North Carolina Tar Heels basketball coach Roy Williams retires

[Omaha Steve]

Source: ESPN

Roy Williams, who has led North Carolina to three NCAA titles in his 33 seasons as a college basketball head coach, is retiring, the school announced Thursday.

The 70-year-old Williams, after a 48-year coaching career, will hold a news conference on the court that bears his name at 4 p.m. ET Thursday.

Williams has spent 18 seasons at UNC, going 485-163 while leading the Tar Heels to national titles in 2005, 2009 and 2017. He also coached the Kansas Jayhawks for 15 seasons, taking them to four Final Four appearances, prior to leaving for his alma mater.

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UNC lost to Wisconsin in the first round of the NCAA tournament in his final game, which was Williams' only first-round loss in 30 tournament appearances.



Read more: https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/31177433/north-carolina-tar-heels-basketball-coach-roy-williams-retires

[underpants]

1. Seems like a good guy. Great coach.

I’d guess the next coach is from inside the UNC program but we’ll see.

[OldManTarHeel]

2. My Guess is it will be Hubert Davis

Enjoy retirement Coach Williams . . ! We thank you for the 3 National Titles you gave us.

[NCjack]

4. +1

[P-Nutt]

3. Steve Robinson Should Get That Job

He is a former NCAA Basketball Head Coach. He is the former Head Coach at Florida State. He led the Seminoles program when they first came into the ACC. Other prominent, current UNC assistants are former Carolina standout players, Sean May and Hubert Davis.

I am a lifelong Tarheels fan, and I wept on the day that the greatest human being to ever walk this planet, Dean Smith, retired. Dean brought Roy on board as an assistant in William's early coaching career. Roy played on the Carolina JV team, and went on to become a High School coach in North Carolina. Roy joined the legendary program as an assistant alongside Eddie Fogler and Bill Guthridge. That staff was perhaps the best group to ever come together. They were all on the bench when Dean Smith led the Tarheels past Georgetown in 1982, to earn Coach Smith his first ever National Championship. Of course, some young gun named Michael Jordan played a small part in that game. Along with Sam Perkins, James Worthy, Matt Doherty, and Jimmy Black, Jordan led a team of future Hall Of Famers to the title.

Thank you Coach Williams, for rebuilding the Carolina program back into the greatest NCAA Basketball program that ever existed. The continued excellence of the Carolina program is unmatched by any other institution. Others have more banners, but none have the long term excellence that Carolina does. And it has all been done absent any hint of scandal or cheating. That is the one thing that makes me the proudest to be a Tarheel fan for life.

Go Heels, beat dook!

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Welcome to DU, P-Nutt. ❤ nt