Written by DAVID GLENN
Legendary UNC coach Roy Williams once explained that his intense dislike of NC State stemmed from his early years in the North Carolina mountains, when he grew tired of obnoxious Wolfpack fans bragging about their teams’ relatively brief stretches of success against the Tar Heels for parts of the 1950s and 1970s.
Decades later, of course, Williams got his revenge. His 33-5 head-to-head mark against State is by far the best record of any head coach — for either school — in the 100-plus-year history of the rivalry. At one point, Williams even remarked that “he’d rather beat State than eat.”…