The Hubert Davis Era As Head Coach Of North Carolina Is Beginning In Chapel Hill As North Carolina Host Elizabeth City State For Exhibition Game Tonight
On April 5, 2021 Hubert Davis was named the Head Coach Of The North Carolina Men’s Basketball Program!
Why?
Because Roy Williams retired!
In Hubert Davis’s nine seasons on the bench with Williams, the Tar Heels played in eight NCAA Tournaments, advanced to the Final Four and national championship games in 2016 and 2017 and won the NCAA title in 2017. The Tar Heels went 228-95, including 107-60 in Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season play, winning the regular-season ACC title in 2016, 2017 and 2019 and an ACC Tournament title in 2016.
Carolina earned three No. 1 seeds and a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament in those nine seasons. The four-year run from 2016-19 was the best four-year NCAA seed average in UNC basketball history.
Hubert Davis helped coach 14 players who have played in the NBA, including 10 first-round draft picks – Cole Anthony, Tony Bradley, Reggie Bullock, P.J. Hairston, Justin Jackson, Brice Johnson, Cameron Johnson, Nassir Little, Day’Ron Sharpe and Coby White.
Brice Johnson and Jackson were consensus first-team All-America and first-team All-ACC selections; Jackson was the 2017 ACC Player of the Year and Cameron Johnson earned first-team All-ACC honors.
Jackson and Cameron Johnson rank one-two in UNC single-season history in three-pointers. Johnson transferred to UNC from Pittsburgh and blossomed into the 11th pick in the first round of the 2019 NBA Draft.
Davis also coached Marcus Paige, who earned first-team All-America honors as a sophomore in 2014 and set the UNC career record with 299 three-pointers, and Joel Berry II, the 2017 Final Four Most Outstanding Player.
Anthony set the ACC record for most points in a college debut and had the second-highest single-season scoring average by a Tar Heel freshman.
White set the UNC single-season record for most threes by a freshman and became the seventh pick in the first round of the 2019 NBA Draft.
“according to Hubert Davis biography on goheels.com”
Tonight the Hubert Davis era is beginning on the sideline in Chapel Hill as North Carolina who is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference host Elizabeth City State who is a member of the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association.
North Carolina has yet to play an exhibition while Elizabeth City State already has as they played NC State one of North Carolina’s tobacco road rivals on Monday in North Carolina’s state capital.
In Elizabeth City State’s inaugural exhibition game verses NC State Elizabeth City State lost by a score of 68-87!
Though, Elizabeth City State showed that they could hang with the best of them and be competitive in conference play after last night's 87-68 loss to the Wolfpack of North Carolina State University in the first of two highly anticipated exhibition games to launch the 2021-22 season.
Elizabeth City State eft it all on the court from start to finish; ECSU's returning core proved to be solid early in the game. Senior guard Gabriel Kirkendoll (Jacksonville, NC) scored the first basket for the Vikings, followed by a 3-pointer from graduate student Zac Hobbs (Maysville, NC), making it a 6-5 NC State lead at the 15:49 mark. Elizabeth City State trailed NC State 50-31 at the half.
“according to an article on ecsuvikings.com”
Tip off is set for 7:30pm from the Dean E. Smith Center!
The game is going to be televised on ACC Network Extra!