The UNC men’s basketball team is trying to do exactly that in the transfer portal, as it looks to replace the production of Armando Bacot with an experienced center. Bacot left Chapel Hill the program leader in rebounds and double-doubles, a mark that could hold forever, given how often players enter and exit a program nowadays.
Sometimes in college basketball, the best recruits are the ones you already have. In the transfer portal era, roster retention is an important element of team building, and UNC basketball has been one of the better programs at doing so.
Head coach Hubert Davis, now preparing for his fourth season leading the Tar Heels, has done a great job retaining players such as Armando Bacot and RJ Davis in recent seasons. But he and his staff were faced with a unique challenge of bringing a player back home to Chapel Hill this time.
On Tuesday afternoon, Seth Trimble announced his intention to withdraw his name from the transfer portal and return to Chapel Hill, just two weeks after announcing his potential transfer.
Trimble’s return to UNC is the program’s first commitment from a player in this year’s transfer portal, despite the Tar Heels being linked to a number of potential transfer additions.
