Following North Carolina’s 81-77 win over Duke in the Final Four on Saturday, head coach [autotag]Hubert Davis[/autotag] became just the fifth coach ever to advance to the National Championship game in his first season.
Davis took over for Roy Williams at North Carolina after Williams’ retirement on April 1 last year, following a first-round loss to Wisconsin in the NCAA Tournament.
Coming into the Final Four, Davis also became the first head coach to reach the Final Four in his first season since Bill Guthridge, who also did so for North Carolina in 1998.
The Tar Heels finished the regular season 23-8 overall and 15-5 in ACC play and have now moved to 6-1 in postseason play. This comes after the Tar Heels were on the bubble in February and their NCAA Tournament hopes were hanging in the balance. But Davis and his team turned it around including two big wins against Duke while also beating Baylor and UCLA to get here.
Coach Davis is the 5th đđđđ first-year head coach to reach the final round of the NCAA Menâs Tournament.#CarolinaFamily | #MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/r7z2ir848t
— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) April 3, 2022
The job isn’t done, however.
Davis and North Carolina will face off against Kansas on Monday night for a chance to capture the Tar Heels’ seventh NCAA National Championship — and third since 2010.
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