Roy Williams (basketball)
Williams at a North Carolina press conference
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head Coach |
| Team | North Carolina |
| Conference | ACC |
| Record | 398–115 (.776) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
August 1, 1950 Marion, North Carolina |
| Playing career | |
| 1968–1969 | North Carolina (J.V.) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1973–1978 | Charles D. Owen HS |
| 1978–1988 | North Carolina (assistant) |
| 1988–2003 | Kansas |
| 2003–present | North Carolina |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 816–216 (.791) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3× NCAA Division I Tournament Championships (2005, 2009, 2017) 9× NCAA Regional Championships - Final Four (1991, 1993, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017) 3× ACC Tournament championships (2007, 2008, 2016) 8× ACC regular season championships (2005, 2007–2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017) 3× Big 12 Tournament championships (1997–1999) 4× Big 12 regular season championships (1997, 1998, 2002, 2003) 1× Big Eight Tournament championship (1992) 5× Big Eight regular season championships (1991–1993, 1995, 1996) |
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| Awards | |
| 2× AP Coach of the Year (1992, 2006) 1× Naismith College Coach of the Year (1997) 2× Henry Iba Award (1990, 2006) 2× ACC Coach of the Year (2006, 2011) 3× Big 12 Coach of the Year (1997, 2002, 2003) 4× Big Eight Coach of the Year (1990, 1992, 1995, 1996) John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2003) |
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2007 |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 |
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Roy Allen Williams (born August 1, 1950) is an American college basketball coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels. He first 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 consecutive NCAA tournaments, collecting a .805 win percentage and winning nine conference titles over his fifteen-year span.
In 2003, Williams left Kansas to return to his alma mater North Carolina, replacing Matt Doherty as head coach of the Tar Heels. Since returning to North Carolina, Williams has won three national championships, eight Atlantic Coast Conference conference titles, one AP National Coach of the Year award, and two ACC Coach of the Year awards. He is second all-time for most wins at both Kansas (behind Phog Allen) and North Carolina (behind mentor Dean Smith).
Williams is currently ranked seventh in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 816 games to date. Williams has taken his teams to nine Final Fours in his careers at Kansas and North Carolina. He is the only coach in NCAA history to have led two different programs to at least four Final Fours each and the only basketball coach in NCAA history to have 350 or more victories at two NCAA Division 1 schools. He is also tenth all-time in the NCAA for winning percentage among men's college basketball coaches.
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