) and has 56 assists/26 tiurnovers in the wins; in the losses, he is averaging 14.7 points, is shooting 36.7% from the floor (22.9% from three) and has 15 assists/18 turnovers.
• Pete Nance is shooting 48.4% from the floor (40.5% from three) in the wins and 42.9% from the floor (24.0% from three) in the losses. Nance is 33 for 39 (.846) from the free throw line in the wins and 15 for 22 in the losses (.682).

MISCELLANEOUS
• KenPom ranks Carolina's strength of schedule 35th overall and 17th in non-conference play when the Tar Heels went 8-3.
• Carolina's seven losses were against team with a combined record of 95-35 through 2/2/23 (Alabama 19-3, Virginia 17-3, Pittsburgh 16-7, Iowa State 15-6, Indiana 15-7 and Virginia Tech 13-9).
• Carolina is 12-2 this season and 43-11 over the last three seasons when RJ Davis has more assists than turnovers.
• Davis scored a game-high 26 points vs. NC State. The Tar Heels are 5-0 this season and unbeaten in 10 games in Davis's career when he scores 20 or more points.
• Davis leads the ACC in free throw percentage at .862. The last Tar Heel to lead the ACC in free throw percentage was Joel Berry II in 2017-18 (.893). Berry was the 11th Tar Heel to lead the league.
• Armando Bacot leads Carolina in scoring (career-high 17.7 ppg), rebounding (11.4 rpg), offensive rebounding (career-high 4.4), blocks (23) and field goal percentage (.566). Last season, he became the first Tar Heel ever to lead UNC in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage and blocked shots in consecutive seasons, and he is on pace to accomplish that again this season.
• Carolina is 12-2 this season and 33-9 in his career when Bacot attempts more than six free throws in a game. The Tar Heels are 3-4 this season and 42-37 over the last four seasons when he attempts six or fewer.
• Bacot (career-high 17.7 ppg), Caleb Love (career-high 16.5) and Davis (career-high 16.0) and are on pace to become the first Tar Heel trio to average 16 points in a season since Walter Davis, Phil Ford and Mitch Kupchak did that in 1974-75 and 1975-76.

• Love made at least one three-pointer in the first 17 games this season and 45 consecutive dating back to December 2021, breaking the previous UNC record of 41 games set by Marcus Paige.
• Bacot and Davis lead the Tar Heels in plus/minus at plus 157 and plus 155, respectively.
• Bacot has led UNC in plus/minus eight times. Pete Nance is second in games led in plus/minus with four.
• D'Marco Dunn led the Tar Heels in plus/minus at Louisville with a plus 25 (plus 18 in the first half). Dunn became the fifth Tar Heel non-starter to lead the team in plus/minus in a game this season (Puff Johnson vs. Alabama, Tyler Nickel at Virginia Tech, Seth Trimble vs. Wake Forest, Jalen Washington at Virginia and Dunn at Louisville).
• Dunn leads the non-starters in plus/minus at +56.
• Puff Johnson, who has not played in the last three games due to a sore right knee, had a positive plus/minus in each of his last seven games, the longest current streak on the team.

• Dunn came off the bench at Louisville to tie for the team lead in scoring with a career-high 14 points. He also set career highs that day in minutes (25:56), points, field goals (5), three-pointers (2), offensive rebounds (2), rebounds (5), steals (2) and plus/minus (+25) and tied his career highs in free throws (2), assists (1), turnovers (1) and blocks (1)
• Carolina's bench has outscored the opponents five times this season (16-12 in the loss at Virginia Tech, 42-18 vs. The Citadel, 10-9 in the loss at Pittsburgh, 22-12 vs. Notre Dame and 26-10 at Louisville).
• Freshman Tyler Nickel's 16 points vs. The Citadel were his season high and the most by a Tar Heel non-starter this season. They were the most by a Tar Heel non-starter (in a non-Senior Day game) since Puff Johnson had 16 in the win at NC State last February.
• The Tar Heel bench has scored just 17 points in the last four games (seven vs. Boston College, one vs. NC State, five at Syracuse and four vs. Pittsburgh). In the three games prior to the win over BC, UNC's bench scored at least 20 in all three contests and averaged 22.7 points vs. Notre Dame, Virginia and Louisville.

• Carolina's 103-101 loss to Alabama was just the second four-overtime game in UNC history and the first since Carolina beat Tulane, 113-106, in New Orleans on Feb. 14, 1976.
• Carolina had not played even a triple overtime game since 2003-04 (a 119-114 loss to Wake Forest).
• It was only the third time UNC lost in 211 games when scoring 100 points.
• Caleb Love played 57:24 in Carolina's four-overtime loss to Alabama. That is the second-highest minutes played in a game by a Tar Heel. Phil Ford played 58 minutes in a four-OT win at Tulane in 1976.
• Love was named to the PKI All-Tournament team after scoring a career-high 34 points against the Tide.

• The Nov. 21 poll was the 113th time UNC was ranked No. 1 in an AP poll, fourth most in NCAA college basketball history.
• This was the 10th time the AP poll ranked the Tar Heels No. 1 to begin a season (1977-78, 1981-82, 1983-84, 1986-87, 1993-94, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2011-12, 2015-16 and 2022-23).
• UNC's 10 preseason No. 1 rankings are the most all-time, breaking a tie with Duke. UCLA is third with eight, Kentucky is fourth with six and Arizona, Indiana, Kansas and Michigan are tied with three.

IN THE RECORD BOOK
• Carolina has an NCAA-record 81 1,000-point scorers, including Caleb Love, Armando Bacot and RJ Davis, who scored his 1,000th point against Wake Forest on 1/4/23.
• Bacot is 22nd all-time in scoring at Carolina, most recently passing Jawad Williams, Justin Jackson, Eric Montross and Kenny Smith when he scored 23 points in the win over NC State on January 21.
• Davis scored 27 points to pass the 1,000-point mark against Wake Forest in his 83rd game, the 38th-fewest games needed by a Tar Heel to score 1,000 points.
• Raymond Felton and Ty Lawson both scored their 1,000th points in their 84th games.
• Bacot scored his 1,000th in his 82nd game, while Love scored his 1,000th point in his 73rd game, the fewest games needed since Harrison Barnes hit the mark in his sophomore season in 2011-12 in his 61st game as a Tar Heel.
• Bacot has 10 or more rebounds in a UNC-record 69 games. He passed Billy Cunningham, who had 61 in three seasons from 1962-65.
• RJ Davis is fifth and Caleb Love is 14th all-time at UNC in free throw percentage.
• Love made at least one three-pointer in a UNC-record 45 consecutive games, a streak that ended at Louisville on January 14. He broke Marcus Paige's previous mark of 41.
• Last season, Love made 40 consecutive free throws, the second-longest streak in school history (one off the record by Jeff Lebo).
• Love has attempted the sixth-most three-pointers in UNC history (540) and made the 14th most (171).
• Love is one of nine Tar Heels with 1,200 points, 300 assists and 150 three-pointers (also Joel Berry II, Jason Capel, Raymond Felton, Rick Fox, Justin Jackson, Jeff Lebo, Marcus Paige and Shammond Williams).
• Love is three steals from 100. Berry, Capel, Felton, Fox, Lebo and Paige also had 100 steals.
• Leaky Black has played in 144 games in four-plus seasons. He is on pace to break Deon Thompson's school record for games played (152).
• Black is one of two current Tar Heels to start at least 100 career games. Bacot has made 120 starts and Black has 119.
• Black, a fifth-year graduate student, recently surpassed 700 career points, 600 rebounds and 300 assists.

LATE-GAME HEROICS
• Pete Nance's clutch shot vs. Ohio State marked the first time a Tar Heel made a field goal with 0:00 on the clock (released with 0.2 to play) to send a game to overtime since Pete Chilcutt (off an assist from Jeff Lebo) vs. Syracuse on 11/21/1987, in Springfield, Mass. Remarkably, it also happened in UNC's previous overtime game, when Lebo fed Scott Williams for a jump hook at the buzzer that sent the 1987 ACC semifinal against Virginia to a second OT in Landover, Md.
• Carolina trailed Ohio State by 10 with 6:44 to play. It was the first time UNC trailed by double digits with less than 10:00 to play and won since beating Louisville, 72-71, on 1/10/2015.
• Ohio State led by 14 twice in the first half. That was the largest deficit in a Tar Heel victory since 2/27/21, when UNC overcame a 16-point deficit to beat Florida State, 78-70, in the Smith Center.

NOVEMBER SIGNEES
• Carolina signed two players to National Letters of Intent in November 2022.
• Zayden High, a 6-10 forward from San Antonio, Texas. High attends AZ Compass Prep in Chandler, Ariz., where he plays for Coach Ed Gipson.
• Simeon Wilcher, a 6-5 guard from Plainfield, N.J. Wilcher plays for Coach Dave Boff at Roselle Catholic High School in Roselle, N.J.