Larry Brown Sports
Brown Bag it, Baby
Roy Williams paid respect to the late Pat Summitt while coaching at Tennessee on Sunday. Williams’ North Carolina Tar Heels beat the Vols 78-73 Sunday at Thompson-Boling Arena. The court inside the arena is named “The Summitt” after …
There are a lot of factors to look at when filling out your bracket once March Madness rolls around. Who’s coming in on a hot streak? Who has the sort of player that can take over and win a game on their own? How many experienced upperclassmen …
A heated Brad Brownell confronted Roy Williams after North Carolina beat Clemson 89-86 in overtime of their game on Tuesday. Williams went over to meet Brownell after the game, and the Clemson coach was clearly angry and started pointed his finger at …
North Carolina coach Roy Williams was in a sentimental mood after his team beat Syracuse to advance to the title game. Williams nodded to Stuart Scott and Dean Smith, two departed UNC icons, during the postgame. "I really wish Stuart Scott were …
North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams was the subject of a recent Washington Post story that his friends apparently did not think highly of. Kent Babb of the Post recently wrote a story about Williams, and how the NCAA investigation …
Roy Williams is heading to the Final Four this week for the eighth time in his coaching career. He has won two national national championships, three ACC Tournament championships at North Carolina and three Big 12 titles when he was at Kansas. You …
Roy Williams was just trying to celebrate after North Carolina’s win over Notre Dame in the Elite Eight on Sunday and conduct a postgame interview, but one of his players got in the way. Check out what big man Joel James did: Sliding up in your …
Roy Williams tried his best to soften the blow after his North Carolina Tar Heels defeated Indiana in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Friday. The Tar Heels shot 32-of-62 (51.6 percent) from the field, including 11-of-20 on 3-pointers. They ran …
Poring over match-ups in the first round of the NCAA Tournament can be a painstaking chore, particularly when faced with a deluge of facts, stats and figures that fail to paint a complete picture. Roster turnover alone makes it incredibly difficult …
Roy Williams let Doug Gottlieb have it during his postgame press conference on Saturday after the CBS analyst claimed that the Tar Heels coach would retire at season’s end. According to Ryan Phillips of the Big Lead, Gottlieb claimed on the CBS …
Roy Williams had some explaining to do after not calling timeout on the final possession of North Carolina’s rivalry loss to Duke Wednesday night. With the Tar Heels down one with twenty seconds left, Williams elected to allow his team to play …
Roy Williams collapsed in a team huddle during North Carolina’s close game at Boston College on Tuesday night. Williams was angry over a call and had some words for the officials. As he made his way into the team huddle, he fell to the ground …
Standards are high when you’re a North Carolina basketball player, as Brice Johnson was reminded on Saturday. Johnson, one of the team’s key players, found himself on the bench for 8:37 of the first half against UCLA. Why? Because he used …
Bo Ryan and the Wisconsin Badgers advanced to Monday’s national championship game against Duke thanks to victory over Kentucky on Saturday. Unfortunately, Ryan’s father won’t be there to cheer his son on. Butch Ryan passed away in …
North Carolina coach Roy Williams apologized for leaving five bench players on the court to finish the game against Florida State after the rest of the team left for the locker room Saturday. Williams arranged for his players and coaches to shake …
There was a big upset in the ACC Saturday when Florida State drubbed 3rd-ranked North Carolina 90-57. Had it not been for the last few, meaningless seconds of a lopsided game and what happened afterward, Seminoles guard Deividas Dulkys would have …
