RALEIGH - North Carolina coach Roy Williams is used to playing the waiting game with recruits -- and now he's doing it with Tar Heels testing the NBA Draft waters.

It might be three or four more weeks before Ty Lawson, Danny Green and Wayne Ellington decide to go pro or return to UNC, Williams indicated Thursday.

None of the three has hired an agent, and they have until June 16 to withdraw their names from the June 26 draft.

"I'm losing sleep over it probably, but not because it's a long window [of time]," said Williams, talking before his induction into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Thursday night. "I'll be with them, continue discussions, trying to get information and share it with them."

While that trio would make the Tar Heels considerably stronger, there's no shortage of talent in Chapel Hill.

Joining the 2008-09 team will be 6-foot point guard Larry Drew, 6-8 power forward Ed Davis and 6-11 center Tyler Zeller.

"Larry is a true quarterback, pass first, a thinker out on the court, very gifted,'' Williams said.

"Zeller is a big kid with great skills, a wonderful shooter who won the 3-point shot contest in the Derby Classic."

The shoestring play

Former Duke quarterback Leo Hart, one of eight Hall of Fame inductees, can always stir an audience with his shoestring story.

"How would you like to have played in over 2,000 plays at Duke, and the play most people remember you for is sitting down on the job, tying your shoe?" he asked.

Hart is referring to the famous "Shoestring Play" that Duke -- coached by Tom Harp -- executed to perfection in a 17-13 win over North Carolina in 1969.

Hart kneeled near the sideline, pretending to tie his shoe. While UNC's defensive team huddled, Marcel Courtillet flipped the ball to Wes Chesson, who rambled 53 yards for a TD.

"The easiest touchdown I ever scored," Chesson said.

Hart, recruited heavily by Duke's Hal McElhaney, did more than football trickery. He passed for 6,116 career yards and is the only ACC QB to lead the league in total offense and passing yardage three times.

A few words

Short shots from the 2008 Hall of Fame inductees during a news conference Thursday at the N.C. Museum of History:

* "Without Dale Earnhardt, I'm sure I wouldn't be here tonight." -- Richard Childress, of Richard Childress Racing.

* "Here I am again with all these great coaches and great athletes, and I still can't play a lick." -- Bill Hensley, one of the founders of the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame.

* "Being born in Kansas and raised in Southern California, I've always felt North Carolina was my home." -- Ken Huff, UNC football star and Super Bowl champion with the Washington Redskins.

* "Thanks to North Carolina. ... I've been to 97 countries, but there's no place like the U.S.A." -- Fred "Curly" Neal, Harlem Globetrotters legend

* "I want to get closer to Bill Hensley tonight. He's rating golf courses, and that's what I'd like to do in my retirement. ... I hope I won't embarrass anyone watching me cuddle with Bill [Hensley] every chance I get." -- Roy Williams, a 2007 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee.