Strategic Shift
Posted Feb 14, 2013
Roy Williams’s season-long approach to his lineup had yielded mostly consistent, yet ineffective results against elite-level competition. He rolled the dice on Wednesday and nearly pulled off a dramatic upset of top-ranked Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Roy Williams inserted P.J. Hairston into the starting lineup not for Dexter Strickland, but for Desmond Hubert.
(Inside Carolina)
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