One top insider suggests a prime UNC basketball target may be leaning toward the SEC team that crushed Tar Heel dreams back in March.
Alabama ended the 2023-24 UNC basketball campaign in the Sweet 16. Now, Crimson Tide head coach Nate Oats has eyes on delivering a knockout blow to the Tar Heels' Hubert Davis and the other remaining suitors for Link Academy rising senior Jasper Johnson, a 6-foot-4, 175-pound guard sitting at No. 10 overall on the 247Sports 2025 Composite.
And while the 247Sports Crystal Ball for Johnson remains empty, Branham hints at the Tide's edge over UNC and another blueblood in home-state hopeful Kentucky. "This recruitment is becoming a battle between North Carolina and Alabama," Branham explained on the show. "Kentucky remains involved. Obviously, he is from just 30 minutes down the street in Woodford County, where he was born and raised, and again, he took an unofficial visit there recently.
"But he also came off an official visit to Alabama . And based on what I am hearing, it seems like Alabama could be the team to beat. But North Carolina is very, very deeply involved; it seems there's heavy mutual interest and that Jasper thinks very fondly of the Tar Heels. And this will be one battle that we will be monitoring in the weeks ahead.
But the three recent additions to that list of backcourt targets — four-stars Braylon Mullins, Derek Dixon, and Acaden Lewis — could indicate that Davis and his crew have lost confidence in their other perimeter pursuits.
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