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UNC Basketball: 5-star UNC target, Georgia native is ‘open to everyone’

6-foot-10, 225-pound Walker Kessler has been around the University of Georgia his whole life. From living in Fairburn, Georgia — less than two hours away from Athens where the state’s flagship school is — to growing up with his father, uncle and brother who all played college basketball for the Bulldogs, it’s no wonder why the talented big man is strongly considering the scholarship offer he received from UGA head coach Tom Crean.

Despite Kessler’s longstanding ties with the university and obvious comfort level with the in-state school, though, the 5-star center from the class of 2020 states that there is no pipeline leading him to Georgia.