newsobserver.com - 3/28/2008
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CHARLOTTE - Before Thursday's NCAA regional semifinal game at Charlotte Bobcats Arena, North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams said he wrote three things on the locker room board: >Tough enough. Patient enough. >Poised enough. By proving they were all of those things on defense, the top-seeded Tar Heels beat No. 4-seeded Washington State 68-47. And by holding the Cougars to their lowest ...
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The Daily Roundup: Madness Friday
ACC BasketBlog —
... Green Sparks Heels :' "The Tar Heels play with patience and poise against Washington State and show that they can play defense, too. The result is a 68-47 victory over the Cougars and a place in the NCAA quarterfinals."" ...
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Enjoy the Enjoyment —
... Roy Williams via the Raleigh News-Observer: "I said to Marcus and Wayne [Ellington] and Danny, 'You're going to be hit by a screen, you've got to be tough enough and patient enough to get through it. And a guy's going to cut on the baseline, and he's going to stop and cut the other direction, and you've got to be tough enough and patient enough to continue trying to play the defense for 35 seconds.'" ...
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