But in the middle of North Carolina’s 71-65 victory over Gonzaga in the NCAA championship Monday night, Roy Williams yelled at Kennedy Meeks one final time.
That spot, he insisted following the most recent championship in a 71-65 win over Gonzaga at University of Phoenix Stadium, is reserved for only one coach.
Whether you’re Kentucky, Kansas, UCLA and IN or Mount St. Mary’s, Texas Southern, Troy and Radford, you’ve got to get through Duke and Carolina to be the best.
“The most fun as a coach is seeing the looks on your guys’ faces when they accomplish something very hard”, Williams told thousands of fans who greeted the Tar Heels when they returned to campus Tuesday with the program’s sixth NCAA championship.
Justin Jackson delivered the go-ahead 3-point play with 1:40 left Monday and North Carolina pulled away for a 71-65 win over Gonzaga that washed away a year’s worth of heartache. Williams-Goss played his first two seasons at Washington and had to sit out a year before playing this season. “Just the things I’ve been going through the last couple of weeks: not being 100 percent, not shooting the ball like I wanted to, struggling from the 3-point line, struggling from the free-throw line, which is a shock to myself”. “We broke that glass ceiling everybody said we couldn’t get over”. But as Few said in regard to the missed call, “that’s just the way it goes”.
Some of the culprits: Berry led the Tar Heels with 22 points but needed 19 shots to get there. He helped seal another title for UNC with a huge block on Williams-Goss before stealing an inbound pass to lead UNC to a six-point victory.
Once Jackson finished off with the dunk, Pinson knew the game was over.
But Williams-Goss almost carried Gonzaga home by himself.
The win saw moving one ahead of his mentor, Dean Smith, and is now behind only John Wooden, Mike Krzyzewski and Adolph Rupp. “But let me think on it”.
This year’s group was good enough to drive the Wildcats to the Elite Eight, while Calipari has won a national title (2012) and reached three other Final Fours (2011, 2014, 2015) at Kentucky. “I feel like previous year was taken from us at the last moment and this is just, it feels great – so excited”.
The Tar Heels regrouped, refocused and outplayed Gonzaga over the final 20 minutes to prevent any deja vu.
That’s assuming the Tar Heels get invited. Nobody wants to watch a free-throw fest.
“And on top of that, these three clowns – and that’s what they were last night – blew call after call at the end of the game”, he said.
What makes Berry’s performance even more impressive is the fact that he was forced to sit out of the team’s Sunday practice with injuries to both ankles. Somehow, Collins was the only player to foul out. But as Karnowski was flailing after the ball, he grabbed Berry around the neck and, after a long delay, got called for a flagrant foul of his own. But as Karnowski was flailing after the ball, he inadvertently grabbed Berry around the neck.
A lot of the foul calls in this game were bad, but none changed the game as much as the fourth foul call against Zach Collins for …