North Carolina HC Hubert Davis will not return next season, per report

A changing of the guard is going to take place in Chapel Hill.

According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the North Carolina Tar Heels are set to part ways with head coach Hubert Davis after this season, where the Tar Heels failed to make it past the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Davis coached for five seasons at North Carolina, going 125-54 in that time.

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The final nail in the coffin for Davis was in the first round of March Madness, where North Carolina blew a 19-point lead to the VCU Rams, the biggest blown lead that the tournament has seen since 2018. This loss to VCU meant North Carolina failed to reach the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament in three of the last four seasons.

Per ESPN’s Rece Davis, Hubert was fired by North Carolina, which makes it so he is owed $5.3 million, per his contract.

Reporting over the weekend from Thamel suggested that an “orchestrated resignation” was more likely, with the two deciding whether to part ways. Apparently, that was not the case.

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Going forward, the search for a new coach at North Carolina is expected to be an intriguing one. With the commitment to NIL and the prominence that the Tar Heels have held in the college basketball world over the last half-century, this will become arguably the most prominent job opening of the cycle, and there will be some high-profile names involved.

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