All Opponents
Opponent W-L UAB 1-0 Ala.-Anchorage 1-0 Ark.-Little Rock 2-0 Arizona 2-1 Arizona State 2-1 Arkansas 1-0 Ball State 1-0 Baylor 4-0 Brigham Young 1-0 Brown 2-0 California 4-0 Central Missouri St. 1-0 Chattanooga 1-0 Cincinnati 1-0 Colgate 1-0 Colorado 27-1 Connecticut 2-0 Coppin State 1-0 Cornell 1-0 DePaul 4-0 Duke 0-3 E. Tennessee St. 3-0 Elizabeth City St. 1-0 Emporia State 2-0 Evansville 1-0 Fairfield 1-0 Florida 2-0 Florida State 1-0 Fort Hays State 2-0 Furman 1-0 George Washington 1-0 Georgia 3-0 Georgia Tech 1-0 Gonzaga 1-0 Hawaii 1-1 Hawaii-Loa 1-0 Howard 1-0 Idaho 1-0 Illinois 1-1 Indiana 5-1 Iona 1-0 Iowa 0-2 Iowa State 19-9 Jackson State 2-0 Kansas State 28-4 Kentucky 1-3 Long Beach State 1-1 Louisiana State 2-0 Louisville 1-1 Loyola-Chicago 1-0 Marquette 2-0 Maryland 0-1 Md.-Baltimore Co. 3-0 Massachusetts 3-1 Miami (Fla.) 2-1 Michigan 0-1 Michigan State 0-1 Middle Tennessee 2-0 Minnesota 1-0 Miss. Valley State 1-0 Missouri 14-11 Mo.-Kansas City 1-0 Nebraska 19-8 Nevada-Las Vegas 3-0 New Orleans 1-0 Niagara 1-0 North Carolina 1-1 N.C.-Asheville 2-0 N.C. State 5-0 Northern Arizona 2-0 Ohio State 2-0 Oklahoma 15-8 Oklahoma State 17-9 Oral Roberts 1-0 Pacific Lutheran 1-0 Pennsylvania 3-0 Pepperdine 6-0 Pittsburgh 1-0 Pittsburg State 2-0 Prairie View A&M 1-0 Princeton 1-0 Purdue 1-1 Rhode Island 1-1 Rice 3-0 Rider 1-0 Robert Morris 1-0 Rollins 1-0 Saint Louis 1-1 St. John's 1-0 St. Peter's 1-0 San Diego 3-0 Santa Clara 4-0 Seattle 1-0 Seattle Pacific 1-0 Seton Hall 0-1 South Carolina St. 1-0 Southern Cal 2-0 SMU 8-0 Southern Miss 1-0 SW Missouri State 1-0 Stanford 1-0 Syracuse 0-1 Temple 2-2 Tennessee-Martin 1-0 Texas 3-1 Texas A&M 4-0 Texas Christian 1-0 Texas-El Paso 0-1 Tex.-Pan American 1-0 Tex.-San Antonio 1-0 Texas Tech 8-1 UCLA 2-1 Utah 1-0 Vanderbilt 1-0 Virginia 2-1 Wake Forest 1-0 Washburn 2-0 Western Kentucky 2-0 Western Michigan 1-0 Wichita State 5-0 Winthrop 1-0 Xavier 1-0
Williams' Honors
1998 District Six Coach of the Year (USBWA)
1998 Distinguished Kansan of the Year
1997 National Coach of Year (Naismith)
1997 National Coach of Year (The Sporting News)
1997 Big 12 Conference Coach of Year (AP)
1997 Big 12 Conference Coach of Year (Coaches)
1997 District Coach of Year (USBWA)
1996 Big Eight Conference co-Coach of Year (Coaches)
1995 Big Eight Conference co-Coach of Year (Coaches)
1992 National Coach of Year (Associated Press)
1992 District Coach of Year (Kodak)
1992 District Coach of Year (USBWA)
1992 Big Eight Conference Coach of Year (AP)
1992 NABC East West All-Star Game Head Coach
1990 National Coach of Year (USBWA)
1990 National Coach of Year (Molten/Billy Packer)
1990 Big Eight Conference Coach of Year (AP)
1990 Big Eight Conference Coach of Year (UPI)
1989 National Rookie Coach of Year (Basketball Times)
What they are saying...
"Coach Williams is concerned about all phases of your life.
He's a coach, but he's also your friend. He pushes you to succeed both
athletically and academically. I know I became a better player under the
system we had at North Carolina, and Coach Williams was a part of
that."
Michael Jordan
"The thing that I remember most about Coach Williams is that as
much as he is a great coach, he also genuinely cares about his players and
their well-being. When I have a son and he's ready for college, I would
want him to experience playing for Coach Williams because he's a great
teacher, a great coach and a great person."
Milt Newton
"He's a remarkable person, someone who I look up to. He's more
than a friend, more than a coach. I'm not ashamed to say that I love the
man."
Jacque Vaughn
"Coach Williams went out on a limb when he let me come to
Kansas and I will be forever grateful. Coming to Kansas to play for him
was the best decision I have ever made."
Jerod Haase
"In my four years under Coach Williams, I became a better
basketball player, a better person and a better man and I'm going to be
successful for having played for the man."
Scot Pollard
"In the last 10 years at Kansas, Coach Roy Williams has
developed one of the premier basketball programs in college basketball
history. I'm confident everything is in place to continue this marvelous
run. His teams always play hard, play together and always play smart
basketball. He recruits quality players who are serious student-athletes
that graduate and are people of which Kansas fans can be proud. Coach
Williams cares deeply about his players and in turn, he has their respect
and loyalty. In golf, a description of the world's best golfers is to say,
'He has the whole package.' As a basketball coach, Roy Williams has that
and more."
Dean Smith
"There is no college basketball program in America I admire
more than Kansas Basketball. Jayhawk Basketball under Roy Williams stands
for a tradition of sustained excellence. Coach Williams is among the very
best teachers and competitors in the game, and he does it all with
class."
Jay Bilas, ESPN Analyst
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Head Coach Roy Williams
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Birthdate: August 1, 1950 Hired at Kansas: July 8, 1988 Coaching Experience: International Experience |
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Roy Williams, who has led Kansas to 11 straight 20-wins seasons and 11 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, will enter his 13th season as the head coach of the Jayhawks in 2000-01.
With a career record of 329-82, Williams' teams won more games in the first 12 seasons of a coaching career than anyone else in NCAA history. His career winning percentage (.800) is the highest among all active Division I coaches with at least five years experience.
Williams' teams have won seven conference championships over the last 11 years. In four years of Big 12 Conference play, his teams have gone 62-13 against conference foes, capturing the league title in 1997 and 1998 and the postseason tournament crown in 1997, 1998 and 1999.
Over the last four seasons, Kansas was a combined 116-26 - an average of 29 wins per season. Williams has led KU to 11 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances including the Final Four in 1991 and 1993.
Williams' success hasn't come easy.
He was introduced as KU's head coach in July of 1988, just months after the Danny Manning-led Jayhawks won the NCAA championship. He would face the pressures of coaching the defending NCAA champions, but without national player of the year Manning and other key members of that championship team.
Things got worse. Just weeks after taking the position, Williams learned that KU would be placed on probation for violations that took place prior to his arrival. The penalties would be severe - no postseason play in 1989, recruiting restrictions and more.
Williams couldn't have come to Mount Oread at a more difficult time.
Williams demonstrated his ability to overcome adversity and showed he is not one to back down from a challenge and an opportunity.
In his tenure at Kansas, the Jayhawks have won seven Big Eight or Big 12 Conference championships and four conference postseason tournament titles. Kansas has advanced to the NCAA Tournament a school-record 11 consecutive seasons. Under Williams, Kansas has advanced to the Final Four twice - in 1991 and 1993. In 1991, KU played Duke in the NCAA championship game.
"I could have stayed at North Carolina for another 20 years, and I would have been perfectly happy," Williams said. "But deep down inside, I always wanted to know if I could be a good head coach."
What Williams' teams have accomplished since his hiring is nothing short of remarkable. Consider:
In Allen Fieldhouse, Williams' teams have gone 160-15. The Jayhawks, from February of 1994 until December of 1999, did not lose in the Fieldhouse, compiling a streak of 62 consecutive victories.In the Associated Press Top 25, Kansas was a fixture from 1991 to 1999. The Jayhawks were ranked in the AP poll for 145 consecutive weeks until that streak ended last season. Williams' teams have been ranked in the top 10 in 142 AP polls since 1990.
The Jayhawks made Final Four appearances in 1991 and 1993 under Williams.
Williams' teams have advanced to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament five times in the last seven years.
Williams' teams have won all three Preseason NITs in which they have participated, posting a 12-0 record.
His players have garnered first team all-conference honors 11 times, first team All-America honors four times and conference player of the year three times.
Williams is on the National Association of Basketball Coaches board of directors. On the international level, he has worked as an assistant and head coach for various gold medal-winning USA teams.
"(Williams) does not throw furniture during games," wrote Bill Lyons of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "He does not profanely accost referees. He does not scream and snarl into the sweaty perplexed face of a 19-year-old who is doing the best he can. Not so much as a whiff of scandal has touched the Kansas program during his tenure."
Williams insists his players go to class and that they represent the University and community in a professional manner.
Much of Williams' idiosyncrasies come from Dean Smith. Williams worked 10 seasons under college basketball's winningest coach before coming to KU.
Williams knew from his early days in junior high school that he wanted to coach. After playing on North Carolina's freshman team in 1968-69 as a non-scholarship player, his playing days ended but his desire to coach did not. He often sat in on Smith's Tar Heel practice sessions taking notes and furthering his knowledge of the game. Williams still keeps those notes in his office.
Williams grew up outside of Asheville, N.C., in the small community of Biltmore. He attended T. C. Roberson High School, where he earned letters in basketball and baseball for four seasons. In basketball, he was named all-county and all-conference for two years (1967 and 1968), all-western North Carolina in 1968 and served as captain in the North Carolina Blue-White All-Star Game.
Williams earned a bachelor's degree in education from UNC in 1972 and gained a M.A.T. in 1973, also from North Carolina.
In 1973, Williams began coaching at Charles D. Owen Swannanoa (N.C.) High School. He coached basketball and boy's golf for five years, ninth-grade football for four years and served as athletics director for two years.
Williams joined the North Carolina coaching staff prior to the 1978-79 season.
During his 10-year stint at North Carolina, the Tar Heels appeared in the NCAA Tournament 10 times. In 1981, UNC played in the finals of that tournament, and in 1982, the Tar Heels beat Georgetown for the NCAA title.
During his tenure at Chapel Hill, North Carolina won or shared six Atlantic Coast Conference regular season titles and three ACC Tournament crowns.
Williams' first Kansas team in 1988-89, a youth-laden team, was ineligible for postseason play because of probation. Williams, however, molded that team into a squad that won 13 of its first 14 games including 11 straight, finishing with a 19-12 record.
The next season, 1989-90, Kansas opened the year with consecutive wins over Alabama-Birmingham, LSU, UNLV and St. John's to capture the Preseason NIT. After being omitted from all preseason polls, Kansas reeled off 19 straight wins and rocketed in the national polls, where it was ranked No. 1 or No. 2 for 13 consecutive weeks. A 30-5 season and an NCAA Tournament appearance helped earn Williams Big Eight and National Coach of the Year honors.
In 1990-91, Kansas faced an apparent rebuilding year. The Jayhawks, however, scrambled to a 10-4 league record and a share of the Big Eight title. In the NCAA Tournament, Kansas posted consecutive victories over New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Indiana and Arkansas to capture the NCAA Southeast Regional and earn a Final Four berth. Playing in front of 47,100 fans at the Indianapolis Hoosier Dome, Williams guided KU to a 79-73 victory over his alma mater, North Carolina, putting the Jayhawks in the NCAA title game against eventual champion Duke.
Williams' fourth season, in 1991-92, saw Kansas finish with a 27-5 record. The Jayhawks were ranked as high as No. 2 in the national polls. More impressively, Kansas won the Big Eight by three full games. The Jayhawks put an exclamation point on the season by defeating Oklahoma State in the Big Eight Tournament title game.
In 1992-93, Kansas won its third straight Big Eight crown - again by three full games - was ranked No. 1 for two weeks and posted a 29-7 record. In the NCAA Tournament, KU defeated Ball State, Brigham Young, California and No. 1-ranked Indiana to win the Midwest Regional en route to the Final Four for the second time in three years.
The 1993-94 season saw Kansas begin the year with consecutive wins over California, Minnesota and Massachusetts to capture its second Preseason NIT title in five years. The Jayhawks advanced to the Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Tournament for the 16th time in school history.
In 1994-95, Kansas finished 11-3 in the Big Eight to win its fourth league title in five seasons. With the league title and impressive non-league wins over No. 1 Massachusetts, No. 2 Connecticut and No. 6 Florida, Kansas earned a No. 1 seed in the Midwest Regional, where it advanced to the Sweet 16 for the third straight season.
In 1995-96, the Jayhawks closed out the era of the Big Eight Conference by winning their fifth league title in six years. Kansas, which had non&endash;league wins over UCLA, Utah and Indiana, earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA West Regional, where it advanced to the Elite Eight before bowing to Syracuse.
In 1996-97, despite injuries to starting seniors Jacque Vaughn, Scot Pollard and Jerod Haase, the Jayhawks established school records with an amazing 22-0 start and 29 regular season victories. With a 15-1 record in the Big 12, the Jayhawks won the league title by four games, then won the league's first postseason tournament title. After an upset loss to eventual NCAA champion Arizona in the regional semifinals, Kansas concluded the season at 34-2.
A pair of first team All-Americans - Raef LaFrentz and Paul Pierce - led Kansas to a school record-tying 35 wins (35-4 record) and its second straight Big 12 crown with a 15-1 record in 1997-98. The Jayhawks, who won the Preseason NIT in November, won their second straight Big 12 Tournament title in March.
In 1997-1998, Kansas felt the effects of playing without two first team All-Americans. The Jayhawks, however, made great strides behind seniors Ryan Robertson and T.J. Pugh and concluded the 23-10 season with impressive performances in March. KU won its third straight Big 12 Tournament title, then turned in perhaps its best performance of the season in a hard-fought overtime loss to Kentucky in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
A highly respected camp teacher, Williams taught at the Dean Smith Basketball School for 15 years, and he has directed the Roy Williams Basketball Camp at Kansas for 10 years. He also has served as a lecturer and camp director for the West German National Junior Team.
On the international level, Williams has been an active coach as well. In 1991, Williams worked as an assistant under P.J. Carlesimo at the World University Games in Sheffield, England, where the USA claimed the gold medal. In 1992, he helped coach the United States Olympic Development Team, a squad of eight college all-stars who scrimmaged the first U.S. Olympic "Dream Team." In the summer of 1993, Williams served as head coach of the USA Under-22 Team in a qualifying tournament in Argentina.
Williams, 49 (born August 1, 1950), and wife, Wanda, have a son, Scott (22), and a daughter, Kimberly (20). Kimberly is a sophomore at the University of North Carolina, while Scott graduated from UNC in 1999 after playing on the Tar Heel basketball team.
Williams was named head coach at Kansas on July 8, 1988.
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Matt Doherty |
Doherty was an assistant coach at Kansas for seven seasons, from 1993-99. He was named head coach at North Carolina in July. |
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Steve Robinson |
Robinson enters his fourth season at Florida State. He coached under Williams at Kansas from 1989-95 before a head coaching job at Tulsa. |
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Mark Turgeon |
Turgeon coached at KU from 1989-92 following his playing career. A former NBA assistant, he is in his first year at Wichita State. |
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Jay Price |
Price is a former KU student-manager who began his coaching career at Oklahoma. He enters his eighth year as a Purdue assistant. |
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Jerry Green |
Green coached at Kansas from 1989-92. He has coached the last three seasons at Tennessee after previously serving as Oregon head coach. |
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Kevin Stallings |
Stallings is in his secondseason at Vanderbilt after previously serving as the Illinois State head coach. He worked as a Kansas assistant from 1989-93. |
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Eric Pauley |
Pauley played at Kansas in 1992 and 1993, helping the Jayhawks to the '93 Final Four. He is in his fourth year at Tennessee. |
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Kevin Pritchard |
Pritchard played at KU from 1987-90, and won a ring with the 'Hawks in 1988. He was named coach of the ABA's KC Knights in August. |
