Welcome to the only place in North Carolina where Roy Williams is bigger than Dean Smith

Posted Jan 3, 2020
From his home in Black Mountain, it takes Porky Spencer about three hours and 15 minutes to drive to Chapel Hill, straight down the mountain and into the Piedmont on Interstate 40. Spencer has been making that drive about 16 times per year, every year, since 2003. That’s when Roy Williams came home to be the head basketball coach at North Carolina. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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