Experts discuss Nate Oats as potential UNC basketball coaching hire
Is Nate Oats a serious candidate for the head coaching vacancy in Chapel Hill with UNC basketball? College hoops experts weigh in.
The college basketball coaching cycle got a lot more hectic on Tuesday when one of the sport's biggest blue blood programs officially parted ways with its head coach. Five days after a stunning exit from the NCAA Tournament, the North Carolina Tar Heels are moving on from coach Hubert Davis. UNC blew a 19-point lead in the second half to No.
11 seed VCU in Greenville, South Carolina, on Thursday. It's the largest blown lead the tournament has seen since 2018. North Carolina's 82-78 overtime loss marked the program's second straight first-round exit.
Davis, a former UNC player and assistant coach, guided the Tar Heels to a surprise appearance in the national championship game during his first season in 2022, but UNC reached the second week of the tournament only one other time. That was in 2024 when North Carolina went up against Nate Oats' Alabama Crimson Tide in the Sweet 16. UNC entered the tournament as a No.
1 seed after winning the ACC championship. But the Tar Heels fell to Alabama when the Crimson Tide rallied from an eight-point halftime deficit for an 89-87 win behind Grant Nelson's 24-point and 12 rebounds in Los Angeles. Alabama eventually reached the first Final Four for the first time in men's basketball history.
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