“Coach Williams is the greatest. I’m Hubert,” Hubert Davis said at his introductory press conference. “As I said before, the only thing I need to do, is to do this job with my personality and in my shoes.”
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“Coach Williams is the greatest. I’m Hubert,” Hubert Davis said at his introductory press conference. “As I said before, the only thing I need to do, is to do this job with my personality and in my shoes.”
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A former player under Dean Smith and 12-year NBA veteran before spending nine years on Williams' coaching staff, Davis was announced on Monday as the next head coach of the North Carolina men's basketball team, and first Black head coach in program history, following Williams' retirement on April 1.
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“I am grateful to say that with prayer, discussion with Coach Williams, Coach Davis and other coaches and my family, I will test the NBA Draft process,” Bacot wrote in a statement on Twitter.
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Hubert Davis will be the new head coach of the North Carolina men's basketball team, the Raleigh News & Observer reported on Monday. Davis, an assistant coach on Roy Williams' bench for the past nine years and a player at UNC under Dean Smith from 1988-1992, will ascend to the position after Williams announced his retirement on April 1. He will be the first Black head coach in program history.
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Dean Smith inherited a program in turmoil and built it into a powerhouse. A half-century later, Roy Williams took that dying power that went 8-20 in 2002 and cut down the nets in just three years’ time.
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"I’ve been so, so lucky,” head coach Roy Williams said. “For the rest of my life, I’ll always say that I was a coach. And that’s the proudest moment of my life.”
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After 33 seasons, 903 wins and three national championships, the head coach and forever Tar Heel announced his retirement on Thursday, closing the book on a legendary career.
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NCAA basketball coaches around the country sent their regards to Williams after he announced his retirement Thursday.
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After UNC men's basketball head coach Roy Williams announced his retirement on Thursday, senior writer Brian Keyes reached out to several previous sports editors of The Daily Tar Heel to ask them about their thoughts on the moment and their memories of the Hall of Fame coach. Here's what they had to say.
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UNC students reacted to coach Williams' impact on campus culture and their time at UNC. "It’s been both humbling and inspiring to watch a leader like coach Williams accomplish the feats he has accomplished. Roy Williams will forever be a Tar Heel," first-year Vance Young said.
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There’s been an outpouring of congratulations, anecdotes and thank-you's from former UNC players. The consensus? Roy Williams made an impact far beyond the basketball court.
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With the retirement of legendary UNC head coach Roy Williams, North Carolina is faced with the reality of establishing a new recruiting strategy.
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After 33 seasons of Division I head coaching, UNC men's basketball head coach Roy Williams announced he'd be stepping away from the game. So now, the Tar Heel faithful are faced with the question they never wanted to ask themselves: Who could replace Roy?
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Roy Williams, the head coach of the UNC men’s basketball team and a 2007 Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, is retiring, the athletic department announced on Thursday.
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Although there were some bumps and bruises, the young core of players on the North Carolina men's basketball team was a key reason the team was able to return to the NCAA Tournament.
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The doughnut is Boston Crème, Williams’ favorite type of Dunkin’ doughnut, and it’s topped with Carolina Blue icing. For each doughnut sold, 50 cents will be donated to the UNC Children’s Hospital and Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina.
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In a statement released by the UNC athletic department, first-year center Day’Ron Sharpe of the men’s basketball team announced today that he is forgoing the remainder of his college eligibility and will declare for the 2021 NBA Draft.
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There’s a reason people don’t like endings. Endings are abrupt and often unforeseen. Endings are final and resolute as they dissolve any and all hopes of a next time. But for the UNC men's basketball team, Friday night's 85-62 loss to Wisconsin in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament was a fitting way to end this unique season.
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Normally, the first weekend of March Madness is a celebration for North Carolina. One filled with anxiety — but the anxiety of a team with title aspirations, looking to roll through lower- and middle-tier opponents on the way to the Sweet 16. But this March, it was different.
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