Basketball season is actually a pretty significant recruiting period for both football and basketball — the former because it’s the time that coaches have completely off from football and are thus able to host recruiting events, and the latter, self-evidently, because coaches are watching high schoolers play, keeping tabs on the development of players they’re interested in and even the ones who are already committed. Sometimes, it’s a really ripe time for new offers, but we haven’t seen any of those — the actual news side is light. So let’s recap:

Football:

• 247 did their five-star reveal for the class of 2022 on Tuesday, and, as expected, UNC’s class has two players in their top 32, which makes up their five-star category. Zach Rice, the offensive tackle from Lynchburg, VA, came in at #19, with current Cleveland Browns starter Jedrick Wills listed as his pro comparison. At #12 was Greensboro-raised defensive tackle Travis Shaw, who was compared to Chicago Bears star Akiem Hicks. They’ve both been comfortably within the network’s top 20 for the whole recruiting cycle, so this isn’t a surprise, but it’s still validating — and the comps are pretty cool.

Basketball:

• Like I said, Hubert Davis and his staff haven’t given out any new offers recently this season. They did recently host Cam Scott, a shooting guard from South Carolina in the class of 2024, at their game against Georgia Tech, so that might be where the next one comes from. 247 haven’t ranked the 2024 class in any kind of detail yet, but Rivals and ESPN both have him as the 20th-ish best player in his class.
• All of the attention of UNC fans is on Gregory “GG” Jackson, whom the Heels’ staff has been after for a while but who’s also recently been getting a ton of national attention and has been talked about as perhaps the best player in his class, as he’s having an absolutely monster junior season. He was recently at Duke for an official visit and has scheduled one to hometown South Carolina in early February, to go with the ones to UNC and Georgetown he’s already taken. Georgetown seems to be the outlier of those programs; he’ll probably end up deciding between the other three. Also, according to this Sports Illustrated article, after considering reclassifying into 2022, he’s decided against it.