Five candidates to replace UNC's Roy Williams if he leaves

HOUSTON – Ol' Roy Williams came onto the interview dais at the Final Four on Thursday and, doggone it, took a stand. He criticized an article from The Washington Post that he later admitted he hadn't read—the kind of delusional things coaches in their twilight say when there's no administrators around brave enough to tell them how foolish they sound. "I was very disappointed in the article," Williams said. Followed soon by: "I never read the article, never will read the article."

Williams often terms distractions as "junk," and no one produced more of it than the veteran North Carolina coach on Thursday. This went beyond Williams's hokey repertory of "dickens" and "doggone." Williams had two…