WANT TO SEE THE POINT IS THAT. HIS FIRST VICTORY? >> GOOD AFTERNOON. I'M DAVID CRABTREE. THE PLANE HAS JUST LANDED AT RDU INTERNATIONAL. YOU'RE LOOKING LIVE THERE AS COACH. HUBERT DAVIS BEGINS LEADING THE TEAM OFF THE PLANE. FOLLOWING LAST NIGHT'S CHAMPIONSHIP RUN THAT ENDED IN A LOSS IN NEW ORLEANS. >> THE TEAM COMING LEAVING ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF 2 HOURS AGO. ARMANDO BACOT OUT. HE'S WEARING A BOOT ON HIS ANKLE. THAT ERIE INJURED LATE IN THE GAME LAST NIGHT WITH ABOUT 48 SECONDS TO GO. WHAT A YEAR. WHAT A RUN FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAM. MAKING IT TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME. AFTER AN EMOTIONAL WEEKEND. DEFEATING YOU ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND THEN PLANE LATE LAST NIGHT AND INTO THE NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS. HUBERT DAVIS EXPRESSING TODAY. HE'S ABSOLUTELY LOVE AND ADMIRATION FOR HIS TEAM. BOTH ON THE COURT DATE IS WELCOMED AND HER LINE IS ACADEMIC ELITE. MATT, TELL HIM THERE FROM WRAL JUST WELCOMING COACH DAVIS BACK. ALL THE TEAM MAKING THEIR WAY INSIDE. THEN THEY'LL MAKE THEIR WAY ON TO BUSES. WELL, THE TRIP TO THE SMITH CENTER WHERE WE'RE EXPECTING A LARGE CROWD TO GREET THE TEAM THIS AFTERNOON AS THEY ARRIVED BACK IN CHAPEL HILL. LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE SMITH CENTER RIGHT NOW IN CHAPEL HILL. YOU CAN SEE PEOPLE LINED UP OUTSIDE. THEY KNOW THAT TEAM HAS JUST LANDED THERE WAITING. THEY WANT TO BE THERE TO GREET THEM, SHOWING THEIR SUPPORT. AND THAT SUPPORT IS LASTED THROUGHOUT THIS EVEN SEASON. EVEN THROUGH SOME DARK LOSSES THAT CAROLINA EXPERIENCED. WHAT AN AMAZING RUN IN NEW ORLEANS. DEBRA THEY'RE TALKING LAST NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER THE GAME ABOUT WHAT THIS TEAM HAD BEEN THROUGH, WHAT THEY HAD SEEN, HOW FAR THEY HAD COME. AND HOW ABSOLUTELY DEMORALIZING IT WAS TO LOSE THAT GAME AFTER LOSING A 6 TEEN POINT LEAD LOSING TO KANSAS BY 3.72. TO 69 LAST NIGHT. THE TEAM, THE CHEERLEADERS, THE BAND ALL MAKING THEIR WAY TO NEW ORLEANS. MANY OF THEM THERE ON THE FLIGHT THIS AFTERNOON COMING BACK. WHAT AN AMAZING RUN HAS BEEN. BY THE WAY, I WOULD JUST HOLD IF YOU LISTEN THERE, YOU CAN HEAR THERE ARE TAR HEEL CHANCE HAPPENING OUTSIDE THE SMITH CENTER. NOW, WHILE THE BUS IS STILL ABOUT 22 MILES OR SO AWAY THEY WANT THEIR TEAM BACK THERE. THEY WANT TO SHOW THEM THAT THEY OBVIOUSLY SUPPORT. THE TAR HEELS, WHETHER THEY WON OR LOST THAT GAME LAST NIGHT. SO MANY PEOPLE NEVER EXPECTED. NORTH CAROLINA TO COME THIS FAR IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT. IT'S JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO PEOPLE WERE QUESTIONING WHETHER OR NOT THEY WOULD EVEN MAKE IT IN TO THE FIELD OF 68. AND YET WHEN THERE WERE ONLY 2 STANDING THERE, THEY WERE. FIGHTING FOR 40 MINUTES LAST NIGHT IN A GAME THAT ENDED IN HEARTBREAK FOR SO MANY AS ONE OF THE COACHES THERE. SEAN MAY MAKING HIS WAY DOWN NOW, ALONG WITH THE OTHER PLAYERS. AND ASSISTANT COACHES. YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHAT WAS TALKED ABOUT ON THAT FLIGHT THIS AFTERNOON. YOU HOPE FOR THOSE YOUNG MAN THAT IT WAS, JOE. WE'LL COMING BACK. YEAH. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN IN ANY TYPE OF COMPETITION. YOU KNOW THAT FINISHING SECOND IS NEVER WHERE YOU WANT TO YOU CAN TALK ALL DAY LONG ABOUT HOW GREAT IT WAS TO BE THERE. BUT IF YOU DON'T WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP, IT STAYS WITH YOU AS THE PLAYERS AND COACH DAVIS SAID LAST NIGHT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. WRAL'S MATT TALHELM IS THERE AT THE AIRPORT. MATT? YEAH, DAVID, I MEAN, THEY LOOK TIRED TO BE HONEST. I MEAN, THIS IS A. >> I'VE BEEN A LONG WEEK FOR THEM AND THAT TRIP TO THE FINAL 4. YOU CAN SOME FOLKS STILL CONTINUE TO GET OFF THE PLANE HERE. BUT AND THIS WAS A LONG COUPLE OF DAYS AND A LONG 2 HOURS, 7 MINUTES FLY FROM NEW ORLEANS BACK HERE, BACK HOME, WHERE THEY WILL HEAD OVER TO CAPITOL HILL. WE HAVE SEEN ALL THE PLAYERS, I THINK ARE OFF THE PLANE AT THIS POINT. THIS IS A CHARTERED DELTA FLIGHT. THEY GOT THEM DIRECTLY HERE TO RDU. I TRIED TO GET COACH GET TO SEE IF HE WOULD TALK TO YOU KNOW, HE IS. THIS ISN'T A LONG, LONG TRIP FOR YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE LOADING INTO THESE BUSES FROM HERE. THEY WILL MAKE THAT TRIP DOWN TO CHAPEL HILL TO SMITH CENTER WITH A REAL RIGHT THERE TODAY. STANDS THERE BACK HERE. I CAN TELL YOU THIS IS THE GENERAL AVIATION TERMINAL. SO THIS IS WHERE THE PRIVATE FLIGHTS TAKE OFF AND THERE ARE SOME FANS WHO ARE ACTUALLY INSIDE THE TERMINAL HERE. THEY WAITED FOR THEIR PLANES TO TAKE OFF BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BE HERE. THEY WANTED TO AT LEAST SEE THIS WELCOME HOME CELEBRATION AND CELEBRATE THIS TEAM. SHOW THEM THEIR PRIDE DESPITE THE LOSS. AS YOU SAID, DAVID, IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT ANYONE EXPECTED HIM TO BE IN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR. COACH JAMES, HIS FIRST YEAR WITH THIS TEAM HERE IS HEAD COACH. SO AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THAT EVERYONE IS STARTING TO PACK UP THEIR LUGGAGE AND PUT HIM ONTO THE BUSES. HERE'S MAKE THAT TRIP DOWN TO CHAPEL HILL AFTER A TIRING WEEKEND. I'M SURE THEY'RE VERY TIRED AFTER LAST NIGHT'S LATE NIGHT GAME AND ALL THEY HAVE WRAL'S MATT TALHELM AT THANK YOU. AND YOU'RE RIGHT. THEY ARE TIRED OF GOT TO BE AWFULLY. SO I DON'T CARE HOW YOUNG THEY ARE. >> OF THOSE 6 MEN WHO PLAYED PRIMARILY THE ENTIRE GAME LAST NIGHT, BASICALLY JUST 6 PLAYERS FOR CAROLINA BEATEN AND BRUISED BADLY DURING THAT GAME LAST NIGHT IN A VALIANT EFFORT AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS. WRAL. SKY 5 IS GOING TO BE FOLLOWING THE UNC JOURNEY BACK TO CHAPEL HILL. YOU'LL BE SHOWING THAT TO YOU WILL COME BACK TO YOU LIVE WHEN THE TEAM ARRIVES AT THE SMITH CENTER FOR A WELCOME HOME UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA TAR HEELS WILL BRING YOU THAT AS IT HAPPENS. I'M DAVID