Hubert Davis explains transfer portal approach with one open scholarship

Hubert Davis picked up one impact transfer last offseason when Oklahoma’s Brady Manek committed to North Carolina. In the end, Manek became one of the best pickups in the nation. The senior averaged a career-high 15.1 points per game, 6.1 rebounds and shot 40.1% from deep.

With one scholarship left on his roster, Davis says he wants to use it for a similar, fitting pickup for his roster.

“You can really help your team through the transfer portal. I couldn’t imagine where our team would be without Brady. He just fit,” said Davis to the media on Wednesday. “Not only was his game a perfect thing that we needed out there on the floor. His personality in the locker room was awesome.”

With a year under his belt, Davis is now able to have his own approach on the recruiting trail. Last season, he could only promise recruits like Manek what his program would look like. Now he can show them what his vision is in Chapel Hill.

“One of the things that I think is a beneficial is like last year when you’re talking to recruits, you were telling them how we were going to play games and what it was going to look like. We couldn’t give them an actual picture of it because it was my first year,” said Davis. “The great thing about it now is you have a full body of work throughout the year to see how we play.”

Hubert Davis had a phenomenal first season as head coach of the Tarheels. North Carolina went 29-10, appeared in the national championship game against Kansas, and picked up a pair of all-time wins in their rivalry against Duke. To build on it, Davis wants to show recruits that they can be apart of the next edition of that successful first template.

“We’re bound by spacing and balance and movement. We love for guys to use their gifts and talents out there on the perimeter. Be able to attack the basket. People have seen how, especially towards the end of the year, our commitment to the defensive end really helped to put us in position. There’s a body of work now just to show recruits. That’s always a lot better than the way it was last summer.”