2018-19 • COACHING STAFF TEAM RECORDS: SINGLE GAME 40 2018-19 • COACHING STAFF TEAM RECORDS: SINGLE-GAME 41 2018-19 • COACHING STAFF ROY WILLIAMS 42 2018-19 • COACHING STAFF ROY WILLIAMS 43 2018-19 • COACHING STAFF SCORINGROY WILLIAMS RECORDS On August 24, 2018, the winning percentage (.788) Tournament wins in the Williams University of North Carolina in college basketball history, era (2003-18) are more than any THE WILLIAMS FILE officially named the playing floor accomplishing that while coaching other school has in that 15-year at the Dean E. Smith Center, home in two of the most talent-rich span (Kansas is second with 36). Career: 842-227 (30 seasons) of the Tar Heels, as Roy Williams conferences in the country. UNC: 424-126 (15 seasons) Court. “Roy Williams is one of the Player Impact • Naismith Hall of Fame Williams begins his 16th season greatest coaches of all-time and Even greater is the impact he • Has the highest winning percentage as head coach at his alma mater. in a society that judges things by makes on the lives of the young (.788) of any active head coach in the His UNC teams have won three counting championships, he’s right men he coaches. nation with 20+ years experience, ranking national championships, played in there on the top shelf with the “I look back now and I can sixth all-time • Three-time NCAA champion (2005, five Final Fours and four national greatest of all-time,” ESPN analyst clearly see Coach Williams has 2009, 2017) title games. They’ve won 43 Jay Bilas said after the Tar Heels done a wonderful job helping raise • Nine Final Fours NCAA Tournament games, earning won the 2017 national title, UNC’s Joel in a critical time in his life,” • Five Final Fours at UNC nine No. 1 or No. 2 seeds, won third in a 13-year span. said Joel Berry Sr., father of the • Has coached 29 first-round NBA Draft picks, including 18 at Carolina eight ACC regular-season and three The Asheville, N.C., native and 2017 Final Four Most Outstanding ACC Tournament championships 1972 UNC graduate is: Player. “These are the years of 18 • Birthdate: August 1, 1950 and averaged more than 28 wins • a 2007 Naismith Memorial to 22, and they are such important • Education: North Carolina, 1972; 1973 and 12 ACC wins per season. In Basketball Hall of Fame inductee years. Coach Williams has kept his (Master’s) • Playing experience: UNC freshman the last 15 years, the Tar Heels (also a member of the College promise to us, because he has made team, 1968-69 have produced 10 Associated Press Basketball and North Carolina Joel a better man than when Joel top-10 finishes, 19 All-Americas, Sports Halls of Fame) first arrived at Carolina.” • Previous head coaching 16 first-team All-ACC selections, • one of six coaches to win three “He’s made me become a man,” experience: Kansas (1988-2003) 18 first-round NBA Draft picks, or more national championships said Kennedy Meeks, who finished Owen High School (1973-78) five ACC scholar-athlete of the (with John Wooden, Mike his career fifth at UNC in rebounds year awards and six Academic All- Krzyzewski, Jim Calhoun, Bob and had 25 points and 14 rebounds • Assistant coaching experience: America honors. Knight and Adolph Rupp) in the 2017 national semifinal win North Carolina (1978-88) Williams is seventh all-time in • second in NCAA Tournament over Oregon. “That hug (after • Family: Wife - Wanda; Son - Scott, wins by a Division I head coach wins (77), games (102) and No. 1 the national championship game) Daughter - Kimberly, Daughter-in- with 842. He reached 800 wins seeds (12) was all for being grateful for the law - Katie, Son-in-law - Kurt Newlin; in fewer seasons and the second- • third in NCAA Tournament opportunities, putting me in the Grandsons - Aiden, Court, Kayson fewest games in NCAA history. winning percentage (.755) among right positions, and also for being who is going to be straight up with Last year, he became the first to coaches with at least 50 games one of the greatest coaches that I’ll you and be honest with you. He win 400 games at two schools • fourth in Final Fours (nine) ever be around. He’s been a major cares for us. When Coach says he’s –424 at Carolina and 418 in 15 behind only Wooden, Krzyzewski figure in my life that I’ll always going to do something, he does it. seasons at Kansas. He is the second and Smith remember.” He really listens to us and really in wins at UNC and third at KU, Over the last 17 years, spanning “The biggest thing about Coach takes time for the people he cares programs that rank first and third, his last two seasons at KU and 15 in Williams is his loyalty,” said Isaiah about.” respectively, all-time in wins per Chapel Hill, Williams’ teams have Hicks, who scored a key basket in “He always puts his players and season. 52 NCAA Tournament victories, the final minute of the 2017 title his coaches before himself and With an overall record of 842- more than any other coach in game vs. Gonzaga. “Coach would he treats us like we’re one of his 227, he has the sixth-highest the nation. Carolina’s 43 NCAA never lie to you. He is someone sons, and you don’t find that at too 44 2018-19 • COACHING STAFF NATIONAL COACH OF CONFERENCE COACH THE YEAR OF THE YEAR 1990 (USBWA) 1990 (Big Eight - AP/UPI) 1991 (Los Angeles Times) 1992 (Big Eight - AP) 1992 (AP) 1995 (Big Eight - coaches 1997 (Naismith, The co-winner) Sporting News) 1996 (Big Eight - coaches 2005 (New York Athletic Club) co-winner) 2006 (AP, USBWA, Rupp) 1997 (Big 12 - AP/coaches) 2009 (New York Athletic Club) 2002 (Big 12 - AP/coaches) 2017 (New York Athletic Club) 2003 (Big 12 - AP/coaches) 2006 (ACC) 2011 (ACC) Bob Donnan/USA Today Images many programs,” said Berry. “When him for that because he got me to he promises us something, he really be the player I am today because of means it and he puts his all into it. his motivation and the little talks we A lot of coaches say they have it, but would have here and there. But what they really don’t mean it like Coach I really appreciate even more is that Williams does.” he not only taught me to be the player “I feel like everything he says is that I am on the court, but the person for the good of me,” said 2017 ACC I am off the court.” Player of the Year and consensus “A lot of people were doubting first-team All-America Justin me as a freshman, but one thing is Jackson. “There’s no agenda with you always believed in me,” Paige Coach. He is here to win basketball said in a memorable and emotional games, that’s his No. 1 job. But, at the Senior Night speech in 2016 that end of the day, he always considers was viewed more than 5 million us like his sons. And that’s the way times online. “You always told me: ‘I he tries to treat us. That’s a big reason believe in you, son. You’re going to why I came here, and a big reason make shots; you’re going to do fine. why I wouldn’t change a single thing You’re going to be a great player.’ that I did.” You just believed in me, and I can’t Marcus Paige, who concluded his thank you enough for that, because brilliant career in 2016 as Carolina’s that allowed me to be a confident all-time leader in three-pointers and person and helped me grow as a 11th in career scoring, said, “He cares person…And I’ve tried to be every about us as people, almost as much bit the player you wanted me to be, as he does about us as players, and but you’ve made me a better man. that’s one thing that separates him And that’s the most important thing. as a coach. He’s a great coach. He I’m 10 times a better man than when develops our game and our skills, but I got here. Thank you.” at the end of the day he cares about Career Highlights us being ready for any aspect of life.” J.D. Lyon Jr. “Coach Williams has meant a The 2018-19 season is Williams’ lot to me; he’s the closest thing I’ve 46th as a basketball coach – five “He always tells you the straight-up truth about had as a role model to my father,” years as head coach at Owen High what you need to hear, not just what you want to said 2016 consensus first-team All- School in Swannanoa, N.C., 10 years hear. That helped me not only as a player but also America Brice Johnson. “My dad as Dean Smith’s assistant at Carolina, coached me in high school and Coach 15 as head coach at Kansas and now as a person.” Williams tried to replicate how my 16 as head coach in Chapel Hill. - Tyler Hansbrough dad pushed me as a coach for the past UNC named him head coach on April 2008 National Player of the Year four years. He got on me more than 14, 2003, 10 days after he led Kansas anyone else on the team, but I thank to the NCAA championship game 45 2018-19 • COACHING STAFF ROY WILLIAMS ROY WILLIAMS BY THE NUMBERS • milestone wins: reached 100, the finals.