After an 87-70 loss on the road at Duke, UNC basketball head coach Hubert Davis took to the stand to give his thoughts on the defeat.

Hubert Davis might’ve had a feeling it was over before it got started as North Carolina came out on the wrong end of an 87-70 final against Duke. The Tar Heels never got it going against their rival,

For UNC, the late collapse Tuesday night at Pitt was “kind of like the same movie over and over again,” RJ Davis said. The Tar Heels are becoming familiar with an uncomfortable new reality.

UNC is reeling. Duke is rolling. The blue-bloods are heading in opposite directions, and that puts even more pressure on UNC coach Hubert Davis.

Davis also receives an annual expense allowance of $50,000 to be used for entertainment and “other appropriate purposes to advance the program,” $500,000 annually as part of North Carolina’s multimedia rights agreement with Learfield Communications and $250,000 per year from the school’s deal with Nike.

North Carolina coach Hubert Davis chose to downplay the significance of his team's Saturday showdown at No. 2 Duke following the Tar Heels' dispiriting 73-65 loss at Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. The defeat was UNC's third in its last four games and raises the stakes of the upcoming rivalry game for a team that is scrambling to assemble an NCAA Tournament resume.

What is going on with the North Carolina Tar Heels? The once-proud program, one of the few true blue bloods in college basketball, lost once again on Tuesday ni

Hubert Davis has made a habit of highlighting the three most important areas for UNC basketball to be successful. Here's how the Tar Heels are doing.