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North Carolina has reached an agreement with assistant coach Hubert Davis to take over the storied men’s basketball program, a person with knowledge of the situation said Monday.
The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the school hasn’t commented publicly about the search.
The 50-year-old Davis played for the Tar Heels under Dean Smith before a long NBA career, and he had spent the past nine seasons working under Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams. Williams retired last week after 18 seasons at his alma mater in a career that also included 15 years at Kansas and 903 overall victories, while all three of his NCAA championships came with the Tar Heels.
Updated: 1:53 PM EDT Apr 4, 2021 Associated Press North Carolina now faces the challenge of finding Roy Williams’ successor.The Hall of Fame coach is retiring from the Tar Heels’ storied men’s basketball program, opening the job for the first time in nearly two decades. That leaves athletics director Bubba Cunningham directing the highest-profile coaching search of his nearly decade-long tenure at UNC, with Williams set to have at least some input.Click the video player above to watch the latest headlines from WXII 12 News.“I believe we’ve got the best job in college basketball,” Cunningham said. “This job doesn’t come open very often. We need to spend a great deal of time thinking about who is the right person right now.” Williams announced his retirement Thursday, saying he no longer felt like “the right man” for the job over the past two difficult seasons. That ends an 18-season run that included three NCAA titles since he returned to
The last time Roy Williams left North Carolina, he was a virtually unknown assistant who was getting his first shot as a college head coach at tradition-rich Kansas.Now Williams is leaving the Tar Heels again with a resume chock full of honors as a.
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North Carolina head coach Roy Williams celebrates after his team s 89-72 victory over Michigan State in the championship game at the men s NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament in Detroit, in this Tuesday, April 7, 2009, file photo. North Carolina announced Thursday, April 1, 2021, that Hall of Fame basketball coach Roy Williams is retiring after a 33-year career that includes three national championships.
In the most famous picture of the most iconic moment in Carolina basketball history, Roy Williams is sitting calmly on the bench at the Louisiana Superdome. Next to him are Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge, and in front of him, knocking in a 17-footer from the left wing, is Michael Jordan.
Roy Williams has a Hall of Fame resume filled with more than 900 wins and three national championships in a career leading two of of the most storied programs i