North Carolina coach Roy Williams bristles when asked about keeping in touch with Kansas University’s players.

“When I was at Kansas, Larry Brown’s staff called the players that I was coaching,” Williams said Sunday. “When I was at North Carolina my first year, Doug Wojcik (former UNC assistant) was quoted as saying he speaks to the North Carolina players. That doesn’t bother me.

“I know that I would never, ever do anything to hurt Kansas, their success and especially those players. So, yes, it does bother me for somebody to say I interfered. I did interfere because I recruited all those kids, and I cared about all those kids. But to say that I interfered was far from the truth.”

Williams said he talked to Aaron Miles once this season.

He said he talked to Wayne Simien twice.

“Twice in 12 months, and both times he called me. I’m not supposed to take a call when a former player that I’d known for six years — I’m not supposed to take that call? That’s the part that I don’t understand,” Williams said.

“I called him once, knowing that he was being operated on … The other two times, he called me, and I did speak to him. We never one time talked about basketball.”