After UCLA's loss on Saturday put North Carolina in position to be ranked No. 1 for the first time in his tenure as men's basketball coach, Roy Williams invoked the 1939 movie classic, "Gone With the Wind" in describing his reaction.

"Frankly, my dear," Williams told the media Sunday night after an 84-58 victory over visiting Florida State. "You know, one of those."

The full quote, spoken by Rhett Butler to Scarlett O'Hara was, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."

Williams averaged 25 wins and won a national championship in his first three seasons at North Carolina, but it wasn't until this week that one of his Tar Heel teams was ranked No. 1 in the country.

"I've been No. 1 before," said Williams, who spent 15 years as the head coach at Kansas, "and, if you don't finish that way at the end of the year, it means you had a good little stretch, but it [isn't] what people remember."

Matt Doherty was Carolina's coach the last time the Tar Heels were ranked No. 1, in 2000-01. Two years later he was out of a job.

Don't expect Williams to have a similar fate, not with a roster replenished by the nation's top recruiting class.

Carolina (14-1) has 10 players who have played in every game and an 11th, point guard Bobby Frasor, who has averaged 15 minutes when not hobbled by a stress fracture that has kept him out of six games.

"Normally, you try to give some sort of rational, reasonable explanation when you lose a game," Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton said Sunday. "The truth of the matter is, we got beat by a much better basketball team."

In its previous game, North Carolina had trailed by 10 points in the first half, then destroyed Pennsylvania 102-64.

"You have to play 40 minutes against North Carolina," Quakers' coach Glen Miller said. "It was a 15-point game with 8 minutes left and we wind up getting beat by 38. You want to stay away from turnovers and low field-goal percentage against this team [North Carolina] because they get out in transition and convert better than anybody in the United States."

The Tar Heels are hungry and so are their fans.

"Bojangles is going to be fired up tomorrow morning," said Williams after the Penn game, referring to a promotion that offers a free biscuit to any ticket-holder after the Tar Heels score 100 points or more.

"In some ways, that makes you cringe because you feel for the other guy, but, at the same time, it's part of college athletics. I love the enthusiasm. If it takes biscuits to make everybody stay in their seats until the very end, I guess that's OK."

Dave Leitao won his first game against Carolina as Virginia's coach, He apparently overlooked it Monday on his weekly call-in show.

Leitao said one of his first milestones would come when his Virginia teams had beaten every team in the ACC and said that UVa was hoping to add to that list at 9 tonight, when the Cavaliers visit the Smith Center.

Virginia beat then-No. 24 North Carolina last year in Charlottesville, 72-68, but the Tar Heels won two subsequent meetings, including a 99-54 thrashing in Chapel Hill, N.C., that represented the largest margin of defeat for UVa in the 96-year history of the series.

"They had players like [Danny] Green and [Marcus] Ginyard who were integral members of that team and now they're just afterthoughts," Leitao said.

Moreover, it appears unlikely that the Tar Heels will overlook the Cavaliers. On the same night that Carolina struggled early against Pennsylvania, Virginia and went on to win 108-87.

North Carolina probably would have been ranked No. 1 long before now if not for an 82-74 loss to the Zags in the Preseason NIT bock on Nov. 22.

"Virginia, with [Sean] Singletary and [J.R.] Reynolds, provides you with a lot of challenges." Williams said. "If they come out and make a bunch of shots, you're not going to beat 'em. Gonzaga saw what really happens there and last time I looked, Gonzaga whacked us."

Leitao, whose team dropped a 76-75 decision to Stanford on Sunday night, wouldn't want to play the comparative-score game with Williams.

"This is the No. 1 team in the country, not just because the polls will rank them there, but because they are," said Leitao, whose Cavaliers (9-4) have been 1-0 in ACC play for more than a month, following a Dec. 3 home win over N.C. State.

"They're [the Tar Heels] the deepest, they've got experience, they've got star-player quality, they've got every ingredient. That's our reward for getting back into ACC play. The challenge is monumental."