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Five-Star UNC Basketball Commit Set to Officially Silence Rumors
UNC basketball recruiting prize Ian Jackson plans to ink his national letter of intent this weekend.
For months, there has been chatter about Our Saviour Lutheran School (N.Y.) senior guard Ian Jackson potentially backing out of his UNC basketball commitment to play for St. John’s head coach Rick Pitino. That’s despite the 6-foot-5, 185-pound five-star consistently denying any substance to that chatter.
At 10:30 a.m. ET Saturday, Jackson will put those rumors to rest — or at least do everything he can to accomplish that — by signing his national letter of intent to play for the Tar Heels next season, national recruiting insider Adam Zagoria reported on Tuesday morning.
Saturday is the third day of the weeklong early signing period.
Jackson, No. 10 overall and No. 2 in New York on the 247Sports 2024 Composite, verbally committed to UNC basketball head coach Hubert Davis and his staff in January, within two weeks of his official visit with the Tar Heels. He returned to Chapel Hill this past weekend for another official visit.
Meanwhile, it’s a safe bet that UNC’s other two 2024 pledges, Link Academy (Mo.) four-star center James Brown and Northwood High School (N.C.) five-star forward Drake Powell, will join Ian Jackson by putting their Tar Heel commitment in ink in the coming days. However, they have yet to announce a time for doing so.
That said, on Monday, Brown posted a signing day countdown to his Instagram account, including a heart emoji next to a ram emoji.
And Powell, who took an official visit to Chapel Hill alongside Brown a few weeks ago, has been on campus several times in the past few months.
