NCAA recruiting is a never-ending game of chess: when one pawn is added to the chessboard, another often leaves as a result. Especially when these two pawns want to go on the same square.
The metaphor currently applies to the Chapel Hill campus, headquarters of the basketball program of North Carolina. While the Tar Heels recently secured the arrival, a year ahead, of “freshman” Elliot Cadeau, the best point guard in “high school”, another “freshman” point guard, Simeon Wilcheralready engaged with UNC for several months, has actually decided to leave the ship suddenly.
We say “suddenly” because it is all the same quite rare, at this period of the offseason, for a future “freshman” to disengage from his team, but in the case of the Tar Heels, it is not in fact a big surprise.
Because Elliot Cadeau indeed arrives at Chapel Hill to seize the position of titular leader and therefore the majority of the minutes, thus leaving crumbs to Simeon Wilcher, if he had stayed. Especially since the “backcourt” of coach Hubert Davis is also composed of the “senior” RJ Davis, second back capable of playing leader, and the “sophomore” Seth Trimble, a “freshman” leader last season and promised at the start of the school year. to a more important role.
Rick Pitino wastes no time
There are therefore people on the balcony on the 1/2 positions in North Carolina’s rotation for the 2023/24 season, and Simeon Wilcher therefore preferred to look elsewhere, somewhere where the minutes will be easier to obtain.
On the Queens side, in the ranks of the “new look” workforce of Rick Pitino To St. John’s, For example ? It is quite possible, if we are to believe the information of Zach Braziller of the NY Postwhich reports that the legendary technician is already on the job and has already “booked” a visit from Simeon Wilcher to the Red Storm campus this Thursday.
Hired in March to relaunch the Queens program, adrift in recent years, the indestructible Rick Pitino has completely rebuilt the Red Storm workforce in recent weeks, and could finalize its off-season in a very nice way by securing recruitment. leader, ranked 34th in his age group.
A native of New Jersey, moreover, and who would therefore be closer to home by joining the Queens campus…
