It is hard to lose deep into the tournament, NCAA.
Even more difficult to lose to Kansas.
"There is no way to express in words how we feel. There is no way to put into words what I feel," Williams said, finally. "This tournament is NCAA. Team wins and one team loses."
Playing without injured point guard Kendall Marshall for the second consecutive game, seeded North Carolina was unable to contain Tyshawn Taylor on Sunday. Key piled 22 points to Kansas in the 80-67 victory that sent the Jayhawks to the Final Four.
And the Tar Heels to Tobacco Road.
"You hurt me. You hurt your team," said Williams, who led Jayhawks to four Final Four. "You hurt me for these children than for 34, 35 minutes, were part of a fantastic game of basketball.
"Over the last four or five minutes," he said, "They played better than us."
The second seeded Jayhawks (31-6) can finally clean up their upset loss last season to commemorate participation in the regional finals. They will play Ohio State on Saturday in his first trip to the Final Four since 2008 when they won the national championship.
Player of the Year candidate, Thomas Robinson added 18 points and nine rebounds against the Tar Heels, and Elijah Johnson had a rapid tournament with 10 points, his 3-point play with 3:07 to Kansas sparks 12-0 run late in the match.
"We knew we had to do, and we did," Taylor said in the locker room. "This is what it came down: We did plays when we needed."
Jeff Withey made two monster block to deny the Tar Heels during the race close. One of them, he upset the prospects Taylor, whose three-point play in transition 74-67 with 1:59 left.
Jayhawks cruise from there.
"It was a game of runs," Williams said. "And we have not answered the last time."
James Michael McAdoo scored 15 Tar Heels (32-6), who lost only the third time in 12 regional finals appearances - but the second time in two years.
North Carolina has a 5: 46, not the ultimate goal of the field in the West Regional final, are sorely lacking Marshall game, which Williams called "our engine, the driver, the head of a thing."
He broke a bone in his right hand over the weekend at Creighton. After surgery to insert a screw in the Monday, he was cast removed last Wednesday, and practice a bit on Saturday. But he woke up on Sunday, and evil, it became clear that he could not play.
Marshall had another crazy night of sitting on a bench in a suit.
"It was not just stubbornness," he said. "It was the fact that I could not catch a pass."
It was only the second time Williams has faced a Kansas high school, where he spent the first 15 years as head coach with the Jayhawks in the NCAA championship game twice.
While fans relax some of Kansas, Williams is still met with boos chorus - despite the fact that it remains deeply committed to the Jayhawks, if he refuses to play for the conference. Games are just too emotional.
At least that went better than the first meeting, in the final four in 2008, where the Jayhawks walloped North Carolina on the way to win the title Williams had never been to Kansas.
Both teams have made an impressive recovery of their victories on Friday evening, an ugly, based on clear, fast-paced that there were shooting better than 56 percent after halftime.
"It's been quite a while," Williams admitted.
Stilman White played well again, filled with Marshall. Rookie can be "calibrated" and Williams said softly repeated a few days, but the child knows how to control crime. He had seven assists Saturday, giving him 13 two games without a turnover.
Jayhawks seemed to shoot a few times, only to have Carolina stagger in. But only up to the middle of the second half, Kansas, created freedom, when Travis Releford scored on a jumper to start the 8.2 run.
Taylor vortex in a limited pressing jumper and dunk revenues outside the John Hanson to give the Jayhawks 66-61 for example.
"It was a victim of someone for the first 32 minutes or something else," Kansas coach Bill Self said, "and then we had to consistently stop the defense that we have not been able to in the first 30 minutes, and made a ton of games -. Individual team plays down the stretch "
Tyler Zeller pulled the Tar Heels within two to PUTBACK, and Harrison Barnes made the first of two free throws at 68-67 with 3:58 to play. But Johnson, shooting nearly 52 percent in the tournament, drained that 3 NBA range to start the cycle decisive.
"It was a game of four points. Soon became nine years," said Zeller, who had 12 points. "Once they started to throw, he hit double digits and we know that time is running out."
About the game and your time.
White was almost in tears in the locker room of North Carolina, and the Jayhawks cut nets. His eyes were still swollen at the post-fight press conference, while Zeller tried to explain what happened down the stretch and Williams tried to keep his emotions under control.
"In the end, all I want to do is win and get to the Final Four in New Orleans," said White. "We're not quite do it."
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