We’ve had two pieces of significant recruiting news since our last complete recruitcap: First, the signing of all five committed members of UNC’s 2020 basketball class (that was last week, yes), and second, that Trenton Simpson will be coming to Chapel Hill this weekend for the second time since his decommitment from Auburn. Check out details on those and more below:

Football:

• With 26 commitments, it looks like Mack Brown is slowing down for the class of 2020, but there’s still one player he’d love to complete the class: in-state linebacker Trenton Simpson, on whom UNC has been since his freshman year and who recently decommited from Auburn. Since then, his 247 Crystal Balls are 92% for UNC, Don Callahan of Inside Carolina has called him a “strong Carolina lean,” and Twitter tells us that he’s going to be making his second visit to Chapel Hill since the decommitment on Saturday. Recruiting is weird, and he notably doesn’t have the Clemson offer that could change things in an instant, but all this looks very good for UNC’s chances of getting the 33rd-best high school senior in the country.
• 247Sports updated some of their internal rankings several days ago, and a couple of UNC recruits have been hit pretty hard: Des Evans, once a top-30 player by 247’s internal metrics, is now in the 70’s, moving him down to a consensus 4-star. Ethan West lost a star as well, going from a 4-star to a 3-star through a precipitous drop. This isn’t all that surprising, given that neither player camped a ton, West has been said to have not been an immediate take for Virginia Tech (who are struggling to get anybody in this year’s class) pre-UNC commitment, and Evans hasn’t had the best senior season in terms of productivity. UNC currently has the 16th-ranked class in the nation.

Basketball:

• As we covered two weeks ago, UNC’s 5 basketball commitments for 2020 have been inked and joined the Carolina family: Day’Ron Sharpe, Walker Kessler, Caleb Love, R.J. Davis, and Puff Johnson. UNC will lose a senior and two graduate transfers to graduation, Cole Anthony is all but guaranteed to leave for the NBA after this year with his name atop big boards across the internet and unlikely to stray far from there, and K.J. Smith’s scholarship is presumed to be non-guaranteed given that he transferred as a walk-on legacy player. That’s five, meaning that’s all the guaranteed scholarships available for the Heels next year. Don’t expect Roy Williams to aggressively recruit the 2020 class further until and unless he suspects another spot to open up, which would likely be due to Armando Bacot looking like a one-and-done player. He’s not one to recruit without a guaranteed spot available.
• UNC ostensibly has four offers to uncommitted players in the 2020 class: Ziaire Williams, Kerwin Walton, Greg Brown, and Hunter Dickinson. Eric Bossi of Rivals stated a couple of weeks ago that UNC doesn’t seem to be looking at Brown anymore, and Dickinson cut his list to Duke, Florida State, Michigan, and Notre Dame back in October. That leaves Williams and Walton, who both haven’t put timelines on their decisions. We can probably put those recruitments to the back of our minds for now, but they’ll be the two we list in this feature moving forwards.
• Moving to the women’s side of things, new coach Courtney Banghart just announced an impressive 5-person signing class of her own, one that boasts two five-star players and ranks 11th in the country according to ESPNW. The big win was Deja Kelly, a five-star guard out of San Antonio, Texas. Kelly is the 17th-ranked player in her class and had a pretty odd recruitment, having committed to the Longhorns in middle school before opening it back up last year. Banghart was late to the party, for obvious reasons, but managed to convince Kelly that UNC is the place to be, and it was enough. Not bad for somebody who hasn’t recruited at this level before. The class also includes five-star forward Anya Poole out of Southeast Raleigh HS, four-star guard Kennedy Todd-Williams from Jacksonville, NC, three-star wing Alyssa Utsby from Rochester, Minnesota, and three-star forward Ali Zelaya from Goodyear, Arizona.