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North Carolina’s Williams knows how to win, recruit | The Honolulu Advertiser | Hawaii's Newspaper
Posted on: Sunday, June 3, 2007

North Carolina’s Williams knows how to win, recruit

Advertiser Staff

Roy Williams led North Carolina to the NCAA title in 2004-2005.

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With eight of this year’s inductees being basketball players, it is only fitting that tonight’s featured speaker at the Hawai‘i High School Athletic Association Hall of Honor banquet is one of college basketball’s finest coaches.

Roy Williams, whose North Carolina and Kansas teams have won 80 percent of their games, boasts an impressive list of accomplishments. For instance, Williams:

  • Led North Carolina to the NCAA title in 2004-05;
  • Was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in April, 2007;
  • Won Associated Press Coach of the Year award twice (1992 and 2006);
  • Holds record for having won at least one game in the NCAA Tournament for 18 consecutive years;
  • Reached 500 wins faster than any other NCAA basketball coach.

    But one of Williams’ biggest accomplishments came as an assistant at North Carolina when he had a role in recruiting a kid from Wilmington, N.C.: Michael Jordan.
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