North Carolina coach Mack Brown reportedly offered to step down after the Tar Heels' 70–50 loss at home to James Madison. However, he backed off from that later.

North Carolina coach Mack Brown told his team following Saturday's 70-50 loss to James Madison that he would "walk away and step down if he was the problem," sources told 247Sports' Inside Carolina. The players vocally supported Brown and took the blame themselves after Brown made his address.

North Carolina suffered the wildest loss of the weekend with a 70-50 defeat at home to James Madison. For that, Mack Brown is accepting all the blame because of it. Brown opened his postgame press conference by taking the fault for the 20-point loss to the Dukes.