North Carolina’s 2027 recruiting board keeps growing, and the latest name to surface is top-20 guard Jalen Davis.
Davis, a high four-star point guard from Bremerton High School in Washington - the same school attended by former Tar Heel Marvin Williams - had already trimmed his list to 10 programs before UNC made its move. BYU, Gonzaga, Iowa, Ole Miss, Stanford, TCU, Texas Tech, UCLA, USC and Washington were all in the mix, but the Tar Heels jumped in late and quickly made an impression.
That push has already turned into a scheduled visit. Davis told Joe Tipton of On3 that he will be in Chapel Hill on October 3 for an official visit.
He’s also set to visit Stanford on September 26-27, Iowa on October 5-6, UCLA on October 16-17 and Gonzaga on November 7-8.
UNC’s staff got a good look at Davis during his matchup with another Tar Heel target, Adan Diggs, at Section 8. The 6-foot-3 guard also comes in off a strong summer on the adidas 3SSB Circuit, where he averaged 24.3 points, 5.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists.
Rivals national recruiting analyst Jamie Shaw offered this evaluation of Davis:
“Davis has positional size, but he is also comfortable on or off the ball. With his length, he has some sneaky speed with the ball in hs hands and can really put pressure on the defense in the open floor.
He is also a quality shooter from three-point range. As he cleans up his footwork and continues to work on his reads, there is real upside here with his natural abilities and physical gifts.”
For Malone and the Tar Heels, Davis is the kind of late-emerging target that shows how active UNC has been across the 2027 class. The program is in the conversation for plenty of major names, but it still has no commitments yet. The work is clearly ongoing.
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