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UNC goes silent to overcome noise

CHAPEL HILL At first, Marquise Williams reacted with a bit of confusion when Keith Heckendorf, the quarterbacks coach at North Carolina, told him UNC would use a silent cadence against Delaware last Saturday.

“I was like, (there’s) not going to be too much noise in Kenan this Saturday if it’s raining,” Williams, the fifth-year senior quarterback, said with a laugh earlier this week.

He was right about that. It rained throughout UNC’s 41-14 victory against Delaware, and the noise that a crowd of less than 40,000 produced didn’t provide too many distractions for the Tar Heels’ offense.