I was there in the Greenville, SC Thursday and took in the Duke vs Siena game. Hey if the a host site is 15 minutes from your home you simply have to go if you are a basketball fan.
Duke came out like they didn’t respect Siena, and it showed getting down by 11 at the half. They looked lethargic on defense and lazy on offense. They played like they expected Siena to rollover. Maliq Brown’s quotes back up that sentiment.
“We thought it was going to be a cakewalk going into this game so now we know what it is so we just have to respond back.”
Duke’s Maliq Brown spoke with @TracyWolfson at halftime. pic.twitter.com/m5L8winCV9
— CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) March 19, 2026
The Saints didn’t go away and it wasn’t until the final 45 seconds, that Duke fans could breath. The final was 71-65 as Duke only forced 6 Siena turnovers. Duke didn’t look like a team that could reach the second weekend, much less the final 4. I have to believe they’ll play better against TCU. Well they couldn’t play worse, and that falls on Jon Scheyer. He didn’t have his team ready to play. They clearly didn’t believe Siena could stay with them, and it almost bit them. I know they are without Caleb Foster or Patrick Ngongba, and that limits their ceiling, but today was some of the worst coaching I’ve seen out of Jon Scheyer, especially in the first 30 minutes of the game. Duke was lucky to survive, but it has hardly the worst ACC coaching effort of the day.
That award belongs to the maligned Hubert Davis it what was the worst 10 minutes of coaching you’ll see in this NCAA tournament. With 5 minutes left, UNC led VCU 70-59 in a game they were ahead by double digits the entirety of the second half up to that point. UNC was attacking with their bigs, playing solid defense, and then it just stopped.
UNC scored just 5 more points the rest of the way. Their defense was non-existant. They stopped going to the glass, and their offense in the halfcourt can only be described as a trainwreck. I don’t like to be right sometimes, but UNC was in massive trouble and Hubert Davis looked helpless. You knew they were toast if it got OT, and they were.
Heels a total disaster in the final 5 minutes – they better win in regulation, because I don’t like their OT chances.
— Jeff or Jeffrey Fann (@TalkinACCSports) March 20, 2026
That might be the biggest meltdown you’ll see in this year’s NCAA tournament, and now Davis’s seat is on fire. If you’re at most schools, a 125-54 record, 4 NCAA appearances, a Sweet 16, and National Title runner-up gets you an extension. At UNC, without an appearance on the weekend of the NCAA tournament for 2 straight years, that puts you on the hot seat.
Sure, the Caleb Wilson injury limited UNC, but Thursday should never have happened. I think Davis will be back, but UNC fans will unload on him in the off-season. Support for him is dwindling, and UNC has been lapped by arch-rival Duke on the court.
If Davis doesn’t have a big season next year, and that means probably a Sweet 16 or better, I don’t think he makes it to year 7 at UNC.
Two bad coaching jobs. One lives to fight another day and put it behind them, while the other will spend months trying to figure how it all went wrong so fast.
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