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His top-rated teammate won’t join him at USC. His plan: show why ‘I should be a 5-star’

Trae Hannibal will begin his senior year at Hartsville High School on Monday. This will officially end a summer he spent with Mike Izzo, Bob Huggins, Tony Bennett, Roy Williams, Mike Krzyzewski, Rick Barnes, Frank Martin and Brad Brownell.

“It was fun playing in front of basically every coach in America,” Hannibal said. “It was really fun.”

Hannibal, who committed to South Carolina in early June, wasn’t as much the attraction as Josiah James, his AAU teammate and holder of 40-plus scholarship offers. The duo, representing the Charleston-based TMP organization, joined up in late spring and created a bond both on and off the floor.