It’s a wild season in college basketball, with numerous No. 1 teams toppling to prove it.
Roy William’s North Carolina squad, though, might be the blue blood team having the toughest go of it. The Tar Heels are 8-6 coming off a home loss to Georgia Tech, in which UNC had the largest halftime deficit in the history of the Dean E. Smith Center.
Williams’ assessment of where his program is right now isn’t sugar coating anything.
“We stunk, ok. We were not very good,” Williams said Monday on Roy Williams live!. “The crazy thing about it is, our team, and we’ve had some very gifted teams, this is not a very gifted team. It’s just not.”
UNC has been dismantled with injury, beginning with the preseason. But a knee injury taking star freshman Cole Anthony out of the lineup in December was the toughest blow as it cost the team its leading scorer.
The Tar Heels were 6-3 then and have gone 2-3 since, leaving Williams frustrated. After Saturday’s loss, the coach said he was the “…Most upset, most disappointed I’ve ever been in my life coaching a basketball game.”
Williams has coached and won a lot… His 879th career win Dec. 30 moved him to fourth all-time in NCAA wins as a head coach and tied him with his mentor, Dean Smith, but edging Smith in the records seems to be the furthest thing from Williams’ mind as his team hits uninterrupted ACC play.