UNC adds 3 more players to incoming class for 2025-26 season

Michael Malone's first basketball team at North Carolina continues to take shape.

The school announced on Friday that Terrence Brown, a senior guard from Minneapolis, has signed with the school. Brown has scored 1,542 points in three seasons, two of them at (2023-25) at Fairleigh Dickinson from 2023 to 2025, in Teaneck, N.J., and last season at Utah, averaging 16.1 points in 96 games.

Earlier in the week, the Tar Heels announced that Kevin Thomas, a 6-fot-7 wing from Chester, Pennsylvania, also signed with the team. Thomas played at Sagemont Prep in Weston, Florida, where he helped win three Class 1A state championships.

He averaged 15.5 points, 4.2 rebounds, 2.7 assists and two steals and made 60 3-pointers for Sagemont as a senior.

Thomas joins an incoming class from the high school ranks that currently includes Maximo Adams from Northridge, California, and Malloy Smith from Encino, California.

Matt Able, a 6-6 guard from Baltimore who spent last season at NC State, also joined Malone's first team. The rising sophomore averaged 8.8 points last season, scoring in double figures 14 times, including a season-high 19 points against the Tar Heels. He pulled his name from consideration for the NBA Draft

Able teamed with Thomas to lead Sagemont Prep to the 2025 Florida 1-A state title.

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This story was originally published May 31, 2026 at 5:45 AM.