RJ Davis reacts to buy-in challenge during locker room meeting

North Carolina has lost three straight games and the latest loss at Wake Forest prompted a much-needed heart-to-heart in a locker room meeting after the game.

Some players put it very bluntly, with Armando Bacot reportedly telling teammates that if they don’t want to be here, they should just quit.

RJ Davis also spoke to the locker room meeting and what the message was.

“Just accountability, that’s like the main thing right now,” Davis said. “Me as a guard and as a leader of this team, I’ve got to be better on both ends of the floor. When things go left, just pull the group together.”

The Tar Heels are still in Joe Lunardi’s latest bracketology, checking in as a No. 9 seed despite the recent turbulence.

But as Bacot put it after the game, some players “came back for a reason… and this is not it.”

Davis echoed that sentiment.

“The vibes in the locker room was obviously not the outcome we wanted. Just sharing our thoughts of just being frustrated and not having things going the right way and not the outcome that we wanted.”

Hubert Davis keeping locker room meeting in house

While he was fine with his players voicing their thoughts on the team’s locker room meeting, coach Hubert Davis didn’t think it was his place to dish on what went down. He instead opted to keep it very generic.

“Well we did have a long discussion, much-needed discussion in the locker room,” Davis said. “And one of the things that I like to do is keep those comments in the locker room. The reason being is not that I don’t want to tell you, but in order to move forward, it’s best to talk with the people you’re moving forward with. I appreciate the question. It was a long, and much-needed, conversation.”

North Carolina returns to action on Saturday with a home date against Clemson. The game will tip off at 2 p.m. ET on ESPN2.