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Roy Williams, Tar Heels hope benefits of long road trip pay dividends

 

North Carolina coach Roy Williams met with media members on Tuesday to talk about his team's recent past and its future.
 
The recent past: The top-ranked Tar Heels began the season with a pair of double-digit victories - the first against Michigan State in San Diego on an aircraft carrier and the second at UNC-Asheville, which opened its new arena. And the future: UNC will play four games in six days, beginning on Sunday with the home-opener against Mississippi Valley State. 
 
I asked Williams whether he'd learned anything about his team during that long road trip that he might not have known before the Tar Heels left Chapel Hill. His answer: Not really. 
 
"Well I think you learn something every day," Williams said. "But just to say, oh, I learned that they add two and two and get five, I don't know that I can say that." I wrote more about Williams' impressions of his team's first two games in a story you can find right here.
 
Meanwhile, here are some tidbits that didn't make the story - and some more details on a few topics that did:

Former North Carolina coach Butch Davis defends self, rips critics

Time for an introduction – and a brief one: I’m Andrew Carter. And I’m the new University of North Carolina beat reporter for The News & Observer. After seven years in Florida – four of them covering Florida State for the Orlando Sentinel – I’m thrilled to be back in my home state. 

All right – that’ll have to suffice for now amid a busy day. Stay tuned for a more complete intro.
 
For now, though, there’s some news today on the UNC beat. In case you missed it, former Tar Heels coach Butch Davis wrote an editorial published today in The N&O. You can read that right here. And you can read the news story I wrote about it right here
 
In addition to the editorial, Davis has taken to the Internet to tell his side of the story – or at least part of the story – in effort to clear his name after North Carolina fired him in July amid a multi-pronged NCAA investigation. You can check out the video right here:
 

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