Roy Williams
Roy Williams
Hall of Fame men's basketball coach who gathered an incredible 80% winning record at North Carolina and Kansas. He led North Carolina to NCAA Championships in 2005 and 2009.
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 August 1950
CityMarion, NC
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We flipped a coin in the end zone, I mean past the baseline, in a high school gym in Vegas.
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You can hope and pray and hold your mouth different ways, but the bottom line is, you have to put the ball in the basket.
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We feel very fortunate, to say the least. First-round games are always difficult. If your team hasn't been through it, they have no idea how big it is.
We feel very fortunate, to say the least.
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Top to bottom, this is the most difficult I've ever been in,
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Every coach likes to have his team's full attention during timeouts. We get out there and the chairs are chained together, so you can't pull five chairs out onto the court.
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With young kids, they don't know anything about what's getting ready to happen. So you have a much better chance of trying to point them in the direction that you want them to go, and this team has been very compatible with what we've wanted them to do.
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To see Jackie, Jawad, and Melvin...they were hugging and saying a prayer...and they allowed me to join them - that was the greatest moment you can possibly have.
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Maybe 12 noon Sunday morning is too early. They may not like playing at that time. I told 'em, whatever they did last night, change it before we play again.
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Nobody's ever done anything better than David Noel. David Noel has never put anything in front of his team. He's pretty special.
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Let's be honest, we made shots. When you make shots, the whole game looks prettier.
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One of the reasons I didn't want to play Virginia was because of what happened nine days ago. If somebody beats me by 45, I'm going to be so fired up it's going to be unbelievable.
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I would be in favor of that, but whether it can be pushed through the NCAA remains to be seen. It's devastating what's happened to those people.
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Let's call it what it was. A blowout.