The North Carolina Department of Transportation formally approved today a request by Carolina Athletics to honorarily name stretches of U.S. Interstate 40 in Chapel Hill for former Tar Heel men's basketball coaches Dean Smith and Roy Williams.
The Chapel Hill Town Council approved a resolution to support the request on November 17.
The DOT will place honorary signs designating stretches of I-40 from exits 266-270 the Roy Williams Highway and from exits 270-273 the Dean Smith Highway.
"Dean Smith and Roy Williams are two of the greatest to ever have coached college basketball," says Governor Roy Cooper.