The national sports spotlight is shining brightly on Houston, Texas, as the college basketball season is nearing another dramatic finish in the Final Four.
The North Carolina Tar Heels are the only No. 1 seed left in the tournament with a matchup against Atlantic Coast Conference foe No. 10 Syracuse on Saturday night.
The winner of that semifinal will play the winner from the other side of the bracket from two No. 2 seeds in Villanova and Oklahoma.
The health of Tar Heel head coach Roy Williams has been a major storyline in Houston after Williams took issue with a Washington Post article that quoted two of his former assistants and portrayed the Tar Heels head coach as struggling physically. Williams responded to the article during an appearance on the Dan Patrick Show earlier this week.
WCHL’s Art Chansky is in Houston covering the Tar Heels and spoke with Patrick about the appearance that made national headlines.
Patrick said that he “didn’t know how [Williams] would react, but I had to ask him about his health.” Patrick went on to say that it wasn’t his intention for that to be the main talking point, but that the response from Williams was “honest radio” adding “some times you have somebody on and you get something different than you thought, and that was one of those cases.”
Listen to Art Chansky’s full conversation with Dan Patrick below:
Chansky also spoke with former UNC Athletic Director Dick Baddour. This is the first Final Four appearance for the Tar Heels since Baddour announced that he would be retiring retired in 2011.
Baddour said it’s nice to be at a Final Four without the pressures associated with leading the athletic department, and that he was looking forward “to enjoy it, at least, differently than I have. And when you get a victory, it’s just all-over enjoyment.”
Listen to Art Chansky’s full conversation with Dick Baddour, in which Baddour also offers condolences after the passing of Sandy McClamroch, below.
Adam Rapp, of the Houston-based The Rapp Show, was a special guest with the Dan Patrick Show on Friday and told Chansky that he is pulling for the Tar Heels because of a friendship he developed with Malik Taylor, also known as Phife Dawg from the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, who recently passed away.
“His passion for [UNC] and college basketball in itself really was just infectious,” Rapp said. “He would come on the show. And there would be up years and down years for the Heels, but he was always a die-hard fan.”
Listen to Art Chansky’s full conversation with Adam Rapp below:
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