This season wore on Williams, who cajoled a young but talented team to recover from an unsteady start to reach the N.C.A.A. But the Tar Heels were blitzed in the opening game by Wisconsin, 85-62. Remarkably, it was the first time in 30 tries that his teams had lost an opening game in the N.C.A.A. It has been a year that, 2020 and the first part of 2021, I haven’t enjoyed that much. His coaching, he suggested, had not been as sharp, and left his teams underperforming, especially in the final seconds of close games.

Source: New York Times April 01, 2021 09:56 UTC