With controversy swirling elsewhere, Carolina's Roy Williams is focused on another season

Posted Oct 11, 2018
Roy Williams is ready for another season and another run at a title, relieved that he’s healthy again, his golf handicap is back to single digits and the controversies swirling around college basketball are finally elsewhere. He’s 68 years old and heading into his 16th season at UNC. It only seems like forever. “I still think there’s quite a bit of fire in the belly,” Williams said. (Greensboro News & Record)

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