NEW YORK
On the night of Dec. 22, 1999, Roy Williams moved down the sideline at Allen Fieldhouse and made a beeline for Princeton coach Bill Carmody. Williams had just watched his Kansas team roll over its Ivy League opponents, an 82-67 blowout that probably would have been lost to history if not for the performance of a 6-foot-10 sophomore from Highland Park, Texas.
As Williams met Carmody at midcourt, he gestured in the direction of Chris Young, a Princeton center who had finished with 20 points and six rebounds, and had spent most of the night manhandling Kansas’ Eric Chenowith, a 7-footer garnering attention from NBA scouts.