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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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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The attention that basketball gets here is incredible, and that's what you want. You want interest. You can have a great team, but if nobody cares, it doesn't do any good. I think there's positives, and some people will say there are negatives. But there also are a lot of positives.
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It may be satisfying to such a young team, but I don't believe it will cause them to lose their focus because they know it is so early in the season. For me personally, the polls are fine, but I really don't pay attention to where we are ranked.
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We keep competing all the time and I thought we did a much better job of that in the second half.
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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 are very fortunate to continue playing. (Virginia) made 24-of-29 free throws and those two guys, Singletary and Reynolds, made 24-of-26. We came out a little flat and our guards got in foul trouble early, so we had to use our bench extensively.
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Top to bottom, this is the most difficult I've ever been in. I believe we've got some seven to nine teams in this league that are in the top 64 in this country.
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Top to bottom, this is the most difficult I've ever been in,
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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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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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