North Carolina Tar Heels coach Roy Williams says ACC is still best

Carolina started the game scalding hot from outside, too, making six of its first seven three-point attempts.

During one disastrous stretch in the second half, the Tar Heels committed four turnovers in just over three minutes.

Justin Jackson became the first Tar Heel to make over 100 three-pointers in a season with four made in the game. “To be the only team left, it’s an honor. I’ve said that he is just gifted in that area”. The two losses were on those rare bad shooting nights.

Until the bottom dropped out. “And you’re probably going to have to play to play very good basketball because all four of these teams are capable of advancing to the Final Four”.

It isn’t the first time that the Butler program has had such a challenge, and if the Bulldogs prevail, it also won’t be the first.

In the top of the ninth the Hurricanes were quickly retired, and UNC won 7-2. Swanigan has 28 double doubles this year and has had a double double in both of the tournament games. “I think the ACC is still the best league”.

Berry said he thinks it’s unfair to pass judgement on a conference exclusively on the basis of its tournament performance.

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Butler’s game plan is one of physicality.

Those who working the business say as soon as the team makes the tournament, business begins to pick up and the further the team goes, the better it gets. Victor stays and loser goes home. That was the hard part, he said, not defeat.

But because they play in different conferences – and in UCLA’s and North Carolina’s cases, different coasts – their paths don’t cross often enough perhaps.

Several days ago, North Carolina coach Roy Williams told the hosts of a nationally broadcast radio sports show that he could not wait to get to Memphis for some barbecued ribs.

CHALK BRACKET: “Obviously there’s opinions and arguments, but we feel like this is obviously the toughest region”, Alford said. “But again, we haven’t proven it in the tournament and that’s the bottom line“.

Berry finished the game as the leading scorer for the Tar Heels, scoring 26 points on 8-of-13 shooting.

Butler’s run in the NCAA tournament is over. Guerra then walked the first man he faced to load the bases up for UNC, and a sac-fly scored a run, fortunately no more damage was allowed, and UNC led 6-0.

The Tar Heels like to pressure opposing offenses on the perimeter, while their size causes problems inside.

“It’s important for the Carolina family – alumni, fans, professors, whatever it is”, senior center Kennedy Meeks said.

One way to prove that your defensive commitment would be to slow down the team that scored 103 points – and the player who got 47 – on you.

“We just have to space them out as much as possible”, Chrabascz explained, “keep them moving”.