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#UNC coach Hubert Davis after loss at Miami
Feb 11, 2026
#UNC coach Hubert Davis after loss at Miami
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How early, did you sense that maybe your
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guys were out of sorts a little bit
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tonight? What was the challenge of
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trying to get them in sort of
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What do you mean out of sorts?
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Just they didn't didn't seem like they
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had great energy early, like there's the
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proverbial hangover from the other day.
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Just there was some disjoint.
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I I just, you know, respectfully, you
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know, disagree with the hangover from
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yesterday. I I just I don't believe in
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that and that wasn't um uh but you are
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right. you know, the the the energy
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effort, um, loose balls up in the air on
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the ground, Miami was getting them. And
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so, uh, rebounding something that we've
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talked about every day and, uh, talked
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specifically over the last five games
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heading into in this game that we've got
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to be better rebounding the basketball.
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And so, we got our rebounded, I think,
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by six. You know, we talked about taking
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care of the basketball. Um, and not
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just, you know, just turnovers, but also
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shot selection. I count that as
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turnovers. And I think, you know, just a
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small, uh, discipline and detailed
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plays. I I think that's what you're
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talking about. Out of sorts, that
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that's, you know, that wasn't there
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consistently today.
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A quick follow up on that. Looked like
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you tried a lot of things tonight,
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trying to find some stuff that worked.
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What was the challenge in trying to find
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things that work?
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Well,
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what needed to work was rebounding and
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making those toughness plays. I It's,
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you know, it's not about miss shots. Um,
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it's it's all about, and I've said this
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to you guys before, it's about defense
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rebounding and taking care of the
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basketball. So, in the first half, I
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mean, I think they shot 58%. And we were
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only down by three at the half. You
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know, we played better defensively in
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the second half. Um, but rebounding the
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basketball is huge. I mean, uh, off of
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free throws, um, just, u turnover, shot
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selection, just things that, um, against
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a good team in this league on the road,
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um, you know, you just can't make that
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many mistakes.
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No, with an RL, somebody please shut
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their phone off.
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Hubert, on top of um, the rebounding, I
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know they had 46 points in his paint as
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well. What do you feel like allowed them
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to have so much success down low?
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Well, I mean, that's what they want to
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do. I mean, you know, they've got um
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guys that can score in the post. They've
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got guards that can get downhill.
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They've got lobb threats. Um
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they have the personnel to be able to do
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it. We do, too. We want to dominate
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points in the paint also through post
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and penetration, offensive rebounds.
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They just did a better job of it uh
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against us tonight.
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All right. Well, then Spencer,
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what is Kale situation with his left
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hand?
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There is no situation. I mean, he's
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heavily wrapped. I mean, did that imper
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his ability when he came back?
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Not to my knowledge.
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Spencer, you
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talk about defense. Did a better job in
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the second half defensively against
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Miami, but you guys, I think, shot 26%
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on the second half. What did Miami do
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defensively that kind of challenged you
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guys down the stretch?
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Well, no, they did the same things. I
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mean, they, you know, went back for man
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and zone and um we just um
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um I felt like we settled instead of
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getting the ball. I don't know how many
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free throws we took, how many we took in
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the second half, but you know, you know,
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we like to dominate points in the paint
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as well. And um how you do that, how you
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get to the free throw line is is, you
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know, shots towards the basket. and we
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just couldn't generate and find
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consistency to be able to do that
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whether it was from our bigs or our
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guards attacking a basket
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here in the second round. Now, Shelby,
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uh coach, did uh did Miami do anything
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better or surprise you than than what
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you expected from them? And what do you
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think this game means for the Miami
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team?
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I don't know what it means. I'm the head
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coach for the University of North
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Carolina.
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What does it show about the Miami team?
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The way they
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I answer questions on the University of
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North Carolina. That that's my job. Um
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but um you know Miami is a good team and
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they played better than us tonight and
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they're deserving of the win.
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Shelby,
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just I think combined six points for
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Derek and Seth, was there anything um
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just about my defense that was
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particularly trouble or anything that
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maybe accounted for?
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No. No. I mean I I you know I said
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before that um you know from a defensive
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standpoint they um you know switched up
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from man to zone um you know made or
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miss basket and just different stuff the
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same it was in the first half when we
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shot 50 something%. And so it was
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nothing different and uh we just um
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couldn't find a rhythm offensively
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getting to the basket, getting points in
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the paint, which allows us to generate
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those good threes that um allow us to
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shoot a high percentage of and um just
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didn't play well enough in the second
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half to be able to pull away the win.
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Last one back left. when your guards are
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struggling to get in a rhythm and take
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the shots that you want, what's kind of
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the key from you and the staff to like
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unlock them taking the shots you want
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and how much of that is just you guys
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getting the bigs in positions to succeed
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and open up things for them?
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Yeah, I mean I think the focus on the
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rhythm of the offense is is off the
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mark. Um, you know, shots uh go in
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shots,
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you know, um sometimes you make them,
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sometimes you don't. um that is not a
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concern to me. Um it's a stuff that u
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shows up every day and that's defense
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rebounding and taking care of the
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basketball and those are the boxes that
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we didn't definitively check today.
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Last one. Thank you. Players will be
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available.
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