CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Roy Williams, the star of this week’s “Sports Legends of the Carolinas,” is probably a well-known name to you and to most sports fans.
What you won’t know, however, is all of the stories Williams tells in this wide-ranging 90-minute interview — tales about Michael Jordan, Dean Smith, Duke, what Williams considers to be the greatest shot in UNC history (it wasn’t Jordan’s), why he once grew a mustache, the two best teams he coached that didn’t win a national title and many more.
For those who need a brief refresher course, Williams is the Hall of Fame basketball coach who won three national championships in 18 years as the head coach of the University of North Carolina from 2003-2021. Williams grew up in western North Carolina, graduated from UNC in the early 1970s, spent 10 years as an assistant coach for the legendary Smith in Chapel Hill and then left to become Kansas’ head basketball coach from 1988-2003.
