After struggles and doubts, Roy Williams is elite once again

Posted Mar 27, 2011
A win over fourth seed Kentucky would earn Roy Williams the eighth Final Four trip of his 23-year career at Kansas and UNC. All it took was a humbling NIT season, the premature departures of four key players, a bumbling November performance in Puerto Rico and the hardest year of his professional life for the 60-year-old coach to realize just how good he's got it. (Sports Illustrated)

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