RJ Davis announces return to North Carolina for 2022-23 season :: WRALSportsFan.com

By Mark Bergin, WRAL senior multiplatform producer

North Carolina Tar Heels guard RJ Davis is returning to highschool for the 2022-23 season.

Davis introduced his choice in a 1-minute, 14-second video posted to his Twitter account on Saturday afternoon.

“Y’all thought I used to be leaving?” Davis mentioned. “Nah, let’s run it again.”

Davis will probably be a junior within the 2022-23 season.

As a sophomore within the 2021-22 season, Davis began 39 video games, averaging 13.5 factors, 3.6 assists and 4.3 rebounds per sport.

Davis, Armando Bacot and Leaky Black have every introduced they may return to North Carolina for the upcoming season as a substitute of getting into into the 2022 NBA Draft.

It offers head coach Hubert Davis three returning starters from the 2021-2022 crew, which made it to the nationwide title sport earlier than falling brief in opposition to Kansas.

As for the opposite two starters, sophomore guard Caleb Love has but to publicly announce whether or not he intends to declare for the draft or if he’ll return to North Carolina for the 2022-23 season. Ahead Brady Manek is out of school eligibility.

School gamers and worldwide early entrants have till the top of the day on Sunday to submit their names into the 2022 NBA Draft pool. The draft is ready for June 23.