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UNC is currently focusing on transfers for next year's basketball roster, including Neoklis Avdalas. Fans are asked to share their 'white whale' recruitsâplayers who were close to joining but ultimately didn't.
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On the basketball side of things, weâre still very much in transfer portal season. With Michael Malone taking charge of the menâs team, next yearâs UNC roster is still taking shape. Over the past couple weeks, weâve been hearing about the transfers theyâre interested in, including landing Neoklis Avdalas.
However, itâs inevitable that as the Tar Heels continue to put together next yearâs team that theyâll miss out on someone theyâre connected to. With 300+ Division I teams and the specter of players also trying to make the leap to the NBA, itâs just math that every team isnât going to land every target that they have.
Itâs wit that in mind that I bring todayâs question of the day to you. Whether it be in basketball, football, or any sport at North Carolina, who is the white whale recruit that you had wished they landed? For the record, I want to know players they were ever legitimately connected with. Sure, I wouldâve loved it if LeBron James had come to Carolina, but that man was never not going to the NBA right out of high school. I want to know players who seemed legitimately close to coming to Carolina but didnât in the end.
My personal answer is for reasons that now make me look kind of silly. Back when he was a senior in high school, Andrew Wiggins was seen as next up in the lineage of canât miss future #1 NBA Draft picks. He still went #1 and has had a perfectly nice career, but definitely hasnât been what I and others thought he would be when he was a recruit.
During Wigginsâ recruiting process, UNC was one of the teams in the running for him, with Wiggins even attending the UNC-Duke game at the Smith Center. Also around that time, a Twitter account claiming to be Wiggins started following fans of all the schools he was considering, including yours truly. Iâm not sure if that was prior to the advent of Twitter using verified checkmarks, but even if it was, it didnât seem that farfetched that a teenage boy would want to use social media like that. Between that and the fact that he seemed like a canât miss prospect, I talked myself into Carolina needing him.
As it turned out, that Twitter account was not Wiggins himself, as the real player is actually a fairly shy and reserved person in real life. While he also wouldâve made the 2013-14 UNC team better, he didnât end up being the dominant player that he was expected to be. Wiggins actually attended Kansas and his team ended up getting upset in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. As a program, Carolina also ended up perfectly fine, going to the title game in 2016 and winning it the following year.
On a lesser note, current Twinsâ baseball prospect was committed to UNC before Minnesota took him with the fifth overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. Considering that heâs now ranked among the best prospects in all of baseball currently, him actually attending Carolina wouldâve been nice.
Those are my choices, but letâs here from you know. Who is your UNC âwhite whale?â
Neoklis Avdalas is a transfer target for UNC's basketball team, and his potential addition could significantly impact the roster's strength for the upcoming season.
'White whale' refers to a highly sought-after recruit that UNC fans wished had joined the team but ultimately did not, despite being closely connected at some point.
UNC faces challenges due to the competitive nature of the transfer portal and the possibility of players moving to the NBA, making it difficult to secure all desired recruits.
The discussion primarily focuses on basketball, but it also includes football and other sports where fans hope to see high-profile recruits.

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