Roy Williams (coach)

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

From 1968 to 1972 he was a player of the UNC Tar Heels at Dean Smith. He then coached a high school team for six years until he was accepted in 1978 as an assistant coach in Smiths bar. On 8 July 1988, he assumed the head coaching job at the University of Kansas, in place of Larry Brown.

With the Kansas Jayhawks, he reached four times the Final Four tournament ( 1991, 1993, 2002 and 2003 ) but never won an NCAA title. Four times he was named Coach of the Year (1990, 1991, 1992 and 1997), in April 2003 he received the Legends of Coaching award, which so far only Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Lute Olson and Denny Crum received beside him.

Since April 14, 2003 Williams coached the team as head coach of his alma mater UNC, the Tar Heels, which he led to the NCAA championship in 2005 and 2009. His record as a college coach is so far 643 wins and just 163 losses, the best record among all active coaches. On 15 January 2003, he achieved his 400th victory, and reached that mark as fourth fastest in NCAA history ( behind Adolph Rupp, Clair Bee and Jerry Tarkanian ).

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