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Roy Williams 305-72 (.810) in Eleven Seasons Roy Williams is considered one of the finest college basketball coaches in the country. In eleven seasons at Kansas he has compiled a 305-72 record. No college coach has won more games in his first eleven years and no coach has reached the 300-win mark sooner than Williams. In the 1990's no team has won more games than Kansas or has a higher winning percentage. Roy Williams' career .810 winning percentage is tops among active Division 1 coaches. |
| Williams' teams have played in a school-record ten consecutive NCAA tournaments, have twice advanced to the Final Four, have won 25 games or more in nine of the last 10 seasons and have averaged more than 27 wins over that span. | |
| 1997 SI Article on Roy Williams | Although he was raised in North Carolina, played for North Carolina's freshman team, and was an assistant under Dean Smith for 10 years, Williams came to Kansas well versed in the Kansas Basketball tradition as a result of his long association with Smith. Dean Smith was a player on KU's 1952 National Championship team and, until taking over the helm at North Carolina, was an assistant under Phog Allen, who coached KU for 39 years |
| Roy Williams Sets Big 8 Record With 200th Win | Smith acknowledges that much of his coaching philosophy is derived from Allen. Williams, in turn, credits Smith as his mentor and has remarked that Smith would often tell his players and assistants of the tradition of Kansas Basketball. It is perhaps no surprise then that Kansas fans quickly embraced both the style with which Williams' teams play and the manner in which he approaches the game. |
Roy Williams' Honors
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