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Technical foul changes everything for Williams and the Tar Heels

Up by only 12 at the time of Roy Williams' technical foul, the Tar Heels went on to beat William & Mary by 22 Tuesday.

Roy Williams yells for a timeout. Williams would receive a technical foul on the play.
Roy Williams yells for a timeout. Williams would receive a technical foul on the play.

It never was the same. Not after that call — the one that elevated the Smith Center crowd from complacency to raucous fury, the one that made North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams so animated and so fuming that he whipped off his gray coat jacket and earned himself a technical.

You would have thought Duke was in town, or perhaps Kentucky. Maybe N.C. State based on the volume of the Smith Center —

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