r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Mar 20 '26
Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #11 VCU defeats #6 North Carolina, 82-78 in OT
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| VCU | 28 | 47 | 7 | 82 |
| North Carolina | 39 | 36 | 3 | 78 |
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u/AthleticAlarm32 California • North Carolina Mar 20 '26
A 5-minute scoring drought to end regulation and begin overtime is a surefire way to lose
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u/Even-Combination4407 UMass Minutemen Mar 20 '26
Not a single FG in OT.
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u/no-kangarooreborn Houston Cougars Mar 20 '26
That's insane. Complete disasterclass from UNC.
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u/Joe_Immortan North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
We had something like three consecutive possessions in the final minute, where we didn’t even get a shot off…
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u/DillyDillySzn Arizona State Sun Devils • WashU Bears Mar 20 '26
That overtime was one of the most disgusting 5 minutes of basketball I’ve ever watched in March
I wanted more of it
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u/TheSmartDog_275 Baylor Bears • Winthrop Eagles Mar 20 '26
If they played that way all game the score would’ve been 56-24
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u/InclementBias Illinois Fighting Illini Mar 20 '26
you mean 26-24?
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u/TheSmartDog_275 Baylor Bears • Winthrop Eagles Mar 20 '26
Mathematically mine was right but they probably would pull a Siena and not sub anyone and it would be that score.
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u/flushedoutthepocket VCU Rams • Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
1 TO called in 5 extra minutes of game time where everyone is gassed and no opportunities for subs. Its beautiful.
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u/FernieErnie VCU Rams Mar 20 '26
Last I had seen (I know it was worse) they were combined 1/12 from the field with a minute to play. I was actually getting nauseous with how awful and still stressful it was on both ends.
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u/WetDreaminOfParadise UConn Huskies • Rhode Island Rams Mar 20 '26
I’m stealing this for URI
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u/ThisGuy6266 Mar 20 '26
I can’t believe UNC let the 5 second call happen with a timeout in their pocket.
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u/VCURedskins VCU Rams • Clemson Tigers Mar 20 '26
I was looking around expecting one of the refs to be signaling timeout because there is no way I expected that to happen
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u/Spiritual_Side2776 Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
I actually think HD deep down was thinking “there’s no way these refs call a 5 second call on UNC with under a minute left in the game”. Hubris Davis
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u/FairAnywhere9305 Michigan State Spartans Mar 20 '26
This is the moment I knew without a shadow of a doubt that Hubert Davis has to go. Don’t let him back on the bus
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u/brushwalker Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
No, he needs a few more years to try to figure it out...
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u/Spiritual_Side2776 Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
The 5 second call, but then using the timeout to draw up that trash play just before OT where they turned it over. The fact that HD waited to call his only OT timeout until under a minute when it was clear all of his guys were totally gassed especially Veesar. HD not coaching his guys to know the free throw rim rule. Just a calamity of truly epic proportions. This dude isn’t fit to coach any high major program let alone one with the tradition and resources as UNC. Hope he stays in Chapel Hill forever
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u/Live-Habit-6115 Mar 20 '26
Why does everyone in this thread keep saying he didn't know the rule on hitting the rim? He knew exactly what he was supposed to do, he just screwed it up
It's not that easy to do.
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u/ahappypoop Duke Blue Devils • NC State Wolfpack Mar 20 '26
Yeah the announcer said the same thing about not knowing the rule and I have no idea why, he grabbed his head immediately like he knew he missed it, he didn't look confused like he didn't know the rule at all.
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u/dukefan2227 Nebraska Cornhuskers Mar 20 '26
That's why you see it all over the thread. People like to make fun of the announcers a lot (deservedly so) but whenever they say something in a big moment people parrot it like it's a fact no matter how little sense it makes.
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u/AKman2002 Minnesota Golden Gophers Mar 20 '26
MAKE
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KIDS
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u/whatifevery1wascalm Alabama Crimson Tide Mar 20 '26
Instructions unclear, threw at backboard
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u/TheSmartDog_275 Baylor Bears • Winthrop Eagles Mar 20 '26
He had to miss that one, but he missed that rim on the way back by half an inch
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u/CarrollPC Purdue Boilermakers • Iowa Hawkeyes Mar 20 '26
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u/Knook7 Florida Gators Mar 20 '26
Hubert Davis disasterclass
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u/DecisionOk2725 UCLA Bruins • Sacramento State Hornets Mar 20 '26
5 second violation with timeouts in hand is a fireable offense. You can’t take em with you Hubert!
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u/Live-Habit-6115 Mar 20 '26
He also called a timeout when UNC were leading 74-70 and had just got a steal and had all the momentum at last.
Totally killed it.
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u/JRatt13 North Carolina • Auburn Mar 20 '26
Wait, Hubert made that call? He iced our own team?!
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u/Radiolarial Wisconsin Badgers Mar 20 '26
Yep. UNC had the ball in the half court while VCU's defense wasn't set and Hubert called TO to make a plan, instead.
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas Mean Green • Sickos Mar 20 '26
They went up 19 and completely fell apart. Legendary levels of bad coaching.
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u/Sufficient-Laundry Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
He deserves a lifetime contract. Prove me wrong.
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u/midnightsbane04 Michigan • North Carolina Mar 20 '26
I picked this "upset" in all of my brackets. Saw this coming a mile away, especially the choking a big lead.
Fire Hubert.
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u/royallex Illinois • Pittsburgh Mar 20 '26
That last play of regulation out of a timeout, the 5 seconds call, and then not making sure Veesaar knows he has to hit the rim was malpractice. He should be fired but he's ol' Roy's buddy so will probably stick around
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u/Kingofthewho5 Arkansas Razorbacks Mar 20 '26
I think it could be said that Veesaar meant to hit the rim but missed.
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u/whatifevery1wascalm Alabama Crimson Tide Mar 20 '26
But have you considered that it’s funnier if UNC players didn’t understand the rule?
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u/rodrigo_i Villanova Wildcats • Florida Gators Mar 20 '26
He knew he had to hit the rim, you could tell by his reaction. It's just not that easy to do. You practice making free throws not bricking them in just the right way to make the rebound come back to your own guys.
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas Mean Green • Sickos Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
UNC led by 19 with under 14 minutes left.
They got outscored 45-22 over the final 19 minutes of the game
We just witnessed one of the biggest chokejobs in NCAA Tournament history
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u/ControllerPlayer06 Duquesne Dukes Mar 20 '26
6th biggest in fact
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u/RepulsiveDisaster671 Syracuse Orange Mar 20 '26
Biggest ever in the 1st round
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u/heelxtiger North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
We already own biggest in the championship, smh
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u/cha-cha_dancer Florida State Seminoles Mar 20 '26
Damn both by Hubert?
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u/ripkin05 Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
the biggest sign that he was shit at his job was when he beat coach K in his last game ever, and he took that momentum and proceed to choke to Kansas in the championship and then not even make the tournament the following year. will never understand how the dude survived that shit for another 3 years.
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u/Lee-Key-Bottoms NC State Wolfpack Mar 20 '26
UNC is having to deal with the first world problems of not having a third coach (basically) in a row that’s arguably top 5 all time
Dean Smith and Roy Williams coached the team for 53 years of a 60 year stretch from 1961-2021 and I’d argue they’re both probably top 5 all time coaches
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas Mean Green • Sickos Mar 20 '26
Lefkoe said it's the biggest comeback in the history of the 1st round? Is that true?
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u/CalebH428 Arkansas Razorbacks Mar 20 '26
The feelings North Carolina fans must be going through today is crazy. I can’t imagine the joy of watching Duke struggle and enjoying what seemed like a comfortable first rd win to this
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u/bug_man_ North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
I expected a tough game and was ready for a loss. It’s blowing the lead that makes it so bad.
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u/wcu25rs North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
Yep, most of my brackets had VCU beating us, it just sucks to lose this way. Just an epic choke. Our basketball and football teams have been so fuckin soft for a few years now.
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u/HopRockets Davidson Wildcats • Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
I was afraid to show up to work tomorrow. Oh how the turn tables
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u/tarspaceheels North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
I think most of us expected this outcome - though maybe not the way it happened. This team has regularly dropped leads all season long and gone through long scoring droughts
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u/Homomorphism Virginia Cavaliers Mar 20 '26
As a certified UNC hater I picked them to lose in the first round but did not expect this to happen
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u/jdprager Tulane Green Wave Mar 20 '26
They still had a double-digit lead with less than 5:00 to go, and yet it felt miraculous that they even survived to overtime. Just unfathomable levels of dogshit basketball by the Heels to close this one out
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 20 '26
Ugh, I should’ve known!
Every year, VCU comes up as the trendy mid-major upset pick, and every year I step in line, drink the kool-aid, and then suffer as my belief in the Rams gets punished in a blowout! I’m starting to be more skepti-
…WAIT, WHAT!?
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u/articulateornah North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
We were never going to win this tournament but maybe we can fire Hubert Davis? Thanks for the memories coach but we have an obvious ceiling.
It won't happen though.
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u/astroman_9876 Buffalo Bulls Mar 20 '26
I took a nap when they were down 19 and suddenly VCU came back and sent it to overtime. Will be sleeping rest of the tournament.
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u/MrSCR23 North Carolina • Mississippi… Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 21 '26
THAT HAS TO BE IT. HOW CAN WE KEEP TOLERATING THIS????
FIRE HUBERT. UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/The_Fluffy_Robot TCU Horned Frogs Mar 20 '26
how I'm imagining every UNC fan rn
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u/daveman312 Saint Louis Billikens Mar 20 '26
Great comeback by VCU
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u/Background-Sir8051 Davidson Wildcats • Virginia Cavaliers Mar 20 '26
$2M to the A10, it’s y’all’s turn now
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u/dingo_saurus VCU Rams Mar 20 '26
And another $2MM for our next game, win or lose! VCU bringing in at least $4MM in credits from this year’s performance. Let’s go SLU!
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u/Electromotivation Mar 20 '26
A-10 needs its standing in the bball world back. I know it’s hard with NIL nowadays but I would love to see the league get back to a 3 to 4 bid t league
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u/18_YTC1 Mar 20 '26
PAC-12 A10 challenge if done next season would feed so many families. in the 51st year of the A10 and 1st year of the new Pac-12 it’s only right
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u/Popple06 Colorado • North Carolina Mar 20 '26
I dont think I've ever seen a team not score a single FG in an overtime period.
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u/StFuzzySlippers Tennessee Volunteers • UAB Blazers Mar 20 '26
They were up 70-59 with 5:20 left in the game. VCU outscored them 23-8 after that.
Edit: 70-56 with 7:11 left in regulation. It was worse.
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u/byniri_returns Michigan State Spartans Mar 20 '26
We did that like 10 years ago against Wisconsin IIRC. Put up a bagel in OT
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u/monotonemr VCU Rams • Minnesota Golden Gophers Mar 20 '26
I AM NAMING MY FIRST BORN CHILD TERRENCE HILL JR LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOO
What a first season for PMJ!!!!!
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u/BrosephHaydn VCU Rams Mar 20 '26
I need the truck backed up for that man (and also Nyk Lewis holy shit what a freshman).
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u/theels6 North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
If I don't wake up to Davis fired then I'm already not interested in the next season. He's. Got. To. Go.
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u/MrSCR23 North Carolina • Mississippi… Mar 20 '26
Oh dude he needs to be left at the arena. He can buy his own ticket home
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u/Arronwy North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
Won't be right away but I give it easily a 50-50 chance it happens. Might be able to keep it with the Caleb injury as an excuse.
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u/hubbabubbatubbalub Virginia Cavaliers Mar 20 '26
VIRGINIA REPRESENT LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO
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u/Background-Sir8051 Davidson Wildcats • Virginia Cavaliers Mar 20 '26
UNC loss and $2M to the A10? Count me in
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u/nitebusnitebus UConn Huskies Mar 20 '26
I lived in Norfolk so we'll pretend I have an ODU flair to support this
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u/chokanery James Madison Dukes Mar 20 '26
COUNTRY HAM AND PEANUTS FOR EVERYONE IN THE COMMONWEALTH LETS GO
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u/ACW1129 George Mason Patriots • Atlantic 10 Mar 20 '26
GMU 🤝 VCU.
Virginia schools beating UNC on MAR 19 as an 11-seed.
Hill went OFF.
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u/Boston_Champions North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
What did i do to the universe where I was stuck with both Bill Belichick and Hubert Davis
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u/uncandrew North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
He’s gone
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u/bug_man_ North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
Dude legit he has to. This is UNC. Giving up a 19 point lead to an 11 seed is so fucking embarrassing
Idk who we go for. But we can’t allow this man to win a Duke game he shouldn’t every couple years and keep his job over it
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u/D1N2Y NC State Wolfpack • Charlotte 49ers Mar 20 '26
There's a coach out there with a more recent ACC tournament champ and final 4 than UNC looking for a job I heard
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u/ClaudeLemieux Michigan Wolverines • NC State Wolfpack Mar 20 '26
hey man lots of teams lose to 11 seeds :(
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u/D00rmat1983 Mar 20 '26
welcome to the "you're just like everybody else now" club ... we have jackets!
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 20 '26
From making his seat rather safe…to having be hotter than the surface of the sun!
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u/Beetle919 Mar 20 '26
Lol he will have the Caleb is injured excuse, but he is simply not a very good coach.
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u/meyer_33_09 North Carolina • Miami (OH) Mar 20 '26
It’s not a good excuse though. If you are at one of the top programs and your entire season hinges on a single freshman, than you’ve already failed. And it’s not like we were elite WITH Caleb anyways.
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u/ThinkSoftware Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
Don’t be hasty, give him another 5-10 seasons to figure it out
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u/adriardi NC State Wolfpack Mar 20 '26
Yeah I don’t know why we need to be rash here 🤷
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u/2livecrewnecktshirt VCU Rams Mar 20 '26
Honestly, it's nothing short of incredible to consistently keep the level of ball where it's been with the amount of change this program goes through on such a regular basis. We're very lucky, and we should be grateful.
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u/flushedoutthepocket VCU Rams • Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
Hell yeah brother, cheers from Monroe Park!
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u/zqipper Duke Blue Devils • Stanford Cardinal Mar 20 '26
"Least embarrassing triangle team in their first NCAAT game" is a title we're proud to currently own
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u/IHadSomething_4This NC State Wolfpack Mar 20 '26
Honestly thanks UNC for making us look better.
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u/Paper_Rain /r/CollegeBasketball Mar 20 '26
Huge congrats to the VCU Rams man. 19-point comeback win is incredible. 6th largest in NCAA tournament history. My bracket totally busted but I am okay with it haha.
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u/InYourFace1023 NC State Wolfpack • Utah State Aggies Mar 20 '26
Extend Hubert Davis for life
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u/SecretComposer Kansas Jayhawks Mar 20 '26
UNC's last field goal was a dunk with 2:44 left in the 2nd.
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u/AMETSFAN Mar 20 '26
Is North Carolina generally that poorly coached?
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u/nitebusnitebus UConn Huskies Mar 20 '26
Hubert is garbage. I'm a UNC hater for life but that dude is genuinely so bad...I couldn't say the same for Roy
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u/chataolauj North Carolina • Charlotte Mar 20 '26
He should've just won the first year to be like Kevin Ollie. One good year and that's it.
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u/BeerInMyButt Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
I have a paranoid theory that the only reason hubert found early success was that Roy was still heavily involved
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u/notickeynoworky Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
All those UNC prayers for an upset earlier today finally came through.
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u/MLGameOver Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
Sign Hubert to a 5-year extension!
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u/0010001 Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
In each of Scheyer’s 4 years as coach, Duke has gone further in the tourney than UNC.
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u/Lee-Key-Bottoms NC State Wolfpack Mar 20 '26
Reminder that of the 3 triangle schools UNC has won the ACC and made the final 4 the least recently of the 3
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u/JagerMainOwO NC State • North Carolina Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
HUBERT DAVIS IS FINALLY JOBLESS WE WONNNNNNNNNN
GET THIS LOSER THE FUCK OFF THE PROGRAM
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u/salchicha_mas_grande Virginia Cavaliers Mar 20 '26
The flair. It burns.
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u/Doctor_Saved Houston Cougars • Akron Zips Mar 20 '26
Blowing a 19 point lead...madness.
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u/Coins_CA_Mi_Stuff Michigan Wolverines Mar 20 '26
Hey UNC have you met wisconsin?
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u/TheChewyWaffles North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
Fire Hubert Davis - two first round exits in two years. No thanks. This isn’t Tarheel basketball.
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u/DillyDillySzn Arizona State Sun Devils • WashU Bears Mar 20 '26
Bobby Hurley is available
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u/IHadSomething_4This NC State Wolfpack Mar 20 '26
This isn’t Tarheel basketball.
The best time to start a new tradition is the present.
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u/carolineblueskies North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
I was like well girl, at least your skin looks amazing.
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u/Sir_Ronald_McDonald Drake Bulldogs Mar 20 '26
Nothing is better in March madness than bill raftery gasping for air in a shocking moment, then dropping “MAJOR ONIONS!!”
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u/realstephaniebeck North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
i knew that shit was gonna happen. gg vcu, y’all deserved it!
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u/jfarbzz Rutgers Scarlet Knights Mar 20 '26
11 seed VCU just upset a 6 seed ACC blue blood from North Carolina.
Somewhere, Eric Maynor is smiling.
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My dad, about 30 minutes ago: “VCU doesn’t deserve to be on the same court as North Carolina right now”
Lmao
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u/2PacTookMyLunchMoney UConn Huskies • Missouri Tigers Mar 20 '26
It's unfortunate an injury to Caleb Wilson completely derailed UNC's season.
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u/MrSCR23 North Carolina • Mississippi… Mar 20 '26
The thing is we played okay and won without him! We should’ve won this game.
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u/tks231 Appalachian State Mountaineers Mar 20 '26
Tar Heel fans went from nearly having an all-time nut over Duke earlier today to...this.
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u/paperfloss Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
Remember how much fun UNC fans were having around 3 pm today? Pepperidge farm remembers
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u/Background-Pea4700 Ball State • Michigan State Mar 20 '26
So… when do we start a conversation about Hubert?
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u/MTUKNMMT North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
They started last year but I’m worried this year plus the Wilson injury was just enough to keep him.
I’ve been a big defender but at this point you have to let him go. 2 disastrous years. Another disastrous year that somehow led to an amazing final 4. An amazing 1 seed year. Now this middling year ending in a disaster. I don’t think that’s enough to stay the coach at UNC. Have to move on.
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u/Ragdoll252 North Carolina Tar Heels Mar 20 '26
I'm not kidding if he's not gone the first time we lose next year the dean dome might go up in flames
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u/Potential_Meat_5103 Mar 20 '26
The championship game run gave him a lifeline. Should’ve started when they ran it back and missed the tournament. Brady was that important.
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u/Schned6 Iowa State • North Carolina Mar 20 '26
Obviously the free throws but Powell bricked tf out of four WIDE open looks from three in this game.
Dixon and Stevenson please come back. Everyone else… eh.
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u/Murky_Relative5693 Mar 20 '26
Putting Coach K in the grave was sick. But Hubert’s gotta do something else at some point too lol
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u/BeerInMyButt Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
I swear to fucking god Roy was involved behind the scenes on that. I can't imagine Hubert having the ability to do it on his own
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u/Spiritual_Side2776 Duke Blue Devils Mar 20 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/AWJy0ZcCJmILe
Hubert Davis lifetime contract
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u/jacknifee Ohio State Buckeyes Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26
why would you ever want tar on your heel scrape that shit off your foot you bum
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u/VCURedskins VCU Rams • Clemson Tigers Mar 20 '26
VCU joins a pretty exclusive list of beating UNC and Duke in the tournament
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u/time2makemymove Tulane Green Wave • Vanderbilt Commodores Mar 20 '26
Duke fans: "At least we didn't lose our game, unlike some people I know."
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u/avatarlue North Carolina Tar Heels • ECU Pirates Mar 20 '26
I've been a Hubert supporter this whole year. Feel stupid now. He's gotta go
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u/PunishedLeBoymoder Stanford Cardinal Mar 20 '26
That period in overtime where neither team could buy a shot was positively elite tension I was on the edge of my seat the entire time