With the 2017-2018 North Carolina basketball roster almost entirely set (still waiting on the Cameron Johnson debacle to wrap up), it is time to start looking ahead to what each player will bring to next year’s team and what types of roles they will play. The first player we will examine is Sterling Manley.
Manley is a six-foot-ten, 220-pound center from Pickerington, Ohio. He averaged 16.1 ppg and 8.5 rpg in his senior season at Pickerington Central High School. As a three-star recruit, a player such as Manley would normally not be asked to do much in his first year with UNC.