North Carolina Is Hosting Loyola Maryland To Open The Season Tonight In Chapel Hill

North Carolina is hosting Loyola Maryland to open the season tonight in Chapel Hill!

North Carolina is ranked 19th in the preseason AP Top 25 poll!

North Carolina is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference!

Loyola Maryland is a member of the Patriot League!

North Carolina and Loyola Maryland previous matched up came on December 31, 1947!

74 years ago!

North Carolina won by a score of 64-47 while Loyola Maryland lost by a score of 47-64!

In 1947 Tom Scott was the Head Coach of North Carolina who then was a member of the Southern Conference.

“according to coaches database.com”

Now Hubert Davis is the Head Coach of North Carolina!

Why?

Because Roy Williams who was the Head Coach retired in April!

Hubert Davis was named the 20th head coach of the University of North Carolina men’s basketball program on April 5, 2021. Davis became the fourth former Tar Heel player to become UNC’s head coach and the first Black head coach in Carolina men’s basketball history.

Hubert Davis played for Dean Smith at Carolina from 1988-92 and was an assistant coach on Roy Williams’ UNC staff from 2012-21. He played a key role coaching, recruiting and scouting and was the head coach of the UNC junior varsity program, a position Williams held before becoming the head coach at Kansas in 1988, for six seasons from 2013-19.

In his 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.

North 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.

“according to Hubert Davis biography on goheels.com”

In 1947 Emil “ Lefty Reitz was the Head Coach of Loyola Maryland

“according to coachesdatabase.com”

Tip off is set for 7:00pm from the Dean E. Smith Center!

The game is going to be televised on ACC Network!