North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams is calling it a career.
The 70-year-old college basketball coaching legend announced his retirement on Thursday via a press release from the University of North Carolina.
Williams will address the media on his retirement in a press conference at 4 p.m. ET.
The 2007 Naismith Hall of Fame inductee is regarded as one of the greatest college basketball coaches of all time.
He began his career at the University of Kansas in 1988 and coached the Jayhawks where he won a Big Eight tournament, three Big 12 tournaments and led the team to four Final Four appearances in 1991, 1993, 2002 and 2003.
Following the 2003 season, he was hired by his alma mater, North Carolina, where he won three NCAA Championships in 2005, 2009 and 2017 and three ACC tournaments in 2007, 208 and 2016.
Williams ranks third all-time in Division I history with 903 wins and reached 900-win plateau in fewer games (1,161) and seasons (33) than any other coach in NCAA history.
He is the only coach in NCAA history with 400 wins at two different schools and was named Consensus National Coach of the Decade from 2000-09.
In total, he led Kansas and UNC to nine Final Four appereance – the fourth-most all time for any coach --- and his 79 NCAA Tournament wins ranks second all time.
Williams has coached four National Players of the Year, six ACC Scholar-Athletes of the Year, 10 consensus First-Team All-Americans, 17-First-Team All-Americans and three Bob Cousy Award winners.
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