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Roy Williams retired on April 1, 2021, with the third-most wins by a Division I head coach and the sixth-highest winning percentage in college basketball history. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007, Williams was a college head coach for 33 seasons at two of the three winningest programs in the sport’s history.
Roy Williams. Roy Williams cut his teeth in basketball as an assistant under Dean Smith, learning the game from one of the greatest winners and finest teachers at any level in any sport. After spending ten years as an assistant coach at North Carolina, Williams landed the head coaching position at Kansas University in 1988 and led the Jayhawks ...
3 hours ago · Former Kansas and North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams has said many times he did not retire on April 1, 2021, because of radical changes in the sport and college athletics in ...
919-962-1154. Bio. WILLIAMS HIGHLIGHTS. • Inducted in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007. • Fourth all-time in wins by a Division I coach with 885, behind only Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Boeheim and Bob Knight. • Second-winningest coach in UNC history and third in Kansas history. • Only coach with 400 wins at two schools.
A 2007 inductee in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Williams is second among active coaches and sixth all-time in winning percentage (.778), second in 30-win seasons (12), fourth in 20-win seasons (29), has the most wins ever over No. 1 ranked teams in the AP poll (8) and has averaged more wins per season (27.7) than any coach with 800 or ...
Apr 1, 2021 · Roy Williams, who led North Carolina to three national championships and won 903 games as a college basketball coach, announced his retirement Thursday during a news conference held on the court ...
Roy Williams (coach) Roy Allen Williams (born August 1, 1950) is an American college basketball coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He started his college coaching career at North Carolina as an assistant coach for Dean Smith in 1978. In 1988, Williams became the head coach of the men's basketball team at Kansas, taking them to fourteen ...
