Off the cuff: Coach Roy Williams did a good job avoiding a technical foul and avoiding being critical of officials in the post-game interview.

But he will almost certainly be registering a complaint to the ACC offices against one or more of the officials after playing back the UNC-Florida State game on his DVD.

A couple of bad calls against James Michael McAdoo, including one where McAdoo never even touched the FSU player, changed the whole complexion of the game.

In fact, both McAdoo and Brice Johnson picked up their third fouls in the first half. The league officials are calling touch fouls a lot more than in the past and players, coaches, fans and journalists aren't really used to it yet.

Still, the phantom foul with 4:24 left in the first half put Carolina in a bind with its most consistent player over the previous six game sitting much of the remainder of the game.

The call was so bad that the normally pro-official announcers even commented on it. In looking at the replay, Jay Bilas said, "There's no foul there at all. He has a legitimate beef there. I didn't see anything live either." In other words, it was a phantom call by official Tony Greene, who has a blog named after him titled "Is Tony Greene on the take."

The second foul called on McAdoo was an iffy call as well as McAdoo had position on the rebound and grabbed it with his left arm as his right arm was pinned by an FSU player coming around from that side. The official said McAdoo fouled him with his right arm. Unless McAdoo were to let himself be knocked down or unless he were armless on that side, I'm not sure what he could have done to avoid that call.

It was impressive to see other guys step forward for the Tar Heels as a result of the foul trouble. Everyone who played contributed in a positive manner.

I've gotten so I despise watching Carolina games on ESPN. First, they run the same damn sports news across the bottom scroll. Second, they run Olympic results before I've been able to watch them. (I draped solid tape along the bottom of my TV.) Third, they constantly talk about other games that are coming up and players on those other teams. Fourth, at halftime they spend only about 30 seconds talking about the game that people tuned in to see. Fifth, they inundate us with promos of other games/shows coming up on their network. Sixth, they have too much power dictating when games are played. And finally after a great game, they quickly switch away to Baylor vs. Okla St. They need to schedule games two and a half hours apart not two hours. Remember when Jim Thacker et al would interview players on the court after such games and then talk about the conference implications of the result? Give me CD Chesley and Raycom any day.