{"id":1381,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1381","headline":"Hubert Davis lands TV gig with TNT Sports college basketball coverage","dek":"The former North Carolina coach will debut as a studio and game analyst on Thursday, Nov. 5, covering Big East and Big 12 matchups.","body":"Hubert Davis has a new job in TV, not on the sideline. TNT Sports announced a multi-year deal signing him as a studio and game analyst for its men's college basketball coverage starting with the 2026-27 season.\n\nDavis will debut at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, when the pregame show on truTV and HBO Max anchors a three-game slate of Big East and Big 12 matchups. He joins a studio lineup that includes Tim Doyle, Dalen Cuff and Seth Davis, with the network's coverage centered largely on those two conferences.\n\nThe hire marks a return to public life for Davis after his exit from North Carolina. He was fired in April, following a season that ended with the Tar Heels blowing a 19-point lead against VCU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, a collapse that completed the largest comeback in the history of that round and sent North Carolina home in the Round of 64 for the second straight year.\n\nDavis spent 14 seasons in Chapel Hill, returning in 2012 as an assistant under Roy Williams before taking over as head coach, where he went 125-54. Before that stretch, he worked seven years as an ESPN analyst. He also played at UNC as a sharpshooter under Dean Smith.","published_at":"2026-10-27T22:34:06.889443+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Awful Announcing","publisher":"Awful Announcing","title":"Hubert Davis joins TNT Sports as college basketball analyst","url":"https://awfulannouncing.com/tnt-sports/hubert-davis-college-basketball-analyst.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Ex-North Carolina coach Hubert Davis joining TNT Sports as a college basketball studio and game analyst","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/north-carolina-unc-coach-hubert-davis-tnt-sports-studio-analyst/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Hubert Davis, former UNC basketball coach, joining TNT college basketball coverage","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/hubert-davis-former-unc-basketball-180150268.html"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"TNT reportedly hires former UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis as studio analyst","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/mens-college-basketball/article/tnt-reportedly-hires-former-unc-basketball-coach-hubert-davis-as-studio-analyst-170807582.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Hubert Davis joins TNT Sports as college basketball analyst","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/hubert-davis-joins-tnt-sports-220010783.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://cdn1.thecomeback.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2026/10/AA-Photos-57.png","credit":"Awful Announcing","width":2550},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}