The likelihood of Roy Williams having another locker room full of weepy kids is fading.

It is still four wins to his first national title, but March’s most tormented and tearful coach is simply not in Kansas anymore.

Maybe a national championship will allow Roy Williams to finally let go of Lawrence, where he always said he would stay.

Maybe he can stop reminding everyone how agonizing it was to leave the Kansas job and just admit he couldn’t say no to Dean Smith and Chapel Hill twice.

Roy Williams turned out to be the Rick Pitino and the Pat Riley of Lawrence, passing through and making the masses believe before he grew restless.

Which any coach has a right to do. But he needs to let go — especially if his team wins it all.

With respect to Williams’s very best Kansas teams, this North Carolina crew is far and away the most gifted college basketball team in the country.

Who knows? If the Tar Heels advance to the Final Four this weekend at the Syracuse regional, Roy Williams may not even be asked on national television where he wants to work next season.

Two NCAA tournament games, two defining routs. The Tar Heels did not win as much as they emasculated their opponents last weekend in Charlotte, winning by 27 and 28 points.

Raymond Felton stutter-steps past everyone. Sean May, the son of Indiana’s Scott May, uses his rump and forearms to punish opposing big men.

Rashad McCants lights it up from the perimeter. And Marvin Williams was good enough to declare himself for the NBA draft, like, yesterday. The 6-foot 9-inch, elongated, gifted freshman forward had 12 points and 10 rebounds in the second round against Iowa State — by halftime.

A national title in Carolina, post-Dean, would be huge for Chapel Hill. But it might be even more cathartic for Roy Williams.

It’s ridiculous to hold a great coach to the flame for annually losing in a single-elimination tournament. Still, like Jim Boeheim before him, no one will be able to say Williams loses the big ones.

He won’t need approval from all those jilted Kansas souls. He won’t have to feel guilty about winning with players Matt Doherty recruited to Carolina.

He won’t feel bad about the man who took his old job, Bill Self, losing to Bucknell in the first round with players Roy Williams recruited at Kansas.

Maybe Roy Williams can be at peace with his decision and stop sounding in countless interviews like the boss who fires an employee and then tries to make him feel good about his decision.

It’s time to let go and not expect the Jayhawks legions to still attend worship. It’s time for Williams to stop worrying about what everybody in Lawrence thinks and move on. He was the one who left. What’s done is done.

After all those great teams and exceptional players — all the frustration — Williams may be closer with this group than he’s ever been.

Premier players are needed to win a national championship. Williams has more thoroughbreds left in the tournament than any other school.