I am ALWAYS a Kansas fan… unless Roy Williams is NOT playing Kansas. Then, I am a HUGE Roy Williams fan.

From the moment he came to KU in 1989 and took a program on probation and molded it into a perennial powerhouse, I have loved the way this man has coached and mentored and lived his life. It broke my heart when he left for North Carolina, but I couldn’t argue the move. He had turned them down once. He just couldn’t do it again.

Roy Williams won a championship at Carolina when he first got there. The knock on that championship was those weren’t his players. He hadn’t recruited them. He can’t win “the big one” with players he recruits. This time it’s all his.

There are great coaches in the game of college basketball, and this man deserves to be mentioned in that company. Not just for the big game that is finally his, but for integrity in a game that desperately needs it.

Congratulations, Coach Williams.