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Louisville Routs No. 12 North Carolina in Chapel Hill

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The Louisville men’s basketball team went from suffering a confidence-jarring loss against a long-struggling Atlantic Coast Conference program to handing Roy Williams his worst home loss in 16 seasons with North Carolina.

Tough to explain? Even Williams had a hard time with that.

“We never really got into the game,” he said after Saturday’s 83-62 defeat to the Cardinals in Chapel Hill, N.C. “I’d like to give you a brilliant answer as to why, but I can’t give you that brilliant answer.”

It was as mystifying a performance from No. 12 U.