Hubert Davis doesn’t want to belabor the point, but to say he’s excited about the upcoming college basketball season would be a severe understatement, to say the least.

“I had always grown up a North Carolina fan, my uncle, Walter Davis, was an All-American here in the mid ’70s and I remember being 4 or 5 years old coming to his games,” Davis says. “I grew up having dreams of playing on [the] Smith Center floor and to think that I had an opportunity to play here and, after I played in the NBA, have an opportunity to coach here and for the last six and half months I’m the head coach here. It’s been a lot of fun.”