Hubert Davis: UNC basketball, Tar Heels ‘still have opportunity to turn this season around’

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UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis isn’t using his first team’s magical run as a way of motivating his fourth group of Tar Heels.

As Davis pointed out Monday on the ACC’s weekly coaches teleconference, fifth-year guard RJ Davis is the only UNC player remaining who experienced the Tar Heels’ sprint to the national championship game of the 2022 NCAA Tournament.

But as the current Tar Heels (13-10, 6-5 ACC) try to find their way in a season that is tracking toward missing March Madness, UNC’s fourth-year coach continues to communicate optimism to his team.

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“Irregardless of where we are now and people’s opinions, this team still has a chance to achieve and experience everything that this team wants to achieve and experience,” Hubert Davis said Monday morning.

“We have nine regular-season games left, we have the ACC Tournament. It’s all under our control, in terms of us playing the best that we can be. … We still have an opportunity to turn this season around. We need to focus on becoming the best team that we can possibly become and, at the end of the day, live with the results.”

The results, so far, have been underwhelming for UNC, which started the season as a top-10 team before falling out of the polls and onto the NCAA Tournament bubble.

Included in half (46) of the 91 bracket projections on Bracket Matrix, the Tar Heels are running out of opportunities to improve their resume. Currently 45th in the NET, UNC has a 1-9 record in Quadrant-1 games. When they missed the 2023 NCAA Tournament, the Heels finished 46th in the NET with a 1-9 record in Q1 opportunities.

UNC has a full week to prepare for Pitt on Saturday (4 p.m., ESPN), but the Tar Heels only have two Q1 chances across their final nine games: at Clemson (Feb. 10) and the…

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Author : The Fayetteville Observer

Publish date : 2025-02-03 16:45:00

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