North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams knows what teams have the potential to win an NCAA title. Williams has seen it on North Carolina’s 2005 and 2009 teams that became NCAA champions and the 1984 UNC and 1997 Kansas teams that didn’t. Williams said on Tuesday he accepted the challenge of being a heavy favorite by saying the 2011-12 team also has championship ability. “If I’m advising Carolina people, I’d say, ‘Look forward to it,” Williams said. “‘Enjoy every day and every game and see what happens.”’ The Tar Heels have everyone’s attention because they return the heart of a team that went 28-9, led the nation in rebounding, won the ACC regular-season title and reached the round of eight as a No. 2 seed before losing to Kentucky in the NCAA tournament. “It’s a target we want,” rising sophomore point guard Kendall Marshall said. “We want people to say, ‘Now we have to play Carolina.’ That’s how teams like the ’05 and ’09 teams did it.” Read more: http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=ap-ncarolina-expectations
