Pitt’s Capel objects to UNC tweet ‘trolling’ brother

Pittsburgh coach Jeff Capel, following his group’s 65-64 win at North Carolina on Wednesday, spoke out in regards to the Tar Heels followers’ remedy of his brother and present Panthers assistant, former UNC standout Jason Capel.

Jason Capel, who averaged 12.1 PPG in 4 years at North Carolina (1998-2002), was booed by UNC followers after the sport, which accomplished a season sweep for Pitt.

In a video reviewed by ESPN, an animated Jason Capel, standing within the hallway of the Dean E. Smith Middle following the matchup, could be heard proclaiming, “Verify the file e-book! My boys did my work. I ain’t gotta say nothing. All I did for this program and ya’ll disrespect me? You bought a brush? That is a sweep.”

Jeff Capel stated his brother was upset by a tweet posted by the North Carolina males’s basketball account earlier than the sport, however didn’t determine the precise tweet.

“My brother loves the varsity,” Jeff Capel stated. “He dreamt of coming right here as a participant after we had been little, when he was little. He wore that [North Carolina] jersey with numerous delight, and since he is left right here, there was numerous disrespect towards him. And one factor occurred as we speak, and I do not assume it is coming from inside the basketball program, and I do not know who controls their social media … I get social media, you attempt to be humorous or no matter, however I believed it was them trolling him.

“It is a difficult relationship with him and North Carolina. He loves [them], however I believe at occasions, he would not really feel that again.”

Hours earlier than Wednesday’s sport, the official Twitter account for North Carolina Basketball tweeted a photo of a game-day program that confirmed Creighton Lebo, a walk-on and the son of North Carolina assistant Jeff Lebo, protruding his tongue. Creighton Lebo, who has performed two minutes complete this season, wears No. 25, the identical quantity Jason Capel wore for North Carolina.

Jeff Capel stated the rocky relationship between Jason Capel and North Carolina goes again to 2009, when Jeff Capel was the pinnacle coach at Oklahoma and the Sooners confronted the Tar Heels within the Elite Eight.

“My brother was there with my complete household supporting me — he had an [Oklahoma] shirt on — and the North Carolina followers had been fairly s—ty in direction of him, excuse my language, however fairly, fairly nasty, and it [took one of the former North Carolina players to say something to them],” Jeff Capel defined. “You hear in regards to the Carolina household and it is simply superb to me that their social media folks would try this. I do not assume it is [UNC coach Hubert Davis]. Hubert is superior. He actually is. I do not assume it is the gamers on the group.”