Hot! Roy Williams Profile

The trio will forego their remaining eligibility at UNC.

The word is rarely employed these days except among aficionados of old Chrysler muscle cars and vintage comic strips.

The sophomore becomes the third Tar Heel to be named the nation's top point guard, joining Felton and Lawson.

Carolina authored an unexpected end-of-season storyline on Sunday night in St. Louis.

James Michael McAdoo leads the Tar Heels with 15 points in the loss.

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2012 ACC Championship Game

For all his accomplishments as Carolina's head coach - including two NCAA championships, three Final Fours and more than 200 wins in just eight seasons - the 2010-11 season may have been Roy Williams ' finest body of work. The Asheville, N.C., native led the Tar Heels to a 29-8 record, the ACC regular-season championship, a No. 2 seed in the NCAA East Regional and a spot in the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight.

UNC accomplished that despite having lost 13 players in the previous two years, including the team's leading returning scorer a week before practice began in October and another starter midway through the conference schedule. The Tar Heels went 14-2 in ACC play, but did not have a single player make the All-ACC first-team or earn ACC Player of the Week honors even one time. Carolina started two freshmen, two sophomores and a junior for much of the season, and only one player who started a game in the 2010 NIT started in the 2011 NCAA Tournament.

The Tar Heels began the season ranked eighth in the Associated Press poll, fell out of the Top 25 completely for nine weeks at mid-season, but climbed back into the rankings in late January and finished No. 7 in the final poll.

Williams was named ACC Coach of the Year for the second time and also won district coach of the year honors by the USBWA. The Tar Heels finished atop the ACC standings for the fifth time in the last seven years - Williams' teams have finished first in the Big 8/12 or ACC 14 times in his 23 seasons as a head coach.

A member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and College Basketball Hall of Fame, Williams has led Carolina to national championships in 2005 and 2009, another Final Four in 2008, additional Elite Eights in 2007 and 2011, four NCAA Tournament No. 1 seeds, six Associated Press Top 10 final rankings, five ACC regular-season titles, two ACC Tournament crowns, four 30-win seasons and developed nine first-round NBA draft picks.