We’ve reached the time of year where offer lists begin to dwindle as commitment dominoes start to fall. The situation is one as old as recruiting itself and tends to create a number of two-team races. The 2025 cycle has held true to history on that front, as a handful of major national prospects have recently narrowed their focus to include two or so options.
Today, Rivals national recruiting analyst Rob Cassidy cuts through the noise and explores five recruitments that have essentially become two-team races, even if some prospects have other programs hanging around their lists as window dressing.
Caleb Wilson’s recruitment has been heating up and appears to now be a two-team race.
One of the top prospects in the Class of 2025, Wilson has been linked to the UNC basketball program. The 6-foot-9 forward has made two trips to Chapel Hill (one official, one unofficial), to really gauge how he would fit if he chose to attend North Carolina.
Rob Cassidy of Rivals recently provided an update on Wilson’s recruitment, which indicates that the UNC basketball program and Kentucky are the schools that appear to be battling it out. While the Tar Heels are still very much involved, Cassidy believes Kentucky has the upper edge.
“First-year Kentucky head coach Mark Pope continues to build momentum in Lexington. He’s already frustrated North Carolina fans once this cycle by landing point guard Jasper Johnson, who was heavily considering UNC before Pope took the reins of the Wildcat program.
Now, the Tar Heels must guard against losing another high-profile target to Kentucky, as UK and UNC appear to be the clear front-runners to land five-star forward Caleb Wilson. A Georgia-based star, Wilson appears to be trending toward Big Blue Nation, but the Tar Heels don’t seem interested in waving the white flag just yet. Wilson last toured Chapel Hill in early October for a one-day unofficial visit, which seems to have done little to create separation for Hubert Davis’ program.
No decision date has been set just yet, but there’s some confidence starting to radiate .”
After missing out on five-star guard Jasper Johnson to the Wildcats, the UNC basketball program hopes that they can make up some ground in this particular recruitment. Wilson would be the type of addition the Tar Heels need for this recruiting cycle- an elite talent who has the makings of being a one-and-done type of prospect that can take the UNC basketball program to another level while he’s on campus.
With only one player currently committed to North Carolina from the Class of 2025, fans are getting anxious to see if Hubert Davis and his staff can lure in some more top talents to join current commit Derek Dixon.
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