Written by MICHAEL KOH
It’s appropriate that Seth Trimble and R.J. Davis will both be honored at the Smith Center together.
UNC will celebrate Senior Night against Clemson tonight, hoping to close out what has so far been a spotless home slate. Seth Trimble and Elijah Davis will both make their final Smith Center appearances as Tar Heels, and both will start in what has become an eternal Carolina tradition.
An already festive atmosphere will get an additional jolt at halftime when R.J. Davis makes his return to the Dean Dome to see his No. 4 jersey raised to the rafters. The former ACC Player of the Year and first team All-American is the first Tar Heel to have his jersey honored since Joel Berry.
R.J.’s ceremony was originally scheduled for UNC’s game against Louisville last Monday, but a severe winter storm in the northeast crippled travel and forced the Davis family to postpone. But with Trimble also being honored tonight, it’s only right that R.J. will be there for his teammate and friend.
Davis and Trimble share a bond that goes back to Seth’s freshman year. Back then, the kid who was simply known as J.P. Tokoto’s little brother asked if he could follow Davis everywhere he went. Still basking in the afterglow of UNC’s run to the national title game, R.J. nevertheless agreed to mentor Trimble, and the pair’s connection grew so strong that Seth openly wept at the NCAA Tournament dais last season when reflecting on the end of Davis’ career.
Now a senior himself, Trimble has emerged as the leader this group of Tar Heels needs. And while Davis and Trimble’s player profiles are fairly different, they will be forever linked not just because of their friendship, but because they may be the last of their kind. It’s impossible to predict when UNC will graduate its next four- or five-year senior who spent his entire career in Chapel Hill. Davis undoubtedly could have gone somewhere else after a rocky junior season, but stuck around and made All-America the next year. As for Trimble, he did enter the transfer portal after his sophomore season, but almost immediately thought better of it. To hear Seth tell it, he simply couldn’t imagine putting on another jersey.
That’s the type of devotion to a community that Hubert Davis searches for in recruits, and that’s why so many fans have gravitated toward the two players being honored tonight. R.J. and Seth are throwbacks to a different time in college hoops, when fans could predict the roster year-by-year and anticipate a player’s growth. As Trimble prepares to say his last goodbye, it’s worth wondering how many more players like him are waiting in the wings.
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