Future UNC Basketball Forward Records First Triple-Double
Drake Powell, a top 2024 UNC basketball recruit, seems to be as adept at passing the ball as he is at scoring and grabbing rebounds.
Northwood (N.C.) star Drake Powell finished 5-for-8 from the field to score 10 points, 10 rebounds, and 11 assists in Friday night’s 73-24 rout of North Moore High School (N.C.). The 2024 UNC basketball signee accomplished this impressively without making a single turnover.
Powell recorded his first triple-double as a prep, per a social media tweet from the team’s account. Powell’s performance was efficient.
Despite the fact that these recent highlights aren’t from Friday night’s game, Elite Mixtapes’ Bryce Lanning’s caption highlighting the flexibility of the future Tar Heel certainly held up well in the context of Powell’s triple-double:
Here’s a look at that triple-double effort, evidence of Powell’s underrated playmaking in the open court:
Reaching No. 9 overall on the 247Sports 2024 Composite, the 6-foot-6, 195-pound chiseled forward was added to the 25-deep midseason watchlist for the Naismith Boys’ High School Player of the Year Trophy on Thursday. Ian Jackson, a guard from Our Saviour Lutheran (N.Y.), who was the other five-star in UNC’s 2024 class, made it through that cut as well.
Along with Link Academy (Mo.) four-star center James Brown, Powell and Jackson inked their national letter of intent with the Tar Heels during the early signing period in November.
Those three comprise the nation’s No. 7 haul in the 2024 cycle, per 247Sports.
Powell, whose school is only a 20-minute drive from the Smith Center, became the first 2024 UNC basketball recruiting prize when he committed to Hubert Davis and his staff back in September 2022.
Stay tuned to All Tar Heels on SI.com for more on Drake Powell’s senior campaign in high school and other UNC basketball recruiting news.
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