Heels Sprint Past Gonzaga

Posted Mar 28, 2009
When UNC’s offense is clicking and its top four scorers are rolling along, the Tar Heels are close to unstoppable. Add Gonzaga to the list of teams with firsthand knowledge of that information, following a 98-77 throttling that lifted UNC to the Elite Eight and left the Bulldogs singing the blues. “We're ecstatic – It was a big time game for us,” UNC head coach Roy Williams told reporters during his postgame press conference (Inside Carolina)

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