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Few teams have traveled as short a distance to play in an NCAA championship game as Illinois, which valiantly scrambled from a 13-point halftime deficit to a 70-all tie with 2:40 remaining. Is it possible, though, that any team ever has journeyed as far as North Carolina? Think of where the Tar Heels stood in the spring of 2002: a sunken, joyless program, fans grasping for reasons to explain how a team ranked No. 1 in the polls only 13 months earlier could plunge so suddenly.

Think of where they stood a year later, loaded with young talent but trapped in a churn of ugliness and controversy, trying to rationalize the firing of Matt Doherty, an alumnus, who only two years earlier had been named national coach of the year. Think of where Williams was then, in the spring of 2003, debating whether to leave a Kansas program he had led to those four Final Fours, whether to leave the gifted players he had recruited for the Jayhawks and a place where they were debating which campus building should bear his name. From there to here is a long way to travel in two years. The voyage ended with Williams' being embraced from behind by assistant C.B. McGrath as he attempted a simple postgame handshake with Weber and with seniors Manuel, Scott and Jawad Williams in a pile of emotion at center court. The Heels held Illinois without a point for the final 2:40.

When Head launched an attempt at a ty NCAA Mens Basketball Tickets Sing 3-pointer with 16 seconds left, and the ball bounced off the far side of the rim and climbed to the top of the board, NCAA Basketball Tournament Felton squeezed the ball away from Illini guard Dee Brown and raced toward safety. That was it. "I think we came out and proved that we are a team--we are together," Felton says. "You know, who is going to win a national championship if they're not together? We are also talented. I believe in that part. But we also are together as one." Williams certainly knew what was possible upon becoming North Carolina's head coach. He knew well the gifts of Felton and May NCAA Tickets.

He knew the NCAA Tournament challenges inherent in coaching McCants but also the potential rewards that could be reaped from his talent. He knew his connection to young Marvin Williams from up near Seattle was strong enough that offering him the chance to play at NCAA Championship North Carolina would be no less appealing than a chance to play at Kansas. "The ending is I didn't have to curse during an NCAA Final Four interview like I did a couple years ago," Williams says. " NCAA Basketball Playoffs I didn't have to say anything like that. Yeah, I mean, it's been a difficult two years. But gosh, how lucky can you be? I'm doing exactly what I wanted to do with my life." He means coaching college basketball, NCAA Basketball Tickets NCAA Regional not celebrating a championship. But now he can enjoy both.

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