Ex-Tar Heel Matt Doherty moves from coach to TV analyst

 Instead of running basketball practices these days, Matt Doherty watches and takes copious notes from them. Instead of coaching basketball games this season, he’ll talk about them from the sidelines or a television studio.

In other words, Doherty’s relationship with the game that has both blessed and cursed him over the years is much more manageable now, thank you.

After 11 seasons of coaching at Notre Dame, North Carolina, Florida Atlantic and Southern Methodist, Doherty and his family have returned to the Charlotte area, where he is working for Ballantyne-based ESPNU as an analyst and commentator for SEC and Big 12 games.

1982 National Championship team. Sam Perkins, Jimmy Black, Michael Jordan, Matt Doherty, James Worthy, and Billy Packer.

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From left to right, North Carolina football coach John Bunting, director of athletics Dick Baddour, current basketball coach Roy Williams, former basketball coaches Matt Doherty, Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge, and Tar Heels radio announcer Woody Durham pose for a photo prior to the 15th annual Carolina Kids Classic Thursday morning, June 19, 2003.