# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DO_1pDiD68S
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-24T19:55:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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There’s no getting around it: this isn’t your dad’s college basketball. Heck, it might not even be your older brother’s college basketball. Player movement is at an all-time high, and UNC’s roster this coming season paints a stunning picture: 12 of the Tar Heels’ 16 players were not on the team last year.

Of those four returners, only two are scholarship players. And of those two, only one has started a game.

That one is UNC’s last connection to what appears to be a bygone era of college basketball. Because once Seth Trimble plays out his senior year as a Tar Heel this spring, how many more will follow? Who else will stay four years at one program, often battling roster logjams and frustrating usage along the way?

Of course, Trimble did enter the transfer portal following his sophomore season. But the Tar Heel legacy kid – his older brother is former UNC standout J.P. Tokoto – found he couldn’t bear the thought of not being in Chapel Hill. A year later, the little brother is now the face of the program, a de facto team captain for a Tar Heel team built almost from scratch. However daunting that prospect is, Trimble said it’s nothing new for him.

“I’ve always seen myself as a leader,” Trimble told reporters earlier in September. “In high school, I was always a guy who pushed my teammates. I was always a guy who got on my teammates when needed, who carried my teammates when needed, who held them up. And that’s who I want to continue to be. It helps people. It allows people to grow when there’s that leadership, and I think I’m capable of doing it.”

If early reviews from Tar Heel teammates are any indication, Trimble’s leadership abilities haven’t waned since his days as a prep star in the Milwaukee suburbs.

“If we have a slow day at the gym, he’ll start clapping,” said Arizona transfer Henri Veesaar. “He’ll talk. He’ll get everybody energized. On the court as well, he’ll keep everybody to a higher standard. It’s like having another coach on the floor.”

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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