Before Roy Williams became North Carolina’s second-winningest coach in program history, he was an assistant on Tar Heels legend Dean Smith's coaching staff for 10 years.
North Carolina won a national championship 1982 when Williams served as an assistant for Smith, and six years later, Williams left to become the head coach and Kansas. But before Williams’s first North Carolina tenure ended, he was courted for a job opportunity by the Indiana coach Bob Knight.
In a conversation with Sports Illustrated's Jon Wertheim on Wednesday, Williams recalled the moment Knight approached Smith about adding someone to his staff
“Coach Smith said to Coach Knight, ‘Well, who are you looking for?