Seventh Woods sounds like the second coming.
With all the hoopla over Duke’s next big recruiting class for the coming season, a UNC signee who may be better than all of them has gotten lost in the royal blue publicity. His name is Seventh Woods, a 6-1 point guard from Columbia, South Carolina, who Roy Williams compares, and not lightly, to Ty Lawson.
Woods was profiled last weekend in a News & Observer story by South Carolina sportswriter Ron Morris, who did a thorough job after a concerted effort to get an interview with Woods’ protective parents. Apparently, this kid is something special, and it goes beyond the basketball court. He is an outstanding student and citizen dedicated to the memory of his grandparents who perished in a house fire. Woods wrote a prayer in their honor that he calls up on his phone before every game he plays.
Woods is a legend in South Carolina high school hoops, more so than former Tar Heel Raymond Felton from Latta. He was named the best 14-year-old in the country, and his highlight dunking video drew more than 14 million viewers. He once scored from behind the basket while flying out of bounds, another spectacular Youtube video worth watching.
William told Woods that he never recruited a player harder and took his prized glass-top box with the conference and national championship rings his teams won from Kansas to UNC, plus the NBA title ring that Michael Jordan had given Williams. Ol’ Roy is convinced that Woods’ game – explosiveness in pushing the ball down the court – is a perfect fit for UNC’s style of play, in much the same manner of Lawson, the former Tar Heel ACC Player of the Year.
So while all the attention goes 10 miles down the road to Durham, the Tar Heels will add to their veteran team a bullet-speed, deadly shooter and high-flying dunker whose name comes straight from the Bible. And Seventh Woods is coming straight to Chapel Hill.
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