Tar Heels need to maintain consistent intensity, effort

Posted Mar 19, 2011
If you can’t figure out this North Carolina team, which rolled through the second half of the regular season, stumbled in the ACC tournament and showed flashes of brilliance and inexperience Friday in the second round of the 2011 NCAA Tournament, don’t worry. Neither can coach Roy Williams. “I have no idea what to expect sometimes,” he said after his No. 2-seeded team completed an uneven 102-87 win over No. 15 Long Island University. (Sporting News)

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