INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Roy Williams lost the top seven scorers from a national championship team to graduation or early entry into the N-B-A but still managed to coax a 23-and-8 mark from an inexperienced Tar Heels squad. That job has earned Williams his second A-P Coach of the Year award.<br>
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He was honored in 1992 while he was at Kansas.<br>
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Williams is the second coach to win it at two schools, joining Eddie Sutton, who won at Arkansas in 1978 and Kentucky in 1989. He is the seventh coach to win it more than once, with U-C-L-A's John Wooden the record holder at five times from 1967 to 1973.<br>
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Williams received 29 votes from the 72-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Jay Wright of Villanova had 15 votes to finish second in the balloting that was conducted before the N-C-A-A tournament. Bruce Pearl of Tennessee was third with eleven votes.<br>
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Williams is the second North Carolina coach to win the award, which was first given in 1967. Matt Doherty, whom Williams succeeded at Chapel Hill, won in 2001.<br>
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