UNC basketball legend Dean Smith touched lives of 12-year-olds, basketball icons alike
He wasn’t ready.
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He wasn’t ready.
LOUISVILLE, KY. — In this moment, Roy Williams has nothing to say. Instead, the body language of the North Carolina men’s basketball coach articulates everything his words don’t have to.
The No. 13 North Carolina men’s basketball team heads to No. 10 Louisville Saturday to take on the Cardinals in UNC’s ninth conference game of the season.
All the 10-year-old wanted to do in that moment was say thank you. And now, a decade later, he’s so glad that he did.
RALEIGH — The hatred filed into PNC Arena long before the opening tip was decided or the first basket was scored.
Marcus Paige turned to his friend at Buffalo Wild Wings, right as N.C. State’s Trevor Lacey drained a step-back 3
Marcus Paige couldn’t get back on defense. He physically couldn’t get down the court fast enough to pick up Terry Rozier when he heaved up a last second prayer, and when the final buzzer sounded meaning it was time to celebrate, Paige couldn’t even do that either.
They were supposed to watch the Super Bowl together.
The play is called ‘Short Winner’ — it’s worked so many times before.
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.
Roy Williams had to resort to screaming, because taking a nicer approach wasn’t getting the job done.
Brilliant at some points, sloppy at others, the No. 24 North Carolina men's basketball team pulled out an eight-point win over No. 12 Ohio State Saturday, 82-74. The victory improves UNC to 8-3 on the season, and perhaps more importantly, proves that Roy Williams' Tar Heels can play with the toughness he's been begging them for when they come to the court focused. The Daily Tar Heel wasn't in Chicago, but here are a few things we noticed back at home in the Tar Heel State. We'll start with the obvious:
LEXINGTON, Ky. — It’s worked so many times before: in an overtime showdown with T.J. Warren and N.C. State, in a raucous Smith Center rivalry eight days after Duke was scheduled to come to Chapel Hill but didn’t because of snow.
Just last week, after a puzzling loss to Butler in Paradise Island of the Bahamas, North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams called the toughness of his 2014-15 UNC squad into question. He wondered if the Tar Heels would find the will to out-compete opponents — playing with the necessary grit that high-level Division I basketball demands.
What do you say after a loss of this magnitude? Are there even words to describe the emotion of such a defeat, or is it better to let some things go unsaid?
By now Marquise Williams knows. He has to.
CHARLOTTE — It’s the dunk that everyone will remember.
DURHAM — They didn’t come to watch Marquise Williams fumble the ball three times in a row in one quarter’s time — twice in the red zone.
It’s simple in form — a brass bell, held up by four rubber wheels, rung by a slew of overly excited college students.
So often in this seesaw that is the North Carolina football team’s season, the storyline has been the same.