UNC basketball roster 2024-25: Who will join RJ Davis, Elliot Cadeau in starting lineup?

In just over four and a half months, North Carolina basketball will start the 2024-25 season with a new-look squad hoping to help the Tar Heels make a deep run in March Madness.

UNC won the ACC regular-season title and snagged a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, finishing with a 29-8 record last season.

In the months since the Tar Heels’ Sweet 16 loss to Alabama, fourth-year coach Hubert Davis has lost three starters and added two players from the transfer portal to join a trio of freshmen.

Cade Tyson (Belmont) and Ven-Allen Lubin (Vanderbilt) joined the roster via the portal. Ian Jackson, Drake Powell and James Brown are arriving in Chapel Hill as part of the 2024 recruiting class to join several returners, including star guards RJ Davis and Elliot Cadeau.

Here’s what the starting lineup could look like when the Tar Heels tip off the 2024-25 season in early November.

UNC basketball starting lineup prediction

Here’s an early starting lineup prediction for UNC to start the 2024-25 season.

Elliot Cadeau

UNC’s top facilitator as a freshman, Cadeau’s comfort will increase in his second season alongside veteran guard RJ Davis. Cadeau, 19, averaged 7.3 points and 4.1 assists per game last season. He led the Tar Heels with 150 assists, the most by a freshman since Marcus Paige in 2013. But Cadeau missed 43 of his 53 attempts from 3-point range last season. He’s elite at finishing around the rim and finding teammates, but his outside shooting has to improve.

RJ Davis

The return of Davis keeps UNC in the conversation among the national contenders. The reigning ACC Player of the Year was a first-team All-American guard after averaging a league-best 21.2 points. The fifth-year senior drilled 39.8% of his 3-pointers last season and won the Jerry West Award as the top shooting guard in the nation. His leadership and scoring are vital for a program that lost a trio of veteran starters from last year’s team.

Ian Jackson

After Cadeau and Davis, head coach Hubert Davis will have a…

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Author : The Fayetteville Observer

Publish date : 2024-06-20 08:02:00

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