North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball

For the women's team, see North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball.

North Carolina Tar Heels
2012–13 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team
University	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
First season	1910
All-time record	2,090-745 (.737)
Conference	ACC
Location	Chapel Hill, NC
Head coach	Roy Williams (10th year)
Arena	Dean E. Smith Center (Capacity: 21,750)
Nickname	Tar Heels
Colors	Carolina Blue and White
Uniforms
Home Away
Pre-tournament Helms champions
1924
NCAA Tournament champions
1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009
NCAA Tournament runner up
1946, 1968, 1977, 1981
NCAA Tournament Final Four
1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2009
NCAA Tournament Elite Eight
1941, 1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
NCAA Tournament appearances
1941, 1946, 1957, 1959, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
Conference tournament champions
1922, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1935, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008
Conference regular season champions
1923, 1925, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1946, 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012

The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels have won five NCAA Tournament Championships (1957, 1982, 1993, 2005 and 2009) and were retroactively named the national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation for their undefeated season in 1924. North Carolina's five NCAA Tournament Championships are tied for third-most all-time. They have also won 17 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles and 29 Atlantic Coast Conference regular season titles (including an Atlantic Coast Conference record 19 outright Regular Season Championships). The program has produced many notable players who went on to play professionally, including Michael Jordan, and many assistant coaches who went on to become head coaches elsewhere.

The Tar Heels are currently #3 on the Division I all-time wins list. From the Tar Heels' first season in 1910–11 through the 2012–13 season, the Tar Heels have amassed a .737 all-time winning percentage (second highest all-time), winning 2,090 games and losing 745 games in 103 seasons. The Tar Heels also have the most consecutive 20-win seasons, with 31 seasons from the 1970–71 season through the 2000–2001 season. On March 2, 2010, North Carolina became the second college basketball program to reach 2,000 wins in its history. The Tar Heels are one of only three Division I Men's Basketball programs to have ever achieved 2,000 victories. The Tar Heels have appeared in the NCAA finals nine times, have participated in a record 18 NCAA Final Fours, have made it into the NCAA tournament 44 times (second-most all-time), and have amassed a total of 109 victories (second most all-time). North Carolina also won the National Invitation Tournament in 1971, has appeared in two NIT Finals, and has made five appearances in the NIT Tournament. Additionally, the team has been the number one seed in the NCAA Tournament 14 times, the latest being in 2012 (most #1 seeds all-time), has been ranked in the Top 25 in the AP Poll 808 weeks all time (#1 all-time), has beaten #1 teams a record 12 times, have the most consecutive 20-win seasons with 31, and have the most consecutive top-3 ACC finishes with 37. North Carolina has ended the season ranked in the Top-25 of the AP Poll 43 times and in the Top-25 of the Coaches' Poll 44 times. Further, the Tar Heels have finished the season ranked #1 in the AP Poll 5 times and ranked #1 in Coaches' Poll 5 times. In 2008, the Tar Heels received the first unanimous preseason #1 ranking in the history of either the Coaches' Poll or the AP Poll. In 2012, ESPN ranked North Carolina #1 on its list of the 50 most successful programs of the past 50 years.

All of these streaks ended in the 2001–02 season, when the Tar Heels finished 8–20 on the season under coach Matt Doherty. They also finished tied for 7th in conference play, behind Florida State and Clemson—only their second losing conference record ever (the first being in the ACC's inaugural season).

Additionally, the Tar Heels have an active 56 consecutive home game winning streak against Clemson, who has never beaten the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill since the first game between the two teams in 1926 at Chapel Hill (as of the 2011–12 season). The 56th consecutive win is an NCAA record in a head-to-head matchup. Until the 2010 ACC Tournament, North Carolina was the only program to have never played a Thursday game in the ACC Tournament since it expanded to a four-day format. UNC is still the only men's basketball program to have played just once on Thursday of the ACC Tournament.

Team history

Early years

Coach Nathaniel Cartmell and the 1910–11 men's basketball team

North Carolina played its first basketball game against Virginia Christian, on January 27, 1911, a 42–21 win for North Carolina. In 1921, North Carolina joined the Southern Conference. The 1924 Tar Heels squad went 26–0 and was retroactively awarded the national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936. Overall, the Tar Heels played 32 seasons in the Southern Conference from 1921 to 1953. During that period they won 304 games and lost 111 for a winning percentage of 73.3%. The Tar Heels were winners of the regular season for nine times and won the Southern Conference Championships eight times.

Frank McGuire (1953–1961)

In 1953, North Carolina split from the Southern Conference and became a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels won their first NCAA Championship under coach Frank McGuire in 1957, led that year by Lennie Rosenbluth and several other transplants from the New York City area. C.D. Chesley, a Washington, D.C. television producer, piped the 1957 championship game in Kansas City to a hastily-created network of stations across North Carolina, which helped prove pivotal in basketball becoming a craze in the state. The 1957 National Championship game versus Wilt Chamberlain's Kansas Jayhawks was the only triple overtime final game in championship history. North Carolina had defeated Michigan State 74-70 the previous night also in a triple overtime game.

In 1960, the Tar Heels were placed on NCAA probation for "improper recruiting entertainment" of basketball prospects-to date, the only time the basketball program has ever faced sanctions from the NCAA. As a result, they were barred from the 1961 NCAA tournament and also withdrew from the 1961 ACC Tournament. Following the season, Chancellor William Aycock forced McGuire to resign. As a replacement, Aycock selected one of McGuire's assistants, Kansas alumnus Dean Smith.

Dean Smith (1961–1997)

Smith's early teams were not nearly as successful as McGuire's had been. His first team went only 8–9, and his first five teams never won more than 16 games. This grated on a fan base used to winning; in 1965 some of them even hanged him in effigy. However, Smith would go on to take the Tar Heels to heights no one had even contemplated. When Smith retired in 1997, the Kansas graduate and Phog Allen disciple had the most wins ever of any NCAA Division I men's basketball coach with 879 wins, and the 9th highest winning percentage (77.6%) During Smith's time as head coach, North Carolina won the ACC regular season championship 17 times, won the ACC tournament 13 times, won the NIT in 1971, went to the NCAA tournament 27 times, appeared in 11 Final Fours, and won two NCAA national tournament titles, in 1982 and 1993. The 1982 National Championship team was led by James Worthy, Sam Perkins, and a young Michael Jordan. The 1993 National Championship team starred Donald Williams, George Lynch and Eric Montross. While at North Carolina, Smith helped promote desegregation by recruiting the University’s first African American scholarship basketball player Charlie Scott.

Bill Guthridge (1997–2000)

Smith unexpectedly retired before the start of practice for the 1997–98 season. He was succeeded by Bill Guthridge, who had been an assistant coach at the school for 30 years, the last 25 as Smith's top assistant. During Guthridge's three seasons as head coach he posted a 80–28 record, making him tied for the then-NCAA record for most wins by a coach after three seasons. The Tar Heels reached the NCAA Final Four twice, in the 1998 tournament and again in the 2000 tournament. North Carolina reached the Final Four in 2000 as an 8-seed, their lowest seeding in a Final Four appearance.

Matt Doherty (2000–03)

Guthridge retired in 2000 and North Carolina turned to Matt Doherty, the head coach at Notre Dame and a player on the 1982 championship team, to lead the Tar Heels. Doherty had little success while at North Carolina. In his first season, the Heels were ranked #1 in the polls in the middle of the Atlantic Coast Conference schedule and finished with a 26–7 record. But Doherty's second season was the worst in recent history as the Tar Heels finished the season with a record of 8–20, missing postseason play entirely for the first time since the 1965–66 season (including a record 27 straight NCAA Tournament appearances) and finishing with a losing record for the first time since 1962 (Dean Smith's first year as coach). They also finished 4–12 in the ACC—only the program's second losing ACC record ever. The 12 losses were six more than the Tar Heels had ever suffered in a single season of ACC play, and placed them in a tie for 7th place—the program's first finish below fourth place ever. The season also saw the end of UNC's run of 31 straight 20-win seasons and 35 straight seasons of finishing third or higher in the ACC. After bringing in one of the top 5 incoming classes for the 2002–2003 season, the Tar Heels started the season by knocking off a top 5 Kansas team and going on to win the Preseason NIT and returning to the AP top 25. North Carolina went on to finish the season 17–15, missing the NCAA tournament. Matt Doherty led the Tar Heels to the third round of the NIT, where they ended their season with a loss to Georgetown.

Roy Williams (2003–present)

Despite the turnaround from the year before and the NIT appearance, at the end of the season Matt Doherty was replaced as head coach by Roy Williams. Williams had served as an assistant to Smith for 11 years before leaving to spend the first 15 years of his Hall of Fame head coaching career leading Kansas to 9 conference championships and four Final Fours before Smith convinced him to return home.

In Williams' first season, the Tar Heels finished 19–11 and were ranked in a final media poll for the first time in three years. They returned to the NCAA tournament and were ousted in the second round by Texas. The following year, the Tar Heels won their fourth NCAA title and Williams' first as a head coach. After winning the championship, Williams lost his top seven scorers, but the 2005–06 season saw the arrival of freshman Tyler Hansbrough and Williams was named Coach of the Year. The Tar Heels swept the ACC regular season and tournament titles in 2007 and 2008. The 2008 ACC Tournament was the first time North Carolina has ever won the ACC Tournament without defeating at least one in-state rival during the tournament. North Carolina lost in the national semifinals of the 2008 NCAA tournament to Williams' former program Kansas.

In the 2008-2009 season, the Tar Heels won their fifth NCAA title by defeating Michigan State in the championship of the 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. The Tar Heels won all six of that year's tournament games by at least 12 points, for an average victory margin of 20.2 points, and only trailed for a total of 10 minutes out of 240 through the entire tournament. Wayne Ellington was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player, the fourth Tar Heel so honored.

The 2009–2010 Tar Heels struggled throughout the regular season finishing with a 16–15 record, and dropped to #3 in Division I in all-time wins. They later lost in the first round of the ACC Tournament, playing in the first "play-in" Thursday game for the first time since the ACC grew to 12 teams. The Tar Heels did not receive an NCAA tournament bid, and instead accepted a bid to the NIT. During the season, the Tar Heels reached the 2,000-win milestone with a home win over Miami on March 2, 2010, becoming the second fastest college team to do so (North Carolina was in its 100th season of basketball at the time of this accomplishment). The Tar Heels were able to make it to the final game of the NIT, losing to Dayton in the final game finishing with a 20-17 record.

The 2010–2011 Tar Heels, with the addition of Harrison Barnes, Kendall Marshall, and Reggie Bullock, eighth in the preseason polls, struggled out the gates, starting with a 2-2 record, the worst start since the 2001-2002 season. After losses to Illinois and Texas, the Tar Heels fell out of the rankings. The losses of senior Will Graves, to dismissal, and Larry Drew II, to transfer and also the unexpected off-season transfers of David and Travis Wear did not help matters. However, the Tar Heels improved greatly during the conference season, finishing first in the ACC regular season with a 14-2 record. Williams was named Conference Coach of the Year for his efforts of getting his team to work through the adversity to finish strong in the regular season. Also during the season, the term Tar Heel Blue Steel was coined, referencing the Tar Heel men's basketball walk-ons. The term was started by one of the players, Stewart Cooper, in hopes that it would be a replacement for "walk-ons" and other less catchy names and soon enough Roy Williams caught on, as well as the rest of the Tar Heel Nation. North Carolina lost to Duke in the ACC Tournament Finals and made a significant run in the NCAA Tournament until they were eliminated in the Elite Eight by Kentucky, finishing with a 29-8 record.

The 2011–2012 Tar Heels finished the regular season with a final record of 32-6, including a 14–2 record in ACC regular season play which allowed the team to win the conference regular season championship outright. The team fell to Forida State in the championship game of the 2012 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament. The team was a #1 seed in the Midwest Regional of the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament; the team reached the Elite Eight and was defeated by Kansas 67-80. This defeat was the second time UNC lost to Kansas in the NCAA Tournament with Roy Williams as UNC head coach. Roy Williams (coach) previously coached Kansas from 1988–2003. The loss to Kansas was also UNC's second straight loss in the Elite Eight, after losing to Kentucky the year before. Kansas later fell to Kentucky 59-67 in the National Championship Game. Before the Kansas game, the Tar Heels won their previous three games in the NCAA Tournament by an average of 13.7 points. In the second round game versus Creighton, starting UNC point guard Kendall Marshall broke his right wrist with 10:56 remaining in the second half with UNC leading 66-50. Marshall continued to play by dribbling primarily with his left hand, including getting fouled on a drive to the basket with 7:09 left in the second half. He left the game against Creighton with two minutes left with UNC leading 85-69. UNC coach Roy Williams announced Kendall Marshall's injury at the Creighton post-game press conference. Kendall Marshall did not play in UNC's two following games in the NCAA Tournament, a 73-65 overtime win over Ohio in the Sweet 16 and the aforementioned 67-80 loss to Kansas in the Elite Eight.

Streaks

The Tar Heels own several notable streaks in the history of college basketball. They appeared in either the NCAA Tournament or National Invitation Tournament (NIT) every year from 1967 to 2001. This includes 27 straight appearances in the NCAA tourney from 1975 (the first year that competition allowed more than one team from a conference to get a guaranteed bid) to 2001—the longest such streak in tournament history. The Tar Heels also notched 37 straight winning seasons from 1964 to 2001, the third-longest such streak in NCAA history, behind UCLA's streak of 54 consecutive winning seasons from 1948 to 2001, and Syracuse's currently active streak of 39 seasons from 1971 to date. They also finished .500 or better for 39 years in a row from 1962 (Dean Smith's second year) to 2001, the third-longest such streak in NCAA history.

From the ACC's inception in 1953 to 2001, the Tar Heels did not finish worse than a tie for fourth place in ACC play. From 1965 to 2001, they did not finish worse than a tie for third, and for the first 21 of those years they did not finish worse than a tie for second. By comparison, all of the ACC's other charter members finished first at least once and last at least once in that time.

All of these streaks ended in the 2001–02 season, when the Tar Heels finished 8–20 on the season under coach Matt Doherty. They also finished tied for 7th in conference play, behind Florida State and Clemson—only their second losing conference record ever (the first being in the ACC's inaugural season).

Additionally, the Tar Heels have an active 56 consecutive home game winning streak against Clemson, who has never beaten the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill since the first game between the two teams in 1926 at Chapel Hill (as of the 2011–12 season). The 56th consecutive win is an NCAA record in a head-to-head matchup. Until the 2010 ACC Tournament, North Carolina was the only program to have never played a Thursday game in the ACC Tournament since it expanded to a four-day format.

By the Numbers

• All Time Wins- 2090
• All Time Winning Percentage- .737
• NCAA Championships- 5
• NCAA Tournament Runner Up- 4
• All Americans- 49 players chosen 78 times
• ACC Regular Season Titles- 29
• ACC Tournament Titles- 17
• NCAA Championship Games- 9
• NCAA Final Fours- 18
• NCAA Tournament Appearances- 44
• NCAA Tournament Wins- 109
• #1 Seeds in the NCAA Tournament- 14
• Number of Weeks Ranked All Time in the Top-25 of the AP Poll- 808
• Number of Times Defeating the #1 Ranked Team in the Country- 12
• Pre-Tournament (Helm's) National Titles- 1

Honored and retired jerseys

The Jerseys in the rafters.

Main article: Honored North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players

Retired numbers

To have his number retired, a player must win one of the following six widely recognized player of the year awards:

• Associated Press Player of the Year
• Oscar Robertson Trophy, formerly known as the United States Basketball Writers Association National Player of the Year
• National Association of Basketball Coaches Player of the Year
• Sporting News Player of the Year
• John R. Wooden Award
• Naismith College Player of the Year

Eight players (including Jack Cobb, whose jersey did not have a number) have had their numbers retired. Tyler Hansbrough's number 50 is the eighth to be retired, after he won all six major player of the year awards during the 2007–08 season.

North Carolina Tar Heels retired numbers
No.	Player	Position	Tenure
10	Lennie Rosenbluth	SF	1954-57
12	Phil Ford	PG	1974-78
20	George Glamack	F	1938-41
23	Michael Jordan	SG	1981-84
33	Antawn Jamison	F	1995-98
50	Tyler Hansbrough	PF, C	2005-09
52	James Worthy	SF	1979-82
-	Jack Cobb		1923-26

Forty-seven former North Carolina men's basketball players are honored in the Smith Center with banners representing their numbers hung from the rafters. Of the 47 honored jerseys, eight are retired.

Honored jerseys

To have his jersey honored, a player must have met one of the following criteria:

• MVP of a National Championship-winning team
• Member of a gold medal-winning Olympic team
• First- or second-team All-America
• ACC Player of the Year
• NCAA Tournament MOP

Notable players and coaches

Main article: List of North Carolina Tar Heels men's head basketball coaches

Awards

National Coach of the Year:

• Frank McGuire – 1957
• Dean Smith – 1977, 1979, 1982, 1993
• Bill Guthridge – 1998
• Matt Doherty – 2001
• Roy Williams – 2006

ACC Coach of the Year:

• Frank McGuire – 1957
• Dean Smith – 1967, 1968, 1971, 1976,

1977, 1979, 1988, 1993

• Bill Guthridge – 1998
• Roy Williams – 2006, 2011

National Player of the Year:

• Jack Cobb – 1924
• George Glamack – 1940, 1941
• Lennie Rosenbluth – 1957
• Phil Ford – 1978
• James Worthy – 1982
• Michael Jordan – 1984
• Antawn Jamison – 1998
• Tyler Hansbrough – 2008

ACC Rookie of the Year:

• Sam Perkins – 1981
• Michael Jordan – 1982
• J.R. Reid – 1987
• Ed Cota – 1997
• Joseph Forte – 2000
• Marvin Williams – 2005
• Tyler Hansbrough – 2006
• Brandan Wright – 2007
• Harrison Barnes - 2011

ACC Player of the Year:

• Lennie Rosenbluth – 1957
• Pete Brennan – 1958
• Lee Shaffer – 1960
• Billy Cunningham – 1965
• Larry Miller – 1967, 1968
• Mitch Kupchak – 1976
• Phil Ford – 1978
• Michael Jordan – 1984
• Antawn Jamison – 1998
• Joseph Forte – 2001 (Shared with Duke's Shane Battier)
• Tyler Hansbrough – 2008
• Ty Lawson – 2009
• Tyler Zeller - 2012

ACC Tournament MVP's:

• Lennie Rosenbluth – 1957
• Larry Miller – 1967, 1968
• Charlie Scott – 1969
• Lee Dedmon (co-winner) – 1971
• Robert McAdoo – 1972
• Phil Ford – 1975
• John Kuester – 1977
• Dudley Bradley – 1979
• Sam Perkins – 1981
• James Worthy – 1982
• J.R. Reid – 1989
• Rick Fox – 1991
• Jerry Stackhouse – 1994
• Shammond Williams – 1997
• Antawn Jamison – 1998
• Brandan Wright – 2007
• Tyler Hansbrough – 2008

ACC Athletes of the Year:

• Lennie Rosenbluth – 1957
• Larry Miller – 1967
• Charlie Scott (co-winner) – 1970
• Phil Ford – 1977, 1978
• James Worthy – 1982
• Michael Jordan – 1984
• Antawn Jamison – 1998
• Sean May – 2005
• Tyler Hansbrough – 2008

Academic All-American of the Year:

• Tyler Zeller – 2012

All-Americans

Main article: List of North Carolina Tar Heels basketball All-Americans

Year	Player(s)
1923	Cartwright Carmichael
1924	Cartwright Carmichael, Jack Cobb
1925	Jack Cobb*
1926	Jack Cobb*
1940	George Glamack
1941	George Glamack
1945	Jim Jordan
1946	John Dillon
1956	Lennie Rosenbluth
1957	Lennie Rosenbluth, Tommy Kearns
1958	Tommy Kearns, Pete Brennan
1959	Lee Shaffer, York Larese, Doug Moe
1960	Lee Shaffer, York Larese
1961	York Larese, Doug Moe
1964	Billy Cunningham
1965	Billy Cunningham
1966	Bob Lewis
1967	Bob Lewis, Larry Miller
1968	Larry Miller
1969	Charlie Scott
1970	Charlie Scott
1972	Bill Chamberlain, Robert McAdoo, Dennis Wuycik
1974	Bobby Jones
1975	Mitch Kupchak
1976	Mitch Kupchak, Phil Ford
1977	Phil Ford, Tommy LaGarde
1978	Phil Ford, Mike O'Koren
1979	Mike O'Koren
1980	Mike O'Koren, Al Wood
1981	Al Wood, James Worthy
1982	James Worthy, Sam Perkins
1983	Sam Perkins, Michael Jordan
1984	Sam Perkins, Michael Jordan
1986	Brad Daugherty
1987	Kenny Smith
1988	J.R. Reid
1989	J.R. Reid
1991	Rick Fox
1993	Eric Montross
1994	Eric Montross
1995	Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace
1996	Antawn Jamison
1997	Antawn Jamison
1998	Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, Shammond Williams, Ed Cota*
1999	Ed Cota*, Ademola Okulaja*
2000	Ed Cota*
2001	Brendan Haywood, Joseph Forte
2004	Sean May, Rashad McCants
2005	Sean May, Rashad McCants, Raymond Felton
2006	Tyler Hansbrough
2007	Tyler Hansbrough
2008	Tyler Hansbrough, Wayne Ellington*, Ty Lawson*
2009	Tyler Hansbrough, Ty Lawson
2012	Harrison Barnes, Kendall Marshall, Tyler Zeller, John Henson*

(*) Denotes honorable mention

All-ACC Players

• The players are all first team All-ACC, unless otherwise noted

Year	Player(s)
1954	Jerry Vayda*
1955	Lennie Rosenbluth
1956	Lennie Rosenbluth
1957	Lennie Rosenbluth, Tommy Kearns, Pete Brennan*
1958	Tommy Kearns, Pete Brennan
1959	Doug Moe, Lee Shaffer*, York Larese
1960	Lee Shaffer, York Larese
1961	Doug Moe, York Larese
1962	Larry Brown*, Jim Hudock*
1963	Larry Brown, Billy Cunningham
1964	Billy Cunningham
1965	Billy Cunningham, Bob Lewis*
1966	Larry Miller*, Bob Lewis
1967	Larry Miller, Bob Lewis
1968	Larry Miller, Rusty Clark*, Charlie Scott
1969	Charlie Scott, Bill Bunting, Dick Grubar*
1970	Charlie Scott
1971	Dennis Wuycik, George Karl*
1972	Dennis Wuycik, George Karl*, Robert McAdoo, Bill Chamberlain*
1973	George Karl, Bobby Jones*
1974	Bobby Jones, Darrell Elston*
1975	Mitch Kupchak
1976	Mitch Kupchak, Walter Davis*, Phil Ford
1977	Walter Davis, Phil Ford, Tommy LaGarde*
1978	Phil Ford
1979	Mike O'Koren, Al Wood
1980	Mike O'Koren*, Al Wood*
1981	Mike O'Koren, Al Wood, James Worthy*
1982	James Worthy, Sam Perkins
1983	Sam Perkins, Michael Jordan
1984	Sam Perkins, Michael Jordan
1985	Brad Daugherty, Kenny Smith*
1986	Brad Daugherty, Kenny Smith*, Steve Hale*
1987	Kenny Smith, Joe Wolf, J.R. Reid*
1988	J.R. Reid, Jeff Lebo*
1989	Steve Bucknall*, Kevin Madden*
1990	Rick Fox**
1991	Rick Fox, Pete Chilcutt**
1992	Hubert Davis*, George Lynch**
1993	George Lynch, Eric Montross
1994	Eric Montross*, Derrick Phelps*
1995	Jeff McInnis**
1996	Dante Calabria**, Jeff McInnis*, Antawn Jamison
1997	Antawn Jamison, Serge Zwikker**, Vince Carter**, Shammond Williams**
1998	Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, Shammond Williams*, Ed Cota*
1999	Ed Cota*, Ademola Okulaja
2000	Ed Cota*, Brendan Haywood**, Joseph Forte*
2001	Brendan Haywood*, Joseph Forte, Jason Capel**
2002	Jason Capel**
2003	Raymond Felton**
2004	Raymond Felton**, Sean May*, Rashad McCants
2005	Raymond Felton, Sean May, Rashad McCants**, Jawad Williams**
2006	David Noel*, Reyshawn Terry**, Tyler Hansbrough
2007	Tyler Hansbrough, Brandan Wright*
2008	Tyler Hansbrough, Wayne Ellington*
2009	Tyler Hansbrough, Danny Green**, Ty Lawson
2011	Tyler Zeller*, John Henson*, Harrison Barnes*, Kendall Marshall**
2012	Tyler Zeller, John Henson, Harrison Barnes, Kendall Marshall*

• (*) Denotes 2nd Team All-ACC
• (**) Denotes 3rd Team All-ACC

All-Southern Conference Players

Year	Player(s)
1922	Cartwright Carmichael, Monk McDonald
1923	Cartwright Carmichael
1924	Cartwright Carmichael, Monk McDonald, Jack Cobb, Bill Dodderer
1925	Jack Cobb, Bill Dodderer
1926	Jack Cobb, Bill Dodderer, Artie Newcomb
1932	Tom Alexander, Virgil Weathers
1934	Jim McCachren
1935	Jim McCachren, Stewart Aitken, Ivan Glace
1936	Jim McCachren
1937	Earl Ruth
1940	George Glamack
1941	George Glamack, Bob Rose
1942	Bob Rose
1944	Boyce Box, Bernie Mock
1945	Manny Alvarez, Jim Jordan
1946	John Dillon
1947	Jim White, Bob Paxton - this link on Jim White's name is incorrect.
1948	Bob Paxton
1949	Coy Carson, Hugo Kappler

Tar Heels inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

• To date nine Tar Heels have been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame

Year	Player(s)	Inducted As a
1970	Bernard Carnevale	Coach
1977	Frank McGuire	Coach
1983	Dean Smith	Coach
1986	Billy Cunningham	Player
2000	Robert McAdoo	Player
2002	Larry Brown	Coach
2003	James Worthy	Player
2007	Roy Williams	Coach
2009	Michael Jordan	Player

Tar Heels in the NBA Draft

Main article: List of North Carolina Tar Heels in the NBA Draft

Tar Heels with NBA championship rings

Year	Name	Affiliation	Team
1967	Billy Cunningham	Player	Philadelphia 76ers
1976	Charles Scott	Player	Boston Celtics
1978	Mitch Kupchak	Player	Washington Bullets
1979	Tommy LaGarde	Player	Seattle SuperSonics
1982	Mitch Kupchak	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
1982	Robert McAdoo	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
1983	Billy Cunningham	Head Coach	Philadelphia 76ers
1983	Bobby Jones	Player	Philadelphia 76ers
1985	Mitch Kupchak	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
1985	Robert McAdoo	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
1985	James Worthy	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
1987	Mitch Kupchak	Asst. GM	Los Angeles Lakers
1987	James Worthy	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
1988	Mitch Kupchak	Asst. GM	Los Angeles Lakers
1988	James Worthy	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
1991	Michael Jordan	Player	Chicago Bulls
1991	Scott Williams	Player	Chicago Bulls
1992	Michael Jordan	Player	Chicago Bulls
1992	Scott Williams	Player	Chicago Bulls
1993	Michael Jordan	Player	Chicago Bulls
1993	Scott Williams	Player	Chicago Bulls
1994	Kenny Smith	Player	Houston Rockets
1995	Pete Chilcutt	Player	Houston Rockets
1995	Kenny Smith	Player	Houston Rockets
1996	Michael Jordan	Player	Chicago Bulls
1997	Michael Jordan	Player	Chicago Bulls
1998	Michael Jordan	Player	Chicago Bulls
2000	Rick Fox	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
2000	Mitch Kupchak	General Manager	Los Angeles Lakers
2001	Rick Fox	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
2001	Mitch Kupchak	General Manager	Los Angeles Lakers
2002	Rick Fox	Player	Los Angeles Lakers
2002	Mitch Kupchak	General Manager	Los Angeles Lakers
2004	Larry Brown	Head Coach	Detroit Pistons
2004	Dave Hanners	Asst. Coach	Detroit Pistons
2004	John Kuester	Asst. Coach	Detroit Pistons
2004	Pat Sullivan	Video Coordinator	Detroit Pistons
2004	Rasheed Wallace	Player	Detroit Pistons
2006	Robert McAdoo	Asst. Coach	Miami Heat
2009	Mitch Kupchak	General Manager	Los Angeles Lakers
2010	Mitch Kupchak	General Manager	Los Angeles Lakers
2011	Brendan Haywood	Player	Dallas Mavericks
2012	Robert McAdoo	Asst. Coach	Miami Heat

Tar Heel NBA All-Star Game appearances

Player	Year(s)
Vince Carter	8 (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Billy Cunningham	4 (1969, 1970, 1971, 1972)
Brad Daugherty	5 (1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993)
Walter Davis	6 (1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1987)
Antawn Jamison	2 (2005, 2008)
Bobby Jones	4 (1977, 1978, 1981, 1982)
Michael Jordan	14 (1985, 1986, 1987, 1988*, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996*, 1997, 1998*, 2002, 2003)
Robert McAdoo	5 (1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978)
Charles Scott	3 (1973, 1974, 1975)
Lee Shaffer	1 (1963)
Jerry Stackhouse	2 (2000, 2001)
Rasheed Wallace	4 (2000, 2001, 2006, 2008)
James Worthy	7 (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992)

• (*) Denotes All-Star Game MVP

Tar Heels in the Olympics

Year	Tar Heel	As a	Country
1964	Larry Brown	Player	United States
1968	Charles Scott	Player
1972	Bobby Jones	Player
1976	Walter Davis	Player
1976	Phil Ford	Player
1976	Bill Guthridge	Asst. Coach
1976	Mitch Kupchak	Player
1976	Tommy LaGarde	Player
1976	Dean Smith	Head Coach
1980	Al Wood	Player
1984	Michael Jordan	Player
1984	Sam Perkins	Player
1988	J.R. Reid	Player
1992	Michael Jordan	Player
1992	Henrik Rödl	Player	Germany
2000	Vince Carter	Player	United States
2000	Larry Brown	Asst. Coach
2004	Larry Brown	Head Coach
2004	Roy Williams	Asst. Coach

McDonald's All-Americans

The following 59 McDonald's All-Americans have played for North Carolina:

Year	Player	Hometown
1977	Pete Budko	Lutherville, MD
1977	Al Wood	Gray, GA
1979	James Worthy	Gastonia, NC
1979	Jim Braddock	Chattanooga, TN
1980	Matt Doherty	East Meadow, NJ
1980	Sam Perkins	Latham, NY
1981	Buzz Peterson	Asheville, NC
1981	Michael Jordan	Wilmington, NC
1982	Brad Daugherty	Black Mountain, NC
1982	Curtis Hunter	Durham, NC
1983	Kenny Smith	Queens, NY
1983	Dave Popson	Ashley, PA
1983	Joe Wolf	Kohler, WI
1985	Jeff Lebo	Carlisle, PA
1985	Kevin Madden	Staunton, VA
1986	Steve Bucknall	London, GB
1986	Pete Chilcutt	Eutaw, AL
1986	Scott Williams	Hacienda Heights, CA
1986	J.R. Reid	Virginia Beach, VA
1987	King Rice	Binghamton, NY
1989	Matt Wenstrom	Katy, TX
1989	George Lynch	Roanoke, VA
1990	Eric Montross	Indianapolis, IN
1990	Brian Reese	The Bronx, NY
1990	Derrick Phelps	Pleasantville, NY
1991	Donald Williams	Garner, NC
1992	Serge Zwikker	Maassluis, NL
1993	Jerry Stackhouse	Kinston, NC
1993	Rasheed Wallace	Philadelphia, PA
1993	Jeff McInnis	Charlotte, NC
1995	Antawn Jamison	Charlotte, NC
1995	Vince Carter	Daytona Beach, FL
1996	Ed Cota	Brooklyn, NY
1996	Vasco Evtimov	Sofia, BG
1997	Brendan Haywood	Greensboro, NC
1998	Ronald Curry	Hampton, VA
1998	Jason Capel	Chesapeake, VA
1998	Kris Lang	Gastonia, NC
1999	Joseph Forte	Greenbelt, MD
2000	Neil Fingleton	Durham, UK
2001	Jawad Williams	Cleveland, OH
2002	Rashad McCants	Asheville, NC
2002	Sean May	Bloomington, IN
2002	Raymond Felton	Latta, SC
2004	Marvin Williams	Bremerton, WA
2005	Tyler Hansbrough	Poplar Bluff, MO
2005	Danny Green	North Babylon, NY
2005	Bobby Frasor	Blue Island, IL
2006	Brandan Wright	Brentwood, TN
2006	Ty Lawson	Clinton, MD
2006	Wayne Ellington	Wynnewood, PA
2008	Larry Drew	Woodland Hills, CA
2008	Ed Davis	Richmond, VA
2008	Tyler Zeller	Washington, IN
2009	David Wear	Santa Ana, CA
2009	Travis Wear	Santa Ana, CA
2009	Dexter Strickland	Elizabeth, NJ
2009	John Henson	Tampa, FL
2010	Kendall Marshall	Dumfries, VA
2010	Reggie Bullock	Kinston, NC
2010	Harrison Barnes	Ames, IA
2011	James Michael McAdoo	Norfolk, VA
2011	P. J. Hairston	Greensboro, NC
2012	Marcus Paige	Marion, Iowa
2013	Kennedy Meeks	Charlotte, NC
2013	Isaiah Hicks	Oxford, NC

Mr. Basketball

The following players won their state's Mr. Basketball award in high school.

Year	Player	State	Notes
1973	Tom LaGarde	Michigan
1976	Dave Colescott	Indiana
1983	Joe Wolf	Wisconsin
1986	Scott Williams	California
1987	Henrik Rodl	North Carolina
1987	King Rice	New York
1990	Clifford Rozier	Florida	Transferred to Louisville
1991	Donald Williams	North Carolina
1995	Vince Carter	Florida
1995	Antawn Jamison	North Carolina
1998	Kris Lang	North Carolina
2000	Adam Boone	Minnesota	Transferred to Minnesota
2002	Raymond Felton	South Carolina
2002	Sean May	Indiana
2004	Brandan Wright	Tennessee	Div. II A
2005	Brandan Wright	Tennessee	Div. II A
2005	Tyler Hansbrough	Missouri
2006	Brandan Wright	Tennessee	Div. II A
2006	Will Graves	North Carolina
2008	Leslie McDonald	Tennessee	Div. II AA
2008	Tyler Zeller	Indiana
2009	Leslie McDonald	Tennessee	Div. II AA
2010	Reggie Bullock	North Carolina
2010	Harrison Barnes	Iowa
2012	Marcus Paige	Iowa
2012	Brice Johnson	South Carolina
2013	Isaiah Hicks	North Carolina

Current players in the NBA

• Harrison Barnes, Golden State Warriors
• Vince Carter, Dallas Mavericks
• Ed Davis, Memphis Grizzlies
• Wayne Ellington, Cleveland Cavaliers
• Raymond Felton, New York Knicks
• Danny Green, San Antonio Spurs
• Tyler Hansbrough, Indiana Pacers
• Brendan Haywood, Charlotte Bobcats
• John Henson, Milwaukee Bucks
• Antawn Jamison, Los Angeles Lakers
• Ty Lawson, Denver Nuggets
• Kendall Marshall, Phoenix Suns
• Marvin Williams, Utah Jazz
• Brandan Wright, Dallas Mavericks
• Jerry Stackhouse, Brooklyn Nets
• Tyler Zeller, Cleveland Cavaliers

NBA head coaches and executives

• Larry Brown, former head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats
• Michael Jordan, owner and president of basketball operations of the Charlotte Bobcats
• George Karl, former head coach of the Denver Nuggets
• John Kuester, former head coach of the Detroit Pistons
• Mitch Kupchak, general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers
• Donnie Walsh, president of the Indiana Pacers

Other fields

• James Delany, commissioner of the Big Ten Conference (1967–1970)
• Julius Peppers, NFL defensive end for the Chicago Bears (1999–2001)
• Richard Vinroot, former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina (1961–1963)

NBA Assistant Coaches:

• Pat Sullivan – Detroit Pistons
• Dave Hanners—Charlotte Bobcats
• Phil Ford—Charlotte Bobcats
• Mike O'Koren—New Jersey Nets
• Bob McAdoo—Miami Heat
• Joe Wolf—Milwaukee Bucks

Rivalries

Duke

Main article: Carolina–Duke rivalry

Carolina currently leads the series 132-103. They played their first game in 1920.

NC State

Main article: Carolina–State Game

Carolina currently leads the series 147-76. They first met in 1913.

Wake Forest

Main article: Wake-Carolina rivalry

Carolina currently leads the series 154-65. They first met in 1911.

Carolina Basketball Museum

See also: List of museums in North Carolina

The Carolina Basketball Museum is located in the Ernie Williamson Athletics Center and contains 8,000 square feet. It was built to replace the old memorabilia room in the Dean Smith Center. Designed by Gallagher & Associates, the cost of construction was $3.4 million. The museum opened in January 2008.

Milestone wins

Type of Win	Score	Opponent & Location
1st Win	42–21	Virginia Christian, Jan. 27, 1911
100th Win	29–23	at Duke, Mar. 7, 1922
200th Win	45–14	Salisbury YMCA, Dec. 10, 1927
300th Win	24–23	at Virginia, Jan. 29, 1934
400th Win	42–38	at Ashebero McCrary Eagles, Dec. 30, 1939
500th Win	55–28	NC State in Southern Conf. Tournament, Feb. 22, 1945
600th Win	64–42	South Carolina, Jan. 18, 1950
700th Win	63–55	Wake Forest in Dixie Classic, Dec. 29, 1956
800th Win	100–71	Virginia at Greensboro, NC, Jan. 13, 1962
900th Win	82–54	Georgia Tech at Charlotte, NC, Jan. 27, 1968
1000th Win	92–72	Maryland, Jan. 29, 1972
1100th Win	79–74	Georgia Tech at Charlotte, NC, Feb. 6, 1976
1200th Win	73–70 (OT)	Rutgers at Madison Square Garden, Feb. 14, 1980
1300th Win	64–51	St. John's at Madison Square Garden, Dec. 29, 1983
1400th Win	96–80	Clemson, Feb. 21, 1987
1500th Win	92–70	NC State, Feb. 7, 1991
1600th Win	90–67	Pittsburgh, Nov. 29, 1994
1700th Win	60–45	Virginia, Feb. 11, 1998
1800th Win	68–65	Connecticut, Jan. 18, 2003
1900th Win	77–61	Georgia Tech, Jan. 20, 2007
2000th Win	69–62	Miami, Mar. 2, 2010
1st ACC Win	82–56	South Carolina, Dec. 12, 1953
1st ACC Tournament Win	81–77	Virginia at Raleigh, NC, Mar. 1, 1956
1st Win in the ACC Final	95–75	South Carolina at Raleigh, NC, Mar. 9, 1957
1st NCAA Tournament Win	57–49	NYU at Madison Square Garden, Mar. 21, 1946
1st NCAA Championship	54–53 (3 OT)	Kansas at Kansas City, MO, Mar. 23, 1957
1st Win under Dean Smith	80–46	Virginia, Dec. 2, 1961
1st Final Four under Dean Smith	96–80	Boston College at College Park, MD, Mar. 18, 1967
Dean Smith's 1st NCAA Title	63–62	Georgetown at New Orleans, LA, Mar. 29, 1982
Last Win in Carmichael Auditorium	80–72	William & Mary, Mar. 16, 2010
1st Win in Smith Center	95–92	Duke, Jan. 18, 1986
Dean Smith's 2nd NCAA Title	77–71	Michigan at New Orleans, LA, Apr. 5, 1993
877th Win under Dean Smith	73–56	Colorado at Winston-Salem, NC, Mar. 15, 1997
1st Win under Bill Guthridge	84–56	Middle Tennessee State, Nov. 14, 1997
500th ACC Win	61–60	Florida State, Feb. 8, 2003
1st Win under Roy Williams	90–64	Old Dominion, Nov. 22, 2003
1st Final Four under Roy Williams	87–71	Michigan State at St. Louis, MO, Apr. 2, 2005
Roy Williams' 1st NCAA Title	75–70	Illinois at St. Louis, MO, Apr. 4, 2005
17th ACC Tournament Title	86–81	Clemson at Charlotte, NC, Mar. 16, 2008
18th Final Four	72–60	Oklahoma at Memphis, TN, Mar. 29, 2009
Roy Williams' 2nd NCAA Title	89–72	Michigan State at Detroit, MI, Apr. 6, 2009
600th ACC Win	68-53	Wake Forest at Winston-Salem, NC January 31, 2012

UNC junior varsity basketball team

Main article: North Carolina Tar Heels junior varsity basketball

The UNC junior varsity basketball team was originally used at North Carolina as freshmen teams because freshmen were not allowed to play on the varsity team until the NCAA granted freshmen eligibility in the 1970s.

After most schools decided to disband their J.V. squads, North Carolina's athletic department opted to keep the team so that non-scholarship students were given the chance to play basketball for UNC. North Carolina also uses their J.V. team as a way for varsity assistant coaches to gain experience as head coaches. Roy Williams was a J.V. coach for eight years before he was hired at Kansas.

Students at UNC are only allowed to play on the team for two years, and then they are given a chance to try out for the varsity. The J.V. team also serves as a way for coaches to evaluate players for two years on the J.V. so they will better know what to expect when they try out for varsity later in their careers.

UNC's J.V. team plays a combination of teams from Division II and III schools, some community colleges, and a few prep schools from around the North Carolina area.

Seasons

Main article: List of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball seasons

Records

Main article: North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball records

• NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Consecutive Appearances

Home venues

Bynum Gymnasium, the first home of the team

• Bynum Gymnasium (1910–1924)
• Tin Can (1924–1938)
• Woollen Gymnasium (1938–1964)
• Carmichael Auditorium (1965–1986)
• Dean Smith Center (1986–present)

External links

• University of North Carolina Tar Heels Official Athletic Site