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UNC Basketball: The Biggest NCAA Tournament Moments under Roy Williams

By Chris Ward

CHAPEL HILL, NC - JANUARY 20: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels reacts during their game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Dean Smith Center on January 20, 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
CHAPEL HILL, NC - JANUARY 20: Head coach Roy Williams of the North Carolina Tar Heels reacts during their game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at Dean Smith Center on January 20, 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /
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UNC Basketball fans have had plenty of big moments since Roy Williams took the head coaching job.

The UNC Basketball program has been no stranger to success in their distinguished basketball history. Frank McGuire led the Tar Heels to their first NCAA National Championship in 1957 over the Kansas Jayhawks and Wilt Chamberlain.

This was really the starting point of North Carolina’s “blue-blood” pedigree.

Although Frank McGuire began the historic run the UNC basketball program, Dean Smith turned the program into what it is today; a national powerhouse.

Smith led the UNC to eleven Final Four appearances, two more National Championships, and retired as the winningest program in NCAA Basketball history.

The Tar Heels were faced with a challenge however, who could continue the Tar Heels sustained excellence?

Longtime assistant Bill Guthridge took over the program after Dean Smith retired in 1998. He led the Tar Heels to two more Final Fours but retired in 2000. UNC alumni Matt Doherty then took the reigns as the UNC coach but failed to find any success. Doherty and the Tar Heels missed the NCAA Tournament in two of his three seasons.

The UNC basketball program was at a low point and needed new blood to turn the program around.

Enter Roy Williams. The UNC alumni and Kansas head coach.

Roy Williams had the program buzzing once again and has once again brought back the status of elite that was missing for the years after Dean Smith. Here are his biggest moments in the NCAA Tournament at UNC.

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