Roy Williams: ACC tourney like an NCAA play-in this year
Posted Mar 8, 2011
North Carolina coach Roy Williams, whose top-seeded team won’t play in the ACC tournament until Friday, called this year’s event in Greensboro “almost like a pre-NCAA tournament, because there’s so much at stake for so many teams. Only three ACC teams are pretty safe locks for the NCAAs, so far: UNC, second-seeded Duke and third-seeded Florida State.
(Raleigh News & Observer)
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