Roy Williams Basketball News & Bio
| Name: | Roy Williams | | Hometown: | Marion, NC | | High School: | T. C. Roberson | | Born: | August 1, 1950 (76) | | Notes: | 3x NCAA Championship coach at UNC (2005, 2009, 2017), Basketball Hall of Fame |
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Tony Bradley ready to be Tar Heels next starThe Tar Heels didn’t have their usual top recruiting class in 2015, instead Roy Williams built his team around previous classes. But that didn’t last...
Fri Apr 1, 2016
Roy Williams' suggestion to Dean Smith -- and it workedRoy Williams remembers his first Final Four trip with UNC, and coach Dean Smith's "whole philosophy was to keep everybody away." That was 1981, Williams'...
Fri Apr 1, 2016
Carolina keeps plan the same against familiar Orange foe
Amidst all the Final Four hoopla, there is one focus for the Tar Heels in North Carolina versus Syracuse round three: Roy Williams is, "trying...
Fri Apr 1, 2016
Roy Williams values special bonds with Baldwin, Paige
Sitting on the stage in the interview room at the NRG Stadium a few days before his team was set to play Syracuse in the...
Fri Apr 1, 2016
Lucas: Final Four Notebook
Count Roy Williams among the people who don’t necessary believe in the “hard to beat a team three times” axiom. “With the close games we’ve...
Fri Apr 1, 2016