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9th Ranked North Carolina, Top Ranked Kansas Who Were Both Coached By Roy Williams Are Opposing Each Other Friday Night In Lawrence Kansas

From 1988 -2003 Roy Williams was the Head Coach of Kansas!

As the Head Coach of Kansas Roy Williams had a record of 418 -101!

From 2003-2021 Roy Williams was the Head Coach of North Carolina where he had a record of 485 wins 163 losses!

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/roy-williams-1.html

While the Head Coach of North Carolina Roy Williams North Carolina won three National Titles

While the Head Coach of Kansas Roy Williams Kansas reached four Final Fours and won nine conference championships.

According to Andrew Carter News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article294996414.html

9th ranked North Carolina , top ranked Kansas who were both coached by Roy Williams are opposing each other Friday night in Lawrence Kansas!

Where?

On the hardwood!

North Carolina is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference comes into the game with record of 1-0 because they won their season opener Monday night in Chapel Hill 90-76 over Elon where RJ Davis scored 24 points.

As 9th ranked North Carolina tipoff 2024-2025 season with 90-76 win over Elon Monday night in Chapel Hill RJ Davis was 7-19 on field goals 3-11 on 3 pointers to go along with 7 rebounds, 7 assists..

According to espn app

Following 9th ranked North Carolina tipping off 2024-2025 season with 90-76 win over Elon Monday following RJ Davis scoring 24 points North Carolina Head Coach Hubert Davis had this to say!

This is a great learning experience for us because people are going to play zone, we’re going to play against teams that have tremendous size, we’re going to have to rebound [and] dominate points in the paint,”

Though,

Head Coach Hubert Davis wasn’t the only Davis to share his thoughts as North Carolina leading scorer R.J Davis who was 7-19 on field goals 3-11 on 3 pointers to go along with 7 rebounds, 7 assists had this to say!

“I think we have a lot to work on, especially defense,” he said, later adding. “They scored off our mistakes a lot. We weren’t in the right spots. We missed a couple switches on the defensive end. Little stuff like that.”

According to Shelby Swanson News & Observer article https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article295001294.html

Like, 9th ranked North Carolina topped ranked Kansas who is a member of the Big 12 won their season opener with 87-57 win over Howard Monday in Lawrence Kansas.

As top ranked Kansas won 87-57 over Howard three players scored in double figures. Hunter Dickinson was 5-8 on field goals , 1-1 on 3 pointers to go along 6 rebounds, 1 assists , 16 points. Flory Bidunga was 6-6 on field goals to go along with 8 rebounds , 13 points. Zeke Mayo was 7-12 on field goals , 5-8 on 3 pointers to go along with 4 rebounds , 19 points.

According to espn app

Following Kansas 87-57 win over Howard Monday in Lawrence Kansas Head Coach Bill Self had this to say about Hunter Dickerson about his teams 3 point shooting about his teams overall performance on opening night of 2024-2025 College Basketball season!

A guy that had lost some rhythm, out of sorts a little bit. But he needed to be out there. I mean, that was great for him to be out there. That was perfect. So I thought he did fine. He's so unselfish, and he's just such a good teammate and a good passer, everything. But you could tell, obviously, he didn't have his legs yet, and it was a little out of whack. But still, guy doesn't play much and can still get 16."

We weren't any good the first exhibition. But I think we got pretty good shooters. You know, Rylan obviously didn't shoot it tonight like he's capable of shooting the ball. But Zeke has shot it at a very high clip, but, but I guess the main guys out there that played, they were probably, what, 10 of 18 or 10 and 19, which is pretty good. So we'd take that most every night."I thought to start the game, we were pretty good. Yeah, I don't know how you guys thought. I thought we looked fast. I thought we looked athletic. I thought we pitched ahead and we ran a transition better than what we had been. And I thought defensively, I thought we really pressured them and did some good things and we had no steals at all the first half until 10 seconds left or five seconds left in the half. So we didn't create a lot of havoc but I thought we were pretty sound. And second half we just, let's finish the game. But I actually thought that we had some individuals on that second unit tonight play well and had a couple not play as well. And I thought we looked like we had maybe taken a little bit of a step backwards when we wholesale subbed, which we won't do much moving forward. But I thought there were some good things, some different combinations. And I actually thought Flory looked pretty good tonight. He's so athletic, and that's steal he made in the open court to finish like that as a center. That's that's pretty good."

According to Michael Swain 247 Sports article!https://247sports.com/longformarticle/bill-self-kansas-basketball-postgame-quotes-ku-vs-howard-239227228/#2533275

Tip off is set for 7:00pm Eastern Time 6:00pm Central Time from Allen Field House!

The game is going to be televised on ESPN2 with Jay Bilas, Dan Shulman commentating!

Jay Bilas is a former Duke center who played for former Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski from 1982 -1986 playing 127 games averaging 8.4 points 5.4 rebounds, 0.4 assists before drafted 5th round of 1986 15th pick 108th pick overall in the 1986 NBA Draft. Though, Jay Bilas would never set foot on the hardwood for Dallas because he instead he would play professionally in Italy where he was among the leagues top scores in 1987-1988 seasons before playing professionally in Spain for part of the 1989 season before returning to Duke in 1990 to serve as an assistant coach on Krzyzewski’s staff, while also earning his law degree from Duke Law School. While Bilas was an assistant coach under Krzyzewski, the Blue Devils advanced to the NCAA Championship Gem three times, winning back-to-back National Championships in 1991 and 1992.

According to https://espnpressroom.com/us/bios/bilas_jay/