The end of the Roy Williams era in Chapel Hill had every UNC basketball fan trembling at what the future was going to hold for the blue blood. The man who eventually won the job, and rightfully so, was Williams’ assistant coach, Hubert Davis.
Davis had been with the Tar Heels since 2012 as an assistant coach under Williams. During that tenure, he won the 2017 NCAA Tournament and made it to two Final Fours in nine years.
Armando Bacot, a former center for UNC, was a junior when the switch was made and became one of Davis’s captains alongside R.J. Davis. That season North Carolina went on to lose in the National Championship game.
However, Bacot recently came out in an interview dropping another coach’s name as a potential and attractive candidate for the UNC job if Davis didn’t win, and that coach was Wes Miller. Here is what he told Inside Carolina:
“Wes Miller was an attractive candidate. It was probably a little too early for him to go from head coach of UNCG to Carolina. For us, it was either Coach Davis or Coach Miller. That’s what made the most sense. It got crazy, too. People said maybe Brad Stevens. There were some crazy names thrown out there. Carolina is probably the best coaching job in college basketball. Carolina or Kansas, one of the two. Carolina keeps it in-house, so it had to be [Davis or Miller].”
Miller, at the time, was the head coach of UNC Greensboro and had been since 2011 getting promoted after spending a season there as an assistant coach.
Miller was a two-time SoCon Coach of the Year and tournament winner losing both of his NCAA Tournament games. After Davis was selected as the next coach, Miller eventually went on to take the head coaching job at Cincinnati.
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