Roughly a couple years ago, shortly after the Tar Heels failed to land five-star small forward Kevin Knox, Cameron Johnson entered the market as a graduate transfer from Pittsburgh with two years of eligibility remaining. After initially being told he’d have to sit out a year if he went to a school in the ACC, Pitt eventually abolished that stipulation, and thus Johnson became a Tar Heel.
At the time of his commitment, Jake Lawrence examined whether getting Johnson was actually better than the hypothetical situation in which the Heels won over Knox.