ESPN's Seth Greenberg puts North Carolina's NCAA Tournament resume on blast

ESPN’s Seth Greenberg put North Carolina’s NCAA Tournament resume on blast during Saturday’s edition of College GameDay.

North Carolina is currently 18-11 going into Saturday’s game against Miami. While they look like a tournament team as currently constructed, the resume isn’t all that great, per Greenberg.

Hey, if they weren’t a Power Four team we might be having a different conversation.

“I look at the way they’re playing right now, they look like a team that could win a game in the NCAA Tournament,” Greenberg said. “The guard play’s been terrific. Having said that … just like everyone else’s resume, it’s your body of work. And if you look at their body work, their resume looks like a mid major team that’s on the bubble. And what I mean by that, they’ve got one quad one win, they’ve got six quad two wins, and they have a quad three loss. That is a good resume for a mid major team trying to play their way in the NCAA tournament. 

“The essence of having a chance to play in the NCAA Tournament, they have to beat teams in the field. They only have one win against a team in the field. They’ve got to make some hay in the ACC tournament probably because they don’t have opportunities.”

All seemed lost for Hubert Davis and North Carolina after a 20-point loss to the Clemson Tigers dropped their record to 14-11 on Feb. 10.

After moving their record to 18-11 and improving their resume for the NCAA Tournament, Davis took some time to speak with the media about his team’s turnaround, and what’s changed for UNC over the second half of February. 

“Let me say this, I’ve said before — in terms of chemistry, it has been a 10 out of 10 the whole time. What I have seen is a change in some areas,” Davis said, regarding what’s been different over this run for North Carolina. “One is offensive rebounding, but I’ve seen a change in like, the voices. In shoot-around, practice, huddles, locker room. The noise is getting louder. There’s more talking. I’ve noticed that, and that’s something that maybe wasn’t there consistently at the beginning of the year, but it is right now …

“I just — the thing right now that I’m most proud of is this group has stayed the course, and they’ve stayed connected, when very easily they could not have. That’s a testament to them, to be able to stay the course and stay that stay connected when things weren’t going so well, to get us to now where we’re playing better.”

Stephen Samra contributed to this story