Roy Williams had answered questions about Isaiah Hicks and Justin Jackson, had talked about how North Carolina tried to counter Syracuse’s zone defense and had tried to describe the moment – winning his 800th game as a head coach. Now he looked past the cameras toward the man in the back of the room.
“Does anybody else got a question?” Williams asked on Monday night, after his team’s 85-68 victory against Syracuse, and when no one said anything he went on. “All right, I’ll leave it with this – back here is coach Buddy Baldwin. And that was my high school coach.