Roy Allen Williams: American basketball coach

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Roy Allen Williams (born August 1, 1950) is an American basketball coach, currently the head coach of the men’s basketball team at the University of North Carolina. After averaging nearly an 80% win percentage in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, he became the eighteenth head coach at North Carolina when he replaced Matt Doherty in 2003. He is second all-time for most wins at Kansas behind Phog Allen. Additionally, he is sixth all-time in the NCAA for winning percentage. Williams has taken his teams to seven Final Fours in his careers at Kansas and North Carolina (fourth all- time in NCAA history) and is one of only two coaches (along with Rick Pitino) in NCAA history to have led two different programs to at least three Final Fours each. From 1990 to 2009, Williams led his teams at Kansas and North Carolina to 20 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (second all-time) and earned at least one victory in each appearance, achieving the all-time record for most consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances with a win.
Williams is the fourth active coach, and thirteenth overall, to win multiple National Championships. In 2007, Williams was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Williams coached 15 seasons at Kansas (from 1988–2003). During that time he had a record of 418–101, a .805 winning percentage. He is second on the Jayhawks’ all time win list behind Phog Allen. Williams’s Kansas teams averaged 27.8 wins per season. Kansas won nine regular-season conference championships over his last 13 years. In seven years of Big 12 Conference play, his teams went 94–18, capturing the regular-season title in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2003 and the postseason tournament crown in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
When Williams came to North Carolina, it was hoped that he would restore a measure of stability to the program. In his first season, North Carolina finished 19–11 and returned to the national rankings for the first time since the early part of the 2001–02 season. Williams was named Coach of the Year for 2005 for his ability to turn around such a new team to such a high level of success. He is only the seventh coach in history to win the award twice and the second to do it at two different schools. He was also awarded as Naismith College Coach of the Year (1997), Big 12 Coach of the Year (1997, 2002, 2003), John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2003), ACC Coach of the Year (2006, 2011) Roy Williams was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 1, 2007. Williams was named by Forbes as America’s Best College Basketball Coach in February 2009 Sporting News named Wiliams Coach of the Decade for the 2000s
In 2009, Algonquin Books published Williams’ autobiography, "Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court," co-written by Tim Crothers. In the book, Williams discusses his life, including that of his difficult childhood, the highs and lows of his successful coaching career and the difficult and agonizing decision to leave Kansas for North Carolina in 2003.