Instead the Tar Heels talked about resilience, about overcoming their own poor play. A sea of blue flooded Franklin Street soon after as Carolina fans celebrated the school's first basketball title since 2009.
Williams and the Tar Heels didn't go when they won in 2005 because members of the team were already in National Basketball Association training camps, but they did go in 2009.
"The feeling of inadequacy in the locker room past year is the worst feeling I've ever had", Williams said. In 14 seasons with North Carolina, Williams now has three.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - The greatest season so far in Gonzaga basketball history ended with the Bulldogs falling short of their goal but many of those players who slugged it out with North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament title game will be back for another try next season.
Gonzaga's strength - its enormity in the post - became problematic early in the second half as well, with all three of its bigs finding themselves in serious foul trouble, though some played through it. From there, as the teams continued to trade points, the officials couldn't stop blowing the whistle.
"It stings a lot right now", Williams-Goss said.
He joined Bob Knight and Jim Calhoun, who each have three national championships as a head coach, and trails only John Wooden (10), Mike Krzyzewski (5) and Adolph Rupp (4) for the most ever. I felt like I was always trying.
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The final push came from UNC.
"On the court when Justin dunked the ball, I can't even explain it", Pinson said after the game. Hicks scored 13 points and connected on his last four attempts, including a huge bucket in the lane to give UNC a three-point lead. He still finished with nine points and seven rebounds.
"I don't think any of us think we played our absolute best game and that hurts", Gonzaga point guard Nigel Williams-Goss said.
Gonzaga, a Roman Catholic university in Spokane, Washington, emerged as a Cinderella team in 1999, reaching the Elite Eight before losing to eventual champion CT. In 2015, the last time CBS aired the NCAA finale, 28.26 million viewers watched Duke beat Wisconsin.
This year's run by Gonzaga was no fluke, with its only other defeat coming February 25 to BYU. They didn't want to be back-to-back runner-ups, so they put all of their effort throughout the NCAA tournament. He had spent the first 60 minutes of the Final Four playing abysmal basketball, shooting 2-for-17 from the floor while shooting with the kind of confidence that Karl Malone with have. And now we know why.
During their remarkable run, the Zags were ranked No. 1 in the nation for four weeks and earned a No. 1 seed in the tournament. So we did that. We had about six or seven guys get into Bible study...have just quiet time just to be able to take it all in and keep the mindset on the Lord above. I'm so blessed that my family got to witness this. "So it's a great feeling", Maye said. "It's what we've worked for". "The ups and downs that we had, it's all worth it".
"I think we just deserved it".
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