North Carolina Tar Heels coach Roy Williams watched Huntington Prep's 99-53 win over the University of Charleston JV team on Wednesday.

"We're in exam period right now, so we didn't practice today at all and Monday and Tuesday, we had very little workout, so I'm trying to get out and see quite a bit this week," Williams said.

Presumably, Williams was there to watch Andrew Wiggins and Montaque Gill-Caesar.
 
"Williams is not only here for Andrew. He's here for Tekhi (Gill-Caesar), too," Huntington coach Rob Fulford said. "Tekhi is top 15 in the country in his class and those schools are obviously going to recruit him. I challenged him a little bit and he competed a little bit more and got out in transition."

The 6-foot-5 Gill-Caesar, a 2015 prospect, finished with 21 points and 10 rebounds in the win over Charleston.

North Carolina has not used small ball lineups in the past, choosing instead to rely on an inside-out philosophy led by capable forwards and centers.

Early this season, though, the Tar Heels have excelled with a lineup comprised essentially of four guards.

“I hope that we don’t have to go small by necessity like it was against Butler,” Roy Williams said, referencing the Tar Heels’ second-half comeback earlier this season against the Bulldogs, who held on to win after UNC’s small lineup cut a 29-point second-half lead to six. “But [against UAB] we went small because I thought it would help us. But we’ll play that lineup. It’s hard to guard. But we’ve got to do a better job on the defensive end, too, and protect the goal.”

The Tar Heels' four-guard lineup has at times been a liability on defense.

“I felt like we [weren’t] talking enough on the defensive end of the floor,” Reggie Bullock said of the defensive breakdowns on Sunday against UAB. “We were letting their shooters just come off and just drill us without talking, saying, ‘Switch.’ Because we were small, we could really switch with anyone.”

Joel Berry, a top-30 prospect in 2014, plans to visit North Carolina in January or February of next year.

Berry, a 6-foot-2 guard who plays at Orlando Lake Highland Prep, has scholarship offers from Duke, Kansas, Florida State and Ohio State, among others.

Andrew Wiggins will visit Florida State from Dec. 4-5, Huntington Prep coach Rob Fulford confirmed.

“He’s going to Florida State, I think Tuesday morning,” Fulford said after Wiggins scored 29 points, grabbed 17 rebounds, blocked five shots and recorded five assists in a 76-59 win over Memphis East on Friday. “He’s going down for the Florida game [Wednesday].”

Both of Wiggins' parents -- former NBA player Mitchell Wiggins and former Canadian Olympic track star Marita Payne-Wiggins -- attended Florida State.

“I like to see everything that happened there with my parents,” Wiggins said of FSU. “It would be a joy to go there, I mean great weather. Great people, great education. Great coaching staff. they make players better. They don’t always get the best players in the nation, or top five or top ten, but they develop four-year players to get ready for the NBA.”

Fulford said Wiggins would also like to visit Kentucky, Kansas and North Carolina.

“He’s said he wants to go to Florida State, Kentucky, Kansas and North Carolina,” he said. “Those are the ones he said he wants to visit. Timeframe, we don’t know. I mean obviously we just don’t have a ton of weekends available for visits. I know he’s going to take this one because his parents can come, but yeah, he said he wants to take at least those four.”