Roy Williams (basketball coach)

Roy Williams (2008)

Roy Allen Williams (born August 1, 1950 in Biltmore , North Carolina ) is an American basketball coach and since 2003 coach of the basketball team at the University of North Carolina (UNC).

Career

From 1968 to 1972 Williams was a UNC Tar Heels player under Dean Smith . He then coached a high school team for six years until he was accepted as an assistant coach on Smith's staff in 1978. On July 8, 1988, he took the head coaching job at the University of Kansas in, replacing Larry Brown .

With the Kansas Jayhawks he reached the Final Four tournament four times (1991, 1993, 2002 and 2003), but never won the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship . He was named Trainer of the Year four times (1990, 1991, 1992 and 1997), and in April 2003 he received the Legends of Coaching award, which apart from him only Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski , Lute Olson and Denny Crum have received.

Since April 14, 2003, Williams has been the head coach of his alma mater UNC's team, the Tar Heels, which he led to the NCAA championship in 2005, 2009 and 2017. His record as a college coach is so far 643 wins with only 163 defeats, the best record of any active coach. On January 15, 2003, he achieved his 400th victory and reached this mark as the fourth fastest in NCAA history (behind Adolph Rupp , Clair Bee and Jerry Tarkanian ).

On April 2, 2007, he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame .

literature

• Adam Lucas: Going Home Again. Roy Williams, the UNC Tar Heels, and a Season to Remember. Guilford (CT) 2004. ISBN 1-59228-551-1

See also

• List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Web links

• Roy Williams in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on hoopshall.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Peila: Let's Give UNC's Roy Williams Some Credit! In: bleacherreport.com. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).