According to a team spokesman, most of the tickets for Sunday's game against Nevada were sold. But the Smith Center appeared less than three-quarters full - a rather embarrassing turnout considering how hard seats are to come by come January, that it had been six days since the Tar Heels had played, and it marked coach Roy Williams 600th victory.
"Six hundred wins, I've been very lucky,'' Williams said. "I've been at two great institutions, I've been at places that really are passionate about basketball. I wish some of our fans who weren't here tonight would get a little more passionate and get their rear ends here. That was discouraging at the start of the game. But I love those, the ones that were here. The other ones, I think I should take a camera shot, and anyone who wasn't here tonight - stop them at the door if they try to come in for Michigan State [on Tuesday]. Tell them I sold their dad-gum ticket."
