Can an unofficial visit keep UNC basketball in the lead for five-star point guard Robert Dillingham?
Hubert Davis has secured an early sit-down with one of UNC basketballs top 2023 recruits. Five-star Combine Academy point guard and longtime Tar Heel target Robert Dillingham is unofficially visiting Chapel Hill on Tuesday, as first reported last week by Stockrisers. The No. 2 junior point guard in the country will also unofficially visit N.C. State, which offered Dillingham a scholarship this month. Davis has already been in touch with Dillingham since he was hired as UNCs head coach in April. But Tuesdays unofficial visit will give them a chance to catch up on campus and in person, since the NCAAs Division I recruiting dead period expired on June 1 and schools have returned to their normal schedules. Dillingham  a Hickory native who plays for former UNC and NBA point guard Jeff McInnis at Combine Academy in Lincolnton  earned his initial UNC scholarship offer from retired coach Roy Williams staff last December. Davis and his staff, unsurprisingly, have re-affirmed that offer, according to 247Sports. The 6-foot-1, 160-pound Dillingham has firmly established himself as one of the best recruits in the nation. Hes an elite scorer who can just as easily convert into a pass-first point guard depending on game flow, and he averaged 20 points, four rebounds and four assists per game as a sophomore. The No. 11 recruit in the class of 2023, Dillingham participated in the USA Basketball Mens Junior National Team Camp in May. Hes also playing AAU basketball for North Carolina-based Team CP3. Although industry insiders consider UNC a favorite to land Dillingham  the Tar Heels already have three Crystal Ball predictions for the point guard  plenty of other major programs have shown interest. Read more:Once UNC basketball and Hubert Davis were free to contact 2023 recruits, this forward quickly got an offer  Once NCAA rules allowed college coaches to directly contact 2023 recruits on June 15, Dillingham heard from Arkansas, Duke, Florida, Kansas and Kentucky along with the Tar Heels, per 247Sports and Rivals. Dillingham was the first 2023 recruit to receive a UNC offer. The Tar Heels added another player to that list this month, though: four-star power forward Gregory G.G. Jackson of Ridge View High School in South Carolina, the No. 30 recruit in the country and an AAU basketball teammate of Dillinghams. Chapel Fowler is a recruiting reporter for The Fayetteville Observer and the USA TODAY Network. Reach him by email at cfowler@gannett.com or on Twitter at @chapelfowler.