In addition to Kentucky and North Carolina, Troy Williams is now considering Louisville, Florida, South Carolina and Georgetown.

Williams, a top-5 forward in the class of 2013, indicated the six schools are currently even.

Chris Paul was a late-bloomer who grew eight inches between his sophomore and junior years of high school.

“I loved the Tar Heels,” Paul said, smiling. “I grew up following North Carolina. It was 13 miles away from my home in Lewisville. Since I was a little kid, that was the only school I wanted to play for.”

Paul led his high school team to a 26-4 record during his senior season and shortly thereafter received the scholarship offer he had coveted.

“I had waited patiently for that day to come,” Paul said, recalling that he could initially only get UNC to encourage him to walk-on. “I wanted to know I was good enough to get one. As soon as it was offered, I called coach [Skip Prosser] and committed to Wake Forest.”

Troy Williams, a top-10 prospect in the class of 2013, plans to add at least two schools to his previous list of Kentucky and North Carolina, with Florida, Villanova, Georgetown and Louisville under consideration.

“We’ll probably let two more schools back in, just to see what else is out there,” Williams said. “It’s probably going to be between Florida, Villanova, Georgetown and Louisville. It will probably be Georgetown and Florida.”

Williams said his decision will depend on his comfort level with the coach.

“That’s the deciding factor, which head coach I like more,” Williams said. “I care about my relationship with the head coaches, not just the assistants. It all depends on the coaching staff.”

With a vacancy on his coaching staff, Roy Williams received interest from at least 14 former players.

But when it came to Hubert Davis, it was Williams who called him.

“Coach Williams asked me to come into his office; he wanted to ask me a favor,’’ Davis said. “I thought he was calling me in to change the dates of my camp [a Christian basketball camp he runs each year at UNC]. … But when I went into the office, he said, ‘I have a really big favor.’ I said, ‘OK, what is it, Coach?’ He said, ‘I want you to be an assistant coach on my staff.’ 

"I said, ‘What?’ It was a total surprise.” 

Davis only needed a few days to leave ESPN after seven years to return to North Carolina as an assistant coach.

North Carolina has added former Tar Heels guard Hubert Davis as an assistant coach.

Davis fills the void left by former UNC assistant Jerod Haase, who took the top job at Alabama-Birmingham.

“I knew the day would eventually come when I would need to replace staff members as they moved on,” Roy Williams said in a statement. “For the last four or five years, Hubert has always been on my mind in case a spot did come open. I didn’t know if I could get him to come back, but I knew I wanted him to be the first option.”