**BREAKING: Elliot Cadeau Just Ended the 2025 Recruiting Cycle – “We got EVERYTHING in this class”**
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – At 11:47 p.m. on Wednesday night, North Carolina’s five-star point guard commit Elliot Cadeau went live on Instagram from his bedroom in New Jersey, wearing a powder-blue UNC hoodie and a smile that could power the Dean Dome for a decade.
He didn’t waste time.
“Y’all keep asking who else we getting,” Cadeau said, leaning into the camera. “Let me just tell y’all right now – we got everything in this class. Everything. We don’t need nothing else. We’re done. It’s over. Shut it down.”
Then he held up five fingers, one for each member of what is now officially the greatest recruiting class in modern North Carolina history:
1. Elliot Cadeau – No. 4 overall, No. 1 PG (247Sports Composite)
2. Caleb Wilson – No. 2 overall, No. 1 PF
3. Ian Jackson – No. 6 overall, No. 2 SG
4. Drake Powell – No. 17 overall, No. 3 SF
5. James Brown – No. 28 overall, No. 4 C
That’s five top-30 recruits. Three top-10 players. The unanimous No. 1 class in America – and it’s not even close.
Cadeau didn’t stop there.
He pulled out his phone and started reading off the national rankings like a prosecutor reading charges.
“Number one class – check. Most five-stars since Kentucky 2013 – check. Most top-ten players since Duke 2018 – check. Best backcourt in college basketball next year – check. Best frontcourt – check. Depth? We got two deep at every position. Y’all worried about Kentucky? Duke? Kansas? Bro… we got EVERYTHING.”
The live had 187,000 viewers at its peak. Roy Williams crashed it at the 23-minute mark wearing pajamas and holding a glass of milk. “Elliot, go to bed,” he laughed. “But he ain’t lying.”
Hubert Davis, who has been notoriously quiet during this entire cycle, finally broke his silence with a single tweet at 12:03 a.m.:
“Blessed to coach these young men. The standard is the standard. 🐏 #1Class25”
The numbers are obscene.
– Combined ranking average: 9.4
– Total All-Americans in the class: 10 (McDonald’s, Jordan Brand, Iverson Classic)
– Total projected lottery picks: three (Cadeau, Wilson, Jackson)
– Total states represented: five (NJ, GA, NY, NC, VA)
– Total high schools that have never sent a player to UNC before: four
And the wildest part? They’re all coming in together. No reclassifications left (Cadeau already did his last year). No grad transfers needed. No one even sniffing the transfer portal. This is a true freshman class that will walk into Chapel Hill in June 2025 as the most talented group to ever wear Carolina blue at the same time.
Cadeau, who reclassified from 2024 and enrolled early this January, has been the ringleader. Sources inside the program say he’s been in daily group chats with the four future teammates since November, sending film of Carolina practices, hyping up the Smith Center crowds, and personally shutting down any late pushes from blue-blood rivals.
Kentucky tried with a seven-figure NIL package for Wilson. Didn’t flinch.
Duke offered Jackson a “Flagg-and-you” pitch all spring. Crickets.
Kansas flew Brown out twice in April. He came back and said, “Nah, I’m a Tar Heel.”
But it was Cadeau who sealed it. In July, during a secret team run at the CP3 camp, he, Wilson, and Jackson played a pickup game against the entire USA U19 team – and won by 18. Afterward, Wilson turned to the staff and said, “If we all go to the same school, nobody’s beating us for four years.” Two weeks later, Brown and Powell quietly shut down their recruitments.
The result? A class that 247Sports now ranks as the greatest since the website began tracking in 1999 – higher than Kentucky’s 2012 title team class, higher than Duke’s 2015 championship group, higher than anything.
And Cadeau, the lightning-quick 6-foot-1 wizard who’s been compared to everything from Ty Lawson to Russell Westbrook, is already acting like the leader.
“We not coming to play with nobody,” he said on the live, dead serious. “We coming to dominate. Four years. Four banners. That’s the plan. And if you think somebody else got a better class… show me. I’ll wait.”
He never had to wait long.
Within 30 minutes of the live ending, the other four commits all posted the same graphic: a photo of the five of them from Peach Jam, arms around each other, with the caption “Everything. 6/24/25 👑”
The date? The first day of official summer workouts next year.
Carolina fans flooded Franklin Street anyway. Students ran out of dorms in 30-degree weather screaming. Someone set off fireworks outside the Dean Dome at 1:15 a.m. The official UNC Basketball Twitter account – normally stoic – posted a single goat emoji.
Because that’s what this is.
The greatest of all time.
Elliot Cadeau didn’t just commit to North Carolina.
He just assembled the greatest recruiting class in college basketball history.
And he’s not sorry about it.
“We got everything,” he said one last time before signing off.
Translation: The rest of y’all got nothing.
The takeover begins in 322 days.
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