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Head Coach
Roy Williams
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Named the 18th head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina on April 14, 2003, Roy Williams begins his seventh season at North Carolina and 22nd overall as a head coach ... a year ago, the Tar Heels captured their second NCAA title in five years and fifth overall, defeating Michigan State 89-72 before 72,922 in Detroit’s Ford Field ... North Carolina finished 34-4, including a 13-3 ACC mark in regular-season play ... led North Carolna to the 2005 NCAA title, defeating Illinois 75-70 ... earned National Coach of the Year honors by United State Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) and AP and ACC Coach of the Year by ACSMA in 2005-06 ... with a 594-138 (.811) career mark in 21 seasons, Williams has the highest winning percentage of any active coach in Division I and has averaged 28.3 win per year in his 21 seasons as a head coach ... has led his teams to 20 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances and is the only coach to win an NCAA Tournament game in 20 consecutive seasons ... inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 7, 2007 ... in 15 seasons at the University of Kansas, Williams compiled a 418-101 (.805) record and directed the Jayhawks to 14 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances - the fourth-longest streak by a coach in NCAA Tournament history ... at Kansas, Williams earned National Coach of the Year honors in 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1997 and was named the Big Eight/Big 12 Coach of the Year in nearly half (7 of 15) of his seasons in the conference ... was an assistant coach under Dean Smith at North Carolina for 10 seasons (1979-88).
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Preseason Information
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Marcus Ginyard
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Heel Hype
Coming off a season that saw the Tar Heels capture the ACC’s fourth NCAA title in nine years and 11th overall, head coach Roy Williams welcomes back six key returnees, including one starter, from a team that won 20 of its last 22 games to finish 34-4 overall ... missing from last year’s NCAA championship team are players who totaled 430 career starts, 272 blocked shots, 1,554 assists, 2,877 rebounds and 7,876 points, while earning two ACC Player of the Year awards and seven 1st-2nd-or-3rd team All-ACC honors ... North Carolina led the nation in scoring margin (17.8), was second in points per game (89.8) and has won 20 or more games in 39 of the past 43 seasons ... in Williams’ six years in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels are 103-0 in games when shooting 50 percent or better from the floor in a game ... North Carolina finished second in the ACC in field-goal percentage (.480) and finished first or second in 10 of the ACC’s 15 team statistical categories ... Deon Thompson, the lone returning starter from the NCAA championship team, averaged 10.6 points and 5.7 rebounds while starting 37 of UNC’s 38 games ...
Deon Thompson
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a two-year starter, Thompson is second among returning ACC players with 108 career blocked shots and fourth in rebounds with 496 ... Marcus Ginyard missed all but three games a year ago with a foot injury after averaging 6.9 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists while starting 39 games as a junior in 2007-08 ... Ed Davis started two games and earned All-ACC Freshman honors after averaging 6.9 points and 6.6 rebounds and finishing fourth in the ACC in blocked shots per game (1.7) ... Davis averaged 8.1 ppg in the Tar Heels’ eight post-season games, including three double-figure scoring efforts ... Larry Drew II played in all 38 games as a freshman, had six games with four or more assists and averaged 1.4 points, 1.9 assists and 9.6 minutes per game ... Tyler Zeller averaged 3.1 points and 2.0 rebounds in 7.8 minutes per game as a freshman despite missing 23 games with a broken wrist suffered in the second game of the season.
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