Naturally one of the big topics of conversation at ACC Tipoff were the transitions at Duke and UNC. Hubert Davis is up first and while he’s clearly holding on to some UNC traditions - on the first day of practice he gave the same Daily Thought that has been given on the first day of practice every year since Dean Smith’s first season - he’s in a new era and he’s made it clear he will adapt.
He plans to run and run and then run some more but he also is going to modernize UNC’s system.
Predecessor Roy Williams did that in many ways, mostly by radically speeding up the traditional UNC approach.