The North Carolina Tar Heels fell in blowout fashion to the Duke Blue Devils and Cooper Flagg on Saturday, but head coach Hubert Davis still has a positive outlook.

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.

The North Carolina Tar Heels suffered an 87-70 point loss to rival Duke on Saturday. With that, head coach Hubert Davis saw his team fall to 13-10 in what has been a frustrating and disappointing season in Chapel Hill.

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.

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.

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.