SI Vault: Bill Guthridge's retirement at North Carolina set off a chain reaction

Posted May 18, 2015
(This story originally appeared in Sports Illustrated's Sept. 4, 2000 issue.) Delaware basketball coach Mike Brey was eating breakfast with his wife, Tish, on the porch of their Rehoboth Beach, Del., vacation home on July 7 when he read the news in USA Today: Kansas coach Roy Williams had turned down the job at North Carolina made vacant by Bill Guthridge's unexpected retirement seven days earlier. (Sports Illustrated)

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