Awards
- Big Eight Coach of the Year (1990, 1992, 1995, 1996)
- Henry Iba Award (1990, 2006)
- The Associated Press Coach of the Year award twice. He was first honored in 1992 with the Kansas Jayhawks. He was recognized at North Carolina in 2006, as he had a surprisingly successful season after losing 96% of the 2005 championship squad's scoring productivity. He is only the seventh coach in history to win the award twice and the second to do it at two different schools.
- Naismith College Coach of the Year (1997)
- Big 12 Coach of the Year (1997, 2002, 2003)
- John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2003)
- ACC Coach of the Year (2006, 2011)
- Roy Williams was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame on April 1, 2007.
- Williams was named by Forbes as America's Best College Basketball Coach in February 2009
- Sporting News named Wiliams Coach of the Decade for the 2000s.
- In December 2009 Seth Davis at Sports Illustrated nominated Williams as one of the coaches of the decade.
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