WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2021 128 YEARS OF SERVING UNC STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 129, ISSUE 9 HUBERT DAVIS | LIFE & LEGACY BASKETBALL| WHAT’S NEXT Davis is a Hubert, hired. Keeping true born the head and bred coach in Tar Heel the family Davis was announced Chapel Hill has always on Monday as the next been home for the new men’s basketball coach leader of men’s basketball By Brian Keyes By Noah Monroe Senior Writer Staff Writer [email protected] [email protected] Was it ever going to be anyone else? Roy Williams said he wasn’t the Hubert Davis might not be the “right man” for the job anymore after prodigal son returning home that stepping down as head coach for the Roy Williams was 18 years ago, North Carolina men’s basketball but he’s as close as anyone alive, team on April 1. bar Michael Jordan, could be. For Four days later, director of a program that loves to keep things athletics Bubba Cunningham found in the family, there was no other who he said was the “right coach” choice — after all, in his parting to helm the blue-blooded program. message, Williams named him “the And who better than the man who finest young man I have ever known Williams asked to come onto his staff in my life.” nine years ago: Hubert Davis? A former player under Dean Smith In a press conference on Tuesday and 12-year NBA veteran before DTH/IRA WILDER in the Dean E. Smith Center, Davis spending nine years on Williams’ Hubert Davis, the new head coach of UNC men’s basketball, speaks at a press conference on April 6, 2021. “North Carolina was announced as the 20th coach in coaching staff, UNC announced on the storied history of the program is the standard. There’s ... nobody that’s an example of togetherness and family than here at North Carolina,“ said Davis. Monday that Davis would be the next — and the first Black man to walk head coach of the North Carolina the Smith Center’s Carolina Blue men’s basketball team, following sidelines as head coach. Williams’ retirement on April 1. Williams won 903 games as a He’s the first Black head coach in head coach, both at Kansas and program history. UNC, and won three national In his 33-year Hall of Fame championship during his 18 years career — the last 18 of which came leading the Tar Heels. Naturally, the at UNC — Williams won 903 person following in those footsteps games, the third-most in Division would feel an intense weight on their I men’s basketball history. He also shoulders — not Davis, though. won three national championships “Coach Williams is the greatest. in 2005, 2009 and 2017, all of which I’m Hubert,” he said. “As I said came at UNC. before, the only thing I need to do “I’ve learned more in the last is to do this job with my personality four days about the strength and and in my shoes.” bond and relationships and loyalty Davis brings with him a diverse and commitment of the Carolina resume. He played in the NBA for 12 family ... than I have in the last years, taking to the hardwood under 10 years,” director of athletics coaches like Pat Riley, Don Nelson Bubba Cunningham said at Davis’ and fellow UNC alumnus Larry introductory press conference on Brown, while competing against Tuesday. DTH ARCHIVE legendary players like Patrick Ewing, “I’ve talked to more than 20 Davis’ portrait as a player at UNC. The DTH/ABE LOVEN Dirk Nowitzki and UNC basketball’s incoming coach played under Dean UNC men’s basketball new head coach Hubert Davis greets people ahead SEE FORMER, PAGE 2 Smith for four seasons as a Tar Heel. of his appointment press conference at the Smith Center on April 6, 2021. SEE THE NEW, PAGE 3 COUNSELING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES | SEEKING SUPPORT Students petition for representation in CAPS CAPS doesn’t employ any AAPI- In mid-March, eight people were killed in three spa shootings in the Atlanta area. Six of the victims were identifying counselors. These Asian women. students hope to change that. Asian Americans across North Carolina have organized events to honor the victims of the Atlanta By Praveena Somasundaram shootings and support one another. But as Yang, Ikoma Audience Engagement Editor and Parker — along with fellow UNC medical school [email protected] students Colin Godwin and Rebecca Rubinstein and School of Social Work student Su Cho — searched for After hearing news of the recent Atlanta shootings, places of support specifically at UNC, they realized there UNC School of Medicine students Jennie Yang, Michelle were no AAPI-identifying counselors at the University’s Ikoma and Bao-Tran “BT” Parker, who all identify as Counseling and Psychological Services. Asian American, felt lost and alone. “I wanted to do something and then come to find They wanted community and support to debrief, out there aren’t any AAPI CAPS counselors,” Yang said. grieve and process what had happened, but they weren’t “That just made me feel like ‘Well, that’s something we sure where to find it. can change.’” Violence against Asian Americans has increased On March 23, the six students started a petition over the past year, particularly as a result of political calling for CAPS to expand its representation of AAPI- rhetoric surrounding COVID-19. For example, former identifying counselor staff. President Donald Trump used the term “Chinese “We strongly believe that this motion will protect virus” to describe coronavirus. AAPI students not only from suboptimal therapeutic DTH/SAURYA ACHARYA Stop AAPI Hate, an initiative that tracks and responds relationships but also the potential financial harm of to anti-Asian incidents, counted nearly 3,800 hate Fourth-year medical and public health student Bao-Tran “BT” Parker was one of incidents between March 2020 and February 2021. SEE CALLS, PAGE 12 the six students to start a petition to increase in AAPI representation at CAPS. Coach Williams is the greatest. I’m Hubert. HUBERT DAVIS 2 Wednesday, April 7, 2021 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel Established 1893 Former player Davis rises to head coach 128 years of editorial freedom Continued from Page 1 ANNA POGARCIC EDITOR!IN!CHIEF basketball players, former players, EDITOR"DAILYTARHEEL.COM coaches, and to a person they are selfless. Their value base, they have BRANDON STANDLEY a level of integrity, and a level of EDITORIAL MANAGING EDITOR selflessness that I’ve never seen. I MANAGING.EDITOR"DAILYTARHEEL.COM talked to many that were interested WILL MELFI in being the head coach. And at the DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR end of the conversation each and DIGITAL"DAILYTARHEEL.COM every one of them said, ‘I’d love to MAEVE SHEEHEY be the head coach, but if it’s not me, DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE I know you’ll do the right thing, and ENTERPRISE"DAILYTARHEEL.COM all I want is for Carolina to get the MADDIE ELLIS right coach.’ And we have found the UNIVERSITY EDITOR right coach.” UNIVERSITY"DAILYTARHEEL.COM With no prior head coaching experience, Davis follows in a SONIA RAO long tradition of the Tar Heels’ CITY & STATE EDITOR leader coming from the previous CITY"DAILYTARHEEL.COM head coach’s bench, either in a suit NATHAN WESLEY or in shorts. This dates back to ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR 1961, when Smith was promoted ARTS"DAILYTARHEEL.COM from assistant coach off of Frank ZACHARY CRAIN McGuire’s staff. SPORTS EDITOR “I wanted this job. I’ve always SPORTS"DAILYTARHEEL.COM wanted to be a head coach,” Davis PAIGE MASTEN said at his press conference. “I’ve OPINION EDITOR always wanted to be a head coach, OPINION"DAILYTARHEEL.COM only here. I’ve always wanted to DTH ARCHIVE JEFFREY SHUTTER walk the same road, the same path Hubert Davis (40) plays defense against Duke during his time as a college player at UNC under coach Dean Smith. DESIGN & GRAPHICS EDITOR as coach Smith and coach (Bill) second-team honors. During his analyst on ESPN, co-hosting the Known for being the driving DESIGN"DAILYTARHEEL.COM Guthridge and coach Williams. And I’m so excited and humbled time at UNC, the Tar Heels won College GameDay broadcast. engine behind UNC’s recruiting, his MORGAN PIROZZI and thankful and appreciative and two ACC Tournaments in 1989 and connections with former NBA players PHOTO EDITOR excited to be able to do with my 1991 and played in the 1991 Final … Always a Tar Heel helped him land five-star recruits like PHOTO"DAILYTARHEEL.COM own personality and in my own Four. By the time he graduated, Cole Anthony. Now taking over for KRISTA NICHOLS shoes. And I’m just very thankful for Davis was the school’s all-time Despite the cushy TV job, Davis Williams, Davis’ first job will be to COPY CHIEF everyone and I’m ready to go.” leader in 3-point shooting, with wanted to break into coaching. start working the recruiting trail to COPY"DAILYTARHEEL.COM a career mark of 43.5 percent, a When Jerod Haase left Williams’ keep the few incoming recruits the PRAVEENA SOMASUNDARAM Once a Tar Heel… record he still holds. staff to become the head coach at Tar Heels have for the 2021-2022 AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT EDITOR After being taken with the 20th UAB in 2012, a spot on the bench season — and make North Carolina ONLINE"DAILYTARHEEL.COM A native of Winston-Salem, pick in the 1992 NBA Draft by opened up for Davis to rejoin the a desirable location for the massive Davis came to UNC by way of Lake the New York Knicks, he spent Tar Heels.