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UNC Basketball: 5-star prospect talks recruiting, G-League and Tar Heels

North Carolina’s Roy Williams may have the deepest and most talented front court in college basketball, but that hasn’t stopped the Hall-of-Fame head coach from getting out on the recruiting trail in search of the next crop of elite big men.

Williams has already extended a scholarship offer to the nation’s top center, Chet Holmgren, and he’s keeping a close eye on a handful of other bigs in the class. One of those is Jabari Smith, a 6-foot-10, 210-pound power forward out of Sandy Creek High School in Tyrone, Georgia. Ranked fifth overall in the class of 2021 according to the 247Sports Composite, Smith is the No.