A look back: Webber’s untimely timeout helps seal UNC’s NCAA title win

North Carolina won its sixth NCAA championship Monday with a 76-69 victory against Gonzaga.

Twenty-four years before that, on April 5, 1993, another UNC team, coached by Dean Smith, was playing for the national title, this time against a Michigan squad that included Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard and Chris Webber.

With about 12 seconds left in the game and down 73-71, Webber called a timeout when the Wolverines didn’t have any left to call. Michigan was assessed a technical foul. UNC’s Donald Williams made both free throws and the Tar Heels ended up winning the NCAA championship, 77-71.

In 2002, Michigan vacated 170 games, including the 1993 title game against UNC, as self-imposed sanctions for a…