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Duke basketball staff should survive cut from top UNC target

The 2020 Duke basketball class already includes two five-stars — small forward Jalen Johnson and point guard Jeremy Roach — both ranked higher than North Carolina’s lone commit, five-star center Day’Ron Sharpe.

A third may be in the works.

Sierra Canyon (Chatsworth, Calif.) small forward Ziaire Williams — who, at No. 7 on the 247Sports Composite, sits three spots behind Johnson, 11 ahead of Roach, and 14 ahead of Sharpe — will announce his seven finalists Sunday, per Tipton Edits.

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Up until Duke entered the race with an offer a few weeks ago, UNC and Stanford were the dual favorites to land the 6-foot-8, 190-pound five-star — an athletic, lengthy, sharpshooting specimen in the mold of former Duke basketball stars Rodney Hood and Brandon Ingram.