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Roy Williams: 'I hope to coach till I can't'

Roy Williams isn't ready to ride off into the sunset just yet.

“I hope to coach till I can’t,” the North Carolina coach said Tuesday, via the Raleigh News & Observer, speaking at an end-of-season news conference.

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Williams' future was the subject of speculation at the Final Four, where eight days earlier his team lost to Villanova in the championship game. On Tuesday, after a near championship to cap a most difficult season in Chapel Hill, he put a provisional timeline on his runway to retirement.