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Carolina players met with AD to discuss coach Doherty

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Members of North Carolina's basketball team met with athletic director Dick Baddour to discuss the future of the program and head coach Matt Doherty.

Baddour said Friday evening that, after a group meeting Thursday and individual meetings with players all day Friday, he hadn't reached any decision about Doherty's future.

"I reinterate my support for Matt Doherty," Baddour said late Friday night.

After the meeting Thursday, the players and Baddour declined comment.

Freshman center Sean May told The News & Observer of Raleigh that the players asked for the meeting "just to talk." Doherty, however, said he started postseason player meetings with Baddour last year.

"I initiated that," Doherty told the newspaper. "I wanted it to happen. I asked Dick to do that."

Doherty did not return several messages seeking comment Friday.

Baddour had said that he was continuing his evaluation of the basketball program and Doherty, whose third season as Tar Heels coach came to an end with Wednesday's loss to Georgetown in the National Invitation Tournament. The Heels finished 19-16 and missed the NCAA Tournament for the second straight season.

 

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