Roy Williams tops N.C. Hall class

Posted Feb 5, 2008

UNC basketball coach Roy Williams will be adding another Hall of Fame plaque to his trophy collection. Williams, enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame last year, is among eight accomplished sportsmen who will be inducted in the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame at a spring banquet in Raleigh. The other honorees are Tom Butters, Leo Hart, Richard Childress, Bill Hensley, Ken Huff, Jack Jensen and Curly Neal. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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