Hubert Davis and Tar Heels Advance to Final Four

This was a year ago when Coach Roy Williams handed over the reins of Tar Hell Nation to Hubert Davis. I’m very familiar with Coach Williams because he was the coach at Kansas during Billy Tubbs’ rein at OU. What a great back and forth that was between OU and Kansas.

Roy was actually coach at Kansas when Nick Collison was a Jayhawk.

Roy Williams was a coach I greatly respected even though he coached the hated Jayhawks. When Dean Smith retired it was obvious Roy Williams would be the next coach at North Carolina. My god…after Eddie Sutton came to O State some of those games vs. Kansas were absolute college basketball classics. Great memories.

So yesterday when Hurbert Davis took the floor with his team after their win over St. Peters and became emotional describing the journey with his initial Tar Heel team, which included former Sooner Brady Manek from Harrah, Oklahoma…I have to tell you I had a tear in my eye as well.

Because at the end of the day it’s so much more than the x’s and o’s, but the behind-the-scenes human stories attached to all of these players, coaches, parents, and other family members.

Duke vs. North Carolina in a national semi-final game on Coach K’s last hurrah. Who could have written this any better?

And on the other side of the Final Four we’ve got the two coaches I want Sam Presti to interview for the Thunder job…Bill Self and Jay Wright.

Bill Self is an Edmond kid. He played high school ball at Edmond Memorial. Then he played for Eddie Sutton at O State. Then became head coach at Oral Roberts. Then at Tulsa where he got the Golden Hurricane to the Sweet 16. Then he became head coach at Illinois before landing the dream job at Kansas. Dude’s a ball coach…trust me.

Bill Self’s father died this past year. It’s tough losing your dad. But here the Jayhawks stand at the cusp of another possible national championship.

America…we got the Final Four we were hoping to get.

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