North Carolina men’s basketball coach Roy Williams earned his 600th career victory November 29 when the Tar Heels beat Nevada, 80-73. He is the 33rd coach in Division I history to reach the milestone, and the third-fastest to get there.

“I don’t think you'll ever hear Roy Williams say, ‘I won 500 or I won 600,’” the coach said. “I’d say, ‘We won this, and we won that,’ and that’s really what I believe. I’m not being corny ... I’ve been at two great institutions; I’ve been in places that really are passionate about basketball.”

Williams, in his sixth season as head coach at North Carolina, graduated from the institution in 1972. He was an assistant there from 1978-88 and then spent 15 years as the head coach at Kansas, where he averaged nearly 28 wins per season. He took the Jayhawks to the Sweet 16 nine times and the Elite Eight five times. The Jayhawks reached the Final Four three times under his leadership.

The 600th win came behind a career-high 23-point performance from senior Deon Thompson.

“We went in the locker room and I was thinking, ‘I was just here,’ and it was for his 500th win,” Thompson told CBS. “Now I’m here for his 600th. It feels like I’ve been here forever, but it’s definitely cool to be part of coach Williams’ history and Carolina history.”