Yesterday he was in Duke, where we covered his overwhelming praise for freshman Dame Sarr, but today, the UNC Tar Heels are looking to bounce back from a disappointing season last year.

Rothstein started off talking about how the overall vibe coming out of camp is that there will be a lot of old-school play, specifically involving two bigs rather than going small.

It shouldn’t be a surprise. It was a legendary coach Roy Williams’ old model, and current coach Hubert Davis worked under Williams as both a player and an assistant.

The one thing that UNC has working out is its bigs. Caleb Wilson is the big dog around town, as the five-star freshman that Davis and his staff worked hard at bringing in. He’s a 6-foot-10 power forward with arms that span Route 66.

But he’s not limited to just defense, he’s a refined athlete who can be dominant on the low block or in transition. Because of his ability to run the floor, there will be plenty of opportunities for explosive alley-oops or offensive putbacks which can send Dean Smith Center rocking.

Not only that, Henri Veesaar, the junior transfer out of Arizona will be pivotal to guarding the paint. He’s a mammoth of a man at seven feet tall who can move around the floor  gracefully and can knock down the open jumper.  

He spent most of his career coming off the bench, but this time with UNC, expect him to start and create an ideal dynamic for Davis’ squad.

However, one of the standouts that Rothstein seems to think will be for UNC this upcoming season is transfer guard out of Colorado State, Kyan Evans.

Evans is such a big piece coming to the Tar Heels because of his elite ability to shoot from the perimeter. 

He shot a staggering 44% from 3-point land last season, which led the Mountain West, and ranked in the top-10 in the nation.

It’s not like North Carolina did a poor job at shooting from the perimeter. As a team, it shot 35.6% from deep, and a lot of it was due to Jae’lyn Withers and Ian Jackson. 

Withers, a redshirt senior at the time, was nothing more than a bench player though, and didn’t play a ton of minutes. Jackson decided to transfer to St. John’s, and in turn, Davis brought in Jarin Stevenson, the perimeter shooting big man from Alabama.

One other part that is hard to ignore is apparently freshman Derik Dixon has been making waves around camp.

Rothstein posted on X that there was “palpable buzz” surrounding the top-50 recruit and that he’s likely going to crack the rotation.

From getting ousted in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Ole Miss last season, the plan for the Tar Heels is to get back into the ACC elite.