Roy Williams reflects on his past career at Kansas as his No. 1-seed UNC Tar Heels prepare to face off with the No. 2-seed Kansas Jayhawks for a shot at the Final Four, and Jayhawks' coach Bill Self discusses the Heels.

The last time UNC coach Roy Williams faced his former employer, the Kansas Jayhawks, he called it “one of the worst nights of my career.”

That matchup occurred in the 2008 NCAA Tournament semifinals and when I spoke to him about it more than a year later during the research for Williams’ autobiography Hard Work, he could still recall in detail almost every play from that game.

He said he walked onto the court that night in San Antonio believing his team was going to play great. Before he knew it, the Tar Heels trailed 40-12.

He also admitted that he coached the game feeling so ill that he threw up into a towel and so dizzy that he had to hold onto a chair to keep from falling. At one point he asked his assistant coach Steve Robinson to call a play because he couldn’t.

Though the Tar Heels made a run in the second half, UNC lost 84-66.

“It felt like somebody reached in and grabbed my heart and shook it in front of my face,” Williams told me. “That Kansas game will eat at me for the rest of my career. Playing so poorly was bad enough, but playing so poorly against the team I coached for 15 years made it even worse. I wanted to win that game more than any game I have ever coached… Watching us play felt like a nightmare. I still to this day have not watched a tape of that Kansas game, and I probably never will.”

Think he wants to win this one?

Updated 11:20 p.m.

ST. LOUIS — From his seat on the North Carolina bench, Kendall Marshall watched the Tar Heels struggle without him during their 73-65 victory overtime victory against Ohio on Friday night, and he watched UNC’s offense falter against the Bobcats’ difficult, intrusive defense.

UNC coach Roy Williams didn’t think it’d be easy without Marshall, who six days ago suffered a broken bone in his right wrist. And it wasn’t easy for the top-seeded Heels, who with the victory against No. 13 Ohio advanced to the NCAA tournament Midwest regional finals on Sunday.

Still, after what was perhaps UNC’s most grinding, hard-fought victory of the season, Marshall wore a wide smile along with a crisp suit in his team’s locker room in the bowels of the Edward Jones Dome.

North Carolina point guard Kendall Marshall fractured his right wrist in the Tar Heels' NCAA tournament victory over Creighton this afternoon. UNC announced the injury following the game.

Marshall's status for the rest of the tournament is unknown, according to a release by the university. More details to follow in update reports this evening.

Roy Williams of No. 1- seed UNC addresses the media on the Tar Heels' upcoming game against No. 8 - seed Creighton. Harrison Barnes of UNC and Doug McDermott of Creighton also discuss their High School history.
 

GREENSBORO – Both Reggie Bullock and James Michael McAdoo are in some ways experiencing the NCAA Tournament for the first time this weekend in Greensboro.

Bullock, a sophomore guard, missed the postseason last year because of a torn lateral meniscus in his left knee. McAdoo, on the other hand, is a freshman.

McAdoo saw extended minutes in last week’s ACC Tournament because of John Henson’s left wrist injury. Now, the two anticipate they will be on the court at the same time in many stretches duringUNC’s second-round game against Vermont tomorrow night.

“This means a lot to me because I just observed last year, and I saw what that team needed,” said Bullock, who is averaging nine points and five rebounds a game. “I’m just trying to be a great defensive player who can make shots coming down the stretch.”

Tournament MVP Michael Snaer scored 18 points as third-seeded Florida State beat top-seeded North Carolina 85-82 for their very first ACC championship on Sunday.

He spoke of becoming a winning program in the ACC, and about winning championships. He spoke of moments like the ones his team experienced here on Sunday, when Florida State held off North Carolina in an 85-82 victory in the ACC tournament championship game.

The victory gave the third-seeded Seminoles (24-9) their first ACC men’s basketball championship of any kind.

Kendall Marshall banked in a shot with 10.2 seconds remaining and the fourth-ranked Tar Heels came up with a pair of defensive stops to edge their state rival 69-67 in the Semifinals of the 2012 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament.