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
felt home road supposed
Man, this is supposed to be our home stadium. This felt like a road game.
coach concentration effort gone gotten season team wants
I think this team has done something that every coach wants to do, and that is gotten better as the season has gone along. They've put the effort and the concentration in to make that happen.
hanging heads prove
We have a lot to prove and we're not going to come out here hanging our heads down because we had a 6-10 season. This is a new year.
ball basket drive fresh good job looks missed second stay talked tried trying tyler
Tyler was something in the second half. We talked about trying to drive the ball to the basket and try to get good spacing and I think we did a much better job of that in the second half. We tried to stay fresh on J.J. but he got some good looks and just missed them.
cut dickens forty hard imagine meeting minutes practice seven sneeze time worked
I can't imagine what in the dickens went on in a meeting where you'd cut practice times to 40 minutes. Now they're making you practice twice. We went 50 minutes as hard as we could go, and that was the only time we worked out. Now, we've got to go somewhere. Forty minutes? I can sneeze seven times in 40 minutes.
coach focused fourteen fun neat practice team win
Fourteen years ago I thought it was neat to win this award, and now I'm so much more appreciative of it. From the first day of practice this team was fun to coach yet they were focused on what they had to do.
believed best country hope played team unless win
I am confident, and I hope it isn't cockiness, but I told them that I thought we were the only team in the country that could come in here and win this game. I believed that we could if we played. We couldn't come in here and win unless we played our best game.
deeply
I am deeply saddened to say there was evidently a mistake.
favor happened ncaa pushed remains whether
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.
eyes gonna lit rest throw
I didn't really think he was gonna throw the ball, ... My eyes lit up and the rest is history.
david front
Nobody's ever done anything better than David Noel. David Noel has never put anything in front of his team. He's pretty special.
beats days fired happened nine reasons somebody virginia
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.
call
Let's call it what it was. A blowout.
asked freshmen hit somebody tough walls
Somebody asked me if I thought our freshmen had hit the wall. At every tough practice, or tough loss, I think they think it's the wall. It's just that there's a lot of walls out there for you.