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Heel Tough Blog: UNC Lands Top-20 Transfer Guard For First Portal Commitment
Tipton Edits After a busy weekend contacting potential transfer portal targets, Michael Malone and the Tar Heels have landed their first transfer, in the form of Neokilis Avdalas, a 6-9 guard, who played professionally in Greece, before arriving in college basketball, playing for Mike Young and the Virginia Tech Hokies, In his lone season in Blacksburg, Avdalas averaged 12.1 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 4.6 assists, while shooting 39% from the field, and 31% from behind the arc.

Joshua Marlow
Apr 131 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Secures In-Home Visit With Top Transfer Guard
Ersin's NBA Draft Newsletter On a day filled with a lot of news around the Carolina Basketball program, in regards to the current and future roster, the biggest news came down late on Saturday night, as Inside Carolina was able to confirm that head coach Michael Malone is slated to meet with Wake Forest transfer, Juke Harris. This comes after Harris traveled to meet with Michigan on Saturday, the same day that the Wolverines celebrated their 2026 NCAA Tournament title. In add

Joshua Marlow
Apr 112 min read


Heel Tough Blog: 2026 Recruit Maximo Adams to Stay Committed to UNC
247Sports After Michael Malone was hired as the 20th head coach of Carolina Basketball, one of the questions that surrounded the hire was whether or not the 2026 recruiting class, consisting of Dylan Mingo, Maximo Adams, and Malloy Smith, would remain committed to the UNC program after the firing of Hubert Davis. Malone and his staff, which still isn’t finalized, got their first answer early on Saturday morning. Maximo Adams, who is a 6-7 small forward and is ranked as the N

Joshua Marlow
Apr 112 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC a Reported Finalist For Top CG Transfer
Yahoo Sports The transfer portal news and rumors continue to run rampant across the college basketball landscape, as teams are working around the clock to build their respective rosters for the 2026-27 season. Yesterday, Inside Carolina reported that there were four new players that UNC was having contact with in the transfer portal, all of whom are backcourt players. This morning, we learned that UNC is a finalist for a forward from an ACC school, that we haven’t even heard

Joshua Marlow
Apr 112 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Jaydon Young to Return to UNC For Senior Season
Sports Illustrated After a day spent making contact with a handful of guards in the transfer portal, Michael Malone secured the return of one Tar Heel who entered the transfer portal earlier in the week, in veteran Jaydon Young. Young, who arrived in Chapel Hill last year after two seasons with Virginia Tech, averaged just 1.8 points, 0.9 rebounds, and 0.4 assists across 31 games last year for North Carolina, which featured four starts in the middle of the season. He shot 30%

Joshua Marlow
Apr 101 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Tar Heels Contact Four Backcourt Transfers
The transfer portal opened on Tuesday at midnight, and since then, we’ve seen over 1,900 players enter, all seeking either a new basketball home for 2026-27 or using the portal as an avenue to make more money at their current school. Starting on Sunday, North Carolina has lost seven players to the portal, which was expected after Hubert Davis was fired roughly three weeks ago. Since Michael Malone was hired on Monday, and introduced on Tuesday, his staff, which is still being

Joshua Marlow
Apr 103 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Expressing Interest in SEC Transfer
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The transfer portal opened for business Tuesday at midnight, and since then, there have been over 1,600 college basketball players to enter their names, looking for a new place to call home for the 2026-27 season. On Monday, North Carolina hired Michael Malone as the 20th head coach in program history, after firing Hubert Davis after five years on the UNC bench. Malone signed his contract and was officially introduced on Tuesday night in the Smit

Joshua Marlow
Apr 92 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Adds Legacy Commit to 2026 Class
Tipton Edits On Friday, after learning that Caleb Wilson was officially out for the remainder of the 2025-26 season, the Carolina Basketball program received some positive recruiting news, as they landed the commitment of 2026 three-star combo guard, Malloy Smith, the son of former UNC standout, Kenny “The Jet” Smith. Mally stands at 6-5, and is a product of Mater Dei High School, a school known for producing top-flight QB prospects, including Bryce Young, the QB of the Carol

Joshua Marlow
Mar 82 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Lands 5-Star Combo Guard
On3 Sports While the Tar Heels will look to earn a big win later tonight on the road at NC State, they secured a win for the future, landing five-star combo guard Dylan Mingo after a long recruiting battle with Penn State, Baylor, Washington, and others. Mingo is ranked as the No. 8 player in the 2026 recruiting class and is considered to be the No. 3 combo-guard and the No. 1 player from the state of New York. He chose Carolina after initially delaying his commitment a few w

Joshua Marlow
Feb 172 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Lands First Commitment of 2026 Class, in Four-Star Forward
Tipton Edits It’s been a long time coming, but after a long wait, Hubert Davis has landed his first commitment in the 2026 recruiting class, in the form of Maximo Adams, a 6-7 forward from California. Adams committed to North Carolina over fellow blue blood Kentucky and Texas, giving Hubert Davis a significant win on the recruiting trail. According to 247Sports, Adams is ranked as the No. 11 player in the 2026 recruiting class and is the No. 5 player from the state of Califor

Joshua Marlow
Nov 14, 20252 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Tar Heels Land Luka Bogavac
SC Derby The Tar Heels have been searching furiously for someone to fill the hole left behind by Drake Powell and on Saturday morning...

Anthony Pagnotta
May 31, 20251 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Kendre Harrison Announces Commitment Date
Kendre Harrison is one of the biggest recruiting targets in Tar Heel football history and on Monday he revealed the date that he will...

Anthony Pagnotta
Nov 18, 20242 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Lands 4-Star In-State Prospect, to Add to 2025 Recruiting Class
For the second time, in the 2025 recruiting class, Hubert Davis and his staff have added a top prospect, that will be a big part of the...

Joshua Marlow
Nov 2, 20242 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Contacts International Prospect
It was believed to be true that the Tar Heels roster was set for the 2024-25 season, but recent reporting may conflict with that belief....

Joshua Marlow
Jul 17, 20242 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Tar Heels In Final Six for 2026 In-State Athlete
Kendre Harrison is one of the best high athletes that the state of North Carolina has ever seen and it’s why he is the top priority for...

Anthony Pagnotta
Jul 15, 20242 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Tar Heels Land in 2025 5✮ Big Man’s Top Eight
The Tar Heels have turned up the heat on the 2025 recruiting trail in the last couple of months, handing out multiple offers to some of...

Anthony Pagnotta
Jun 27, 20241 min read


Heel Tough Blog: 2025 4✮ CG Sets Two Visits to Chapel Hill
Earlier this month, the Tar Heels extended an offer to 2025 4✮ CG Acaden Lewis and on Thursday morning, he set two visits to Chapel Hill,...

Anthony Pagnotta
Jun 20, 20241 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Heels Miss Out on Tennessee Big Man
Once the transfer portal opened up, and the Tar Heels started recruiting the players looking to transfer, the top priority for Hubert...

Joshua Marlow
Apr 30, 20242 min read


Heel Tough Blog: Hubert Davis Lands First Transfer Portal Commitment of 2024 Off-Season
After a long wait, the Tar Heels have finally landed their first transfer portal commitment of the 2024 off-season, in the form of Cade...

Joshua Marlow
Apr 28, 20242 min read


Heel Tough Blog: UNC Misses Out on Stanford Transfer
After making the final schools for Andrej Stojakovic earlier this week, the former McDonald’s All-American, and Stanford transfer,...

Joshua Marlow
Apr 27, 20241 min read
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