Is college basketball recruiting overrated? Last two NCAA champs might say yes.

Posted Jan 25, 2018
How is it you rarely hear of North Carolina at the top of the recruiting rankings and yet when March rolls around the Tar Heels are in or threatening to make the Final Four? It wasn’t long ago the media chatter claimed the game had passed ol’ Roy by. He wasn’t signing elite prospects. And then, boom, dadgum if Roy wasn’t the lead dog again with players like, well, Luke Maye. (Lexington Herald-Leader)

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