CBS Sports predicts Tar Heels basketball starting lineup for 2024-25

Hubert Davis and the North Carolina Tar Heels will enter this season with a National Championship on their minds and in their sights. CBS Sports predicts that RJ Davis will go back-to-back on ACC Player of the Year awards. Is his presence alone enough to bolster this roster to a championship?

Jon Rothstein from CBS Sports has UNC as his No. 1 team coming out of the ACC followed by Duke , Wake Forest, Clemson , and Miami rounding out the conference’s top five according to the analyst.

Rothstein projects the following as North Carolina’s starting lineup this year:

Guard: Elliot Cadeau

Guard: RJ Davis

Guard: Ian Jackson

Forward: Jae’Lyn Withers

Forward: Ven-Allen Lubin

Cadeau and Davis are the only two players staying in the starting five from last year. Jackson is a freshman and the No. 8 overall player in the Class of 2024. Withers served as a role player off the bench last season after transferring from Louisville the offseason prior, and Lubin transferred in from Vanderbilt this offseason.

Don’t forget that depth will be on Hubert Davis’ side as well with the No. 11 overall player in the 2024 class, Drake Powell, coming off the bench. The star power and young talent of this team could be the perfect championship mix.

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