LOS ANGELES — Following UNC basketball’s season-ending loss to Alabama in the NCAA Tournament, questions were ramping up about what the Tar Heels could look like in the 2024-25 season.
Third-year coach Hubert Davis brought in seven newcomers — including five players from the transfer portal — to surround veterans RJ Davis and Armando Bacot this season. That worked out for the Tar Heels (29-8), who won the ACC regular-season championship and snagged a No. 1 seed in March Madness.
The roster reconstruction also helped UNC sweep the major conference awards, with RJ Davis winning ACC Player of the Year and Hubert Davis being named ACC Coach of the Year.
But with the transfer portal, recruiting and players exhausting eligibility, roster continuity is a rarity in college basketball. Here’s an early look at what the Tar Heels might look like in the 2024-25 season.
Armando Bacot, Cormac Ryan, Paxson Wojcik are definitely gone
Armando Bacot, who notched his 87th career double-double in his final game as a Tar Heel to match Wake Forest’s Tim Duncan for the ACC record, has reached the end of his journey in Chapel Hill. Bacot averaged 14.5 points and 10.3 rebounds this season as UNC’s primary option in the post.
Cormac Ryan, who thrived as a Notre Dame transfer in his lone season at UNC, is also done with college basketball. Ryan averaged 11.5 points and proved to be one of the Tar Heels’ top shooters with a 35.2% clip from 3-point range.
Then there’s Paxson Wojcik, who played sparingly off the bench in an energy-booster role for the Heels after transferring from Brown. Each of those three players won’t be on UNC’s roster next season. 
UNC basketball’s RJ Davis, Harrison Ingram have decisions to make.
RJ Davis and Harrison Ingram are the top priorities for the Tar Heels. After an All-American season in which he averaged 21.2 points as the ACC Player of the Year, Davis might feel like he’s accomplished all he wants to accomplish in Chapel Hill. He also might want to call it a career alongside Bacot. But, if he wants to use it, UNC’s lead guard has a fifth year of eligibility.
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