{"id":71734,"date":"2025-08-10T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71734\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T06:12:09","slug":"top-40-recruit-billy-white-iii-commits-to-smu-reclassifies-to-2025-tar-heel-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/71734\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-40 recruit Billy White III commits to SMU, reclassifies to 2025 &#8211; Tar Heel Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nPosted Aug 9, 2025<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nBilly White III, a four-star small forward in the 2026 class, has committed to SMU and has reclassified into the 2025 class, he told Rivals. He becomes one of the highest-ranked players to ever commit to the program. 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One of the players to emerge in&#8230;<br \/>Fri Aug 8, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160256.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">List of scheduled basketball official visits for UNC, other ACC schools<\/a><br \/>North Carolina Basketball Scheduled Official Visits \u2013 Anthony Thompson, No. 9, 6-7 wing (August 22); Deron Rippey Jr, No. 17, 6-2 point guard (August 31)&#8230;<br \/>Fri Aug 8, 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheeltimes.com\/article160252.aspx\" class=\"ArticleLink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 1 2027 basketball recruit Babatunde Oladotun reclassifying to 2026<\/a><br \/>Babatunde Oladotun, the No. 1 high school basketball recruit in the ESPN class of 2027, is reclassifying to the class of 2026 and will graduate&#8230;<br \/>Thu Aug 7, 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KSR-2025-07-16T171349.855.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Top-40 recruit Billy White III commits to SMU, reclassifies to 2025\" title=\"Top-40 recruit Billy White III commits to SMU, reclassifies to 2025\" onerror=\"this.style.display = 'none'\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0; overflow:hidden;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Posted Aug 9, 2025&#13; Billy White III, a four-star small forward in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-71734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}