Tudor: What might have been will haunt Tar Heels

Posted Mar 25, 2012
This time, there was no Ty Lawson miracle for North Carolina’s basketball team, as there was in 2009. This time, there were only misery, tears and the beginning of a nonstop “what if” offseason. “I’ll play this one over and over for a long time,” Tar Heel coach Roy Williams said after an 80-67 season-ending loss to Kansas on Sunday in the NCAA Midwest Regional championship game. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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