TAR HEEL GENERAL MANAGER IS NO LONGER EMPLOYED AS A GENERAL MANAGER DUE TO…….
In the days following North Carolina men’s basketball’s loss to University of Virginia in the ACC tournament, Tar Heels head coach Hubert Davis said disappointment was the only way to describe the state of the program. Carolina didn’t earn an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels chose not to participate in any other postseason tournament, effectively ending their season at 20-13, 11-9 ACC after being named the No. 1 team at the beginning of the 2022-23 season. “Going into last year, we had hopes and expectations and dreams of what we could become,” Davis said. “And at the end of the day, for a number of reasons, we just didn’t reach our full potential.” Since then, Davis described the summer as nothing but work, and Thursday was the first time Davis spoke to the media since the end of the 2022-23 season. The Tar Heels have added five players from the transfer portal and three incoming freshmen, and retained a few key players including Armando Bacot and RJ Davis. Davis said since the new players have started practices in Chapel Hill, he hasn’t been surprised with how things have gone. Davis joked about how much time the players have spent off the court this summer, saying they spent every meal together, practice together and have down time together. “One of the things that I always tell everybody, in order to play for me, like the biggest thing for me is relationships,” Davis said. “And you can’t play for me unless you know me and I can’t coach you unless I know you. So the only way that you can know me and I can get to know you is for us to spend a ton of time together.” The most heralded incoming freshman is point guard Elliot Cadeau, who reclassified to 2023 to join the Tar Heels a year early. The five-star recruit played in the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup for Sweden and also won a championship with Link Academy before choosing to head to Chapel Hill. “He’s such a team guy. He just wants to win, wants to be a great teammate,” Davis said. “And that was the process in terms of him speeding up the process. And so I’m thankful that he’s here at Carolina; it’s been great.”
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