Roy Williams (coach)

Roy Allen Williams (born August 1, 1950) is an American college basketball coach for the North Carolina Tar Heels.

He started his college coaching career at North Carolina as an assistant coach for Dean Smith in 1978. In 1988, Williams became the head coach of the men's basketball team at Kansas, taking them to fourteen consecutive NCAA tournaments, collecting a .805 win percentage and winning nine conference titles over his fifteen-year span. In 2003, Williams left Kansas to return to his alma mater North Carolina, replacing Matt Doherty as head coach of the Tar Heels. Since returning to North Carolina, Williams has won three national championships, eight Atlantic Coast Conference conference titles, one AP National Coach of the Year award, and two ACC Coach of the Year awards.

Early years

Williams was born in Marion, North Carolina, and spent his early years in the small western North Carolina towns of Marion and Spruce Pine. As a child his family relocated to nearby Asheville, where he grew up. In basketball, playing for Coach Buddy Baldwin, he was named all-county and all-conference for two years (1967 and 1968), all-western North Carolina in 1968 and served as captain in the North Carolina Blue-White All-Star Game. Williams has stated that Coach Baldwin was one of the biggest influences in his life. Williams went on to play on the freshman team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and study the game under coach Dean Smith.

Early coaching years

Williams' first coaching job was in 1973 as a high school basketball and golf coach at Charles D. Owen High School[8] in Black Mountain, North Carolina. He coached basketball and boys' golf for five years and ninth-grade football for four years, and served as athletic director for two years. In 1978, Williams came back to the University of North Carolina and served as an assistant to Coach Dean Smith from 1978 to 1988. During his tenure as assistant coach, North Carolina went 275–61 and won the NCAA national championship in 1982, the first for Smith and the second for North Carolina. One of Williams' more notable events came as assistant coach when he became instrumental in recruiting Michael Jordan.

Professional players coached

Kansas

Nick Collison
Drew Gooden
Darrin Hancock
Kirk Hinrich
Raef LaFrentz
Greg Ostertag
Paul Pierce
Scot Pollard
Mark Randall
Ryan Robertson
Wayne Simien
Billy Thomas
Jacque Vaughn
Rex Walters

North Carolina

Harrison Barnes
Reggie Bullock
Ed Davis
Wayne Ellington
Raymond Felton
Danny Green
P.J. Hairston
Tyler Hansbrough
John Henson
Brice Johnson
Ty Lawson
Kendall Marshall
Sean May
James Michael McAdoo
Rashad McCants
David Noel
Marcus Paige
J. P. Tokoto
Jawad Williams
Marvin Williams
Brandan Wright
Tyler Zeller
Coby White
Cameron Johnson
Nasir Little
Justin Jackson
Cole Anthony
Theo Pinson
Luke Maye

Head coaching record

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Kansas Jayhawks (Big Eight Conference) (1988–1996)
1988–89	Kansas	19–12	6–8	6th
1989–90	Kansas	30–5	11–3	T–2nd	NCAA Round of 32
1990–91	Kansas	27–8	10–4	T–1st	NCAA Runner-up
1991–92	Kansas	27–5	11–3	1st	NCAA Round of 32
1992–93	Kansas	29–7	11–3	1st	NCAA Final Four
1993–94	Kansas	27–8	9–5	3rd	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1994–95	Kansas	25–6	11–3	1st	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1995–96	Kansas	29–5	12–2	1st	NCAA Elite Eight
Kansas Jayhawks (Big 12 Conference) (1996–2003)
1996–97	Kansas	34–2	15–1	1st	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
1997–98	Kansas	35–4	15–1	1st	NCAA Round of 32
1998–99	Kansas	23–10	11–5	T–2nd	NCAA Round of 32
1999–00	Kansas	24–10	11–5	5th	NCAA Round of 32
2000–01	Kansas	26–7	12–4	T–2nd	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2001–02	Kansas	33–4	16–0	1st	NCAA Final Four
2002–03	Kansas	30–8	14–2	1st	NCAA Runner-up
Kansas:		418–101 (.805)	175–49 (.781)
North Carolina Tar Heels (Atlantic Coast Conference) (2003–present)
2003–04	North Carolina	19–11	8–8	6th	NCAA Round of 32
2004–05	North Carolina	33–4	14–2	1st	NCAA Champions
2005–06	North Carolina	23–8	12–4	2nd	NCAA Round of 32
2006–07	North Carolina	31–7	11–5	T–1st	NCAA Elite Eight
2007–08	North Carolina	36–3	14–2	1st	NCAA Final Four
2008–09	North Carolina	34–4	13–3	1st	NCAA Champions
2009–10	North Carolina	20–17	5–11	T–9th	NIT Runner-up
2010–11	North Carolina	29–8	14–2	1st	NCAA Elite Eight
2011–12	North Carolina	32–6	14–2	1st	NCAA Elite Eight
2012–13	North Carolina	25–11	12–6	3rd	NCAA Round of 32
2013–14	North Carolina	24–10	13–5	T–3rd	NCAA Round of 32
2014–15	North Carolina	26–12	11–7	5th	NCAA Sweet Sixteen
2015–16	North Carolina	33–7	14–4	1st	NCAA Runner-up
2016–17	North Carolina	33–7	14–4	1st	NCAA Champions
North Carolina:		398–115 (.776)	169–65 (.722)
Total:		816–216 (.791)
National champion Conference regular season champion Conference tournament champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Conference division champion