In other years, trying to pick out the best guy to come off the bench for the Tar Heels is a difficult chore. The squad usually goes pretty deep, and in some years the best players on the team don’t even start.
This season, though, from the outset it was pretty clear that the rotation of players was going to be small. Against Loyola, Hubert Davis only played eight people for ten minutes or more, and lest anyone think that was a mistake, it shrank to seven the next game against Brown. Hubert Davis, being a new coach installing a new system and navigating three transfers, pegged pretty early the guys he was going to start and then wanted them to play as much as possible.