Basketball coach who led unranked Jacksonville University to NCAA victory dies

JOE Williams, the NCAA basketball coach who led unranked Jacksonville University to victory, has died at age 88. Williams died in Enterprise, Mississippi. He had been in hospice care after a cancer battle, according to his son Joe Williams Jr. 1 Williams was 88 Williams coached Artis Gilmore and Jacksonville University to the 1970 NCAA tournament championship game. UCLA won that game, 80-69, but Williams cemented his place in Jacksonville history. Williams also coached at Furman University and Florida State. He left Furman to take over the Jacksonville program in 1964. At a time when many coaches wouldn’t recruit Black… Read Full Article