College basketball, much like college football, is a big business. The pressure for immediate success is always on, and that’s especially true for the North Carolina Tar Heels.
This is a college basketball blueblood we’re talking about, so even though they just played in a national championship game in 2022, there was likely only one question asked to Hubert Davis before the Tar Heels let him go.
What have you done for us lately?
The answer to that question is two straight first-round exits in the NCAA Tournament, and that likely made it easy for the powers that be at North Carolina to pull the plug.
Davis, a former Tar Heel Star himself, was fired by North Carolina on Tuesday evening after five seasons as head coach.
