Just two games into the 2017-18 basketball season, Roy Williams moved into a category of his own. He became the first NCAA Division I men’s basketball head coach to win 400 games at two schools.
In March 2018, the 84-66 North Carolina Tar Heels victory over Lipscomb last season in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament was the 842nd of Williams’s career.
Last week, the university announced that the floor of the Dean E. Smith Center will be named for Roy Williams.
The accolades continue to pile up for Williams, and within the next two seasons, he could reach a mark that only three other coaches in men’s Division I have achieved: 900 wins.