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University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heel Basketball Glossary
October 6, 2003 | Men's Basketball
Oct. 6, 2003
ACC Championships
Carolina has won or shared 23 regular-season Atlantic Coast Conference championships and 15 ACC Tournament titles. Both figures are more than any other school in the league. Duke is second with 16 regular-season and 14 tournament championships. The Tar Heels last won the regular-season crown in 2001 under head coach Matt Doherty. Carolina's most recent of the 15 tournament titles came in 1998, under head coach Bill Guthridge.
ACC 50
The 2003-04 season is the 50th in Atlantic Coast Conference history. Last year, the ACC sponsored an official 50th anniversary team, selected by a panel of more than 100 media and school administrators.
The Tar Heels placed 12 on the men's basketball team, more than any other school. Carolina's ACC 50 honorees include: Lennie Rosenbluth, Billy Cunningham, Larry Miller, Charles Scott, Bobby Jones, Walter Davis, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Michael Jordan, Brad Daugherty and Antawn Jamison.
Overall, UNC had 276 selections to various ACC 50 teams, the highest figure among all ACC institutions.
ACC Players of the Year
Ten different Tar Heels have been named Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, including Larry Miller, who won the award in 1967 and 1968. Joseph Forte was named co-winner in 2001 along with Duke's Shane Battier. That was the only time in the 49-year history of the ACC that two players shared top billing. The teams tied for the regular-season championship and each team won on the other's home court.
Other Tar Heels to be named ACC Player of the Year are: Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Pete Brennan (1958), Lee Shaffer (1960), Billy Cunningham (1965), Mitch Kupchak (1976), Phil Ford (1978), Michael Jordan (1984) and Antawn Jamison (1998).
ACC Tournament
The crown jewel of college basketball outside the NCAA Final Four is the ACC Tournament. The four-day event has traditionally been one of the toughest tickets in sports. Most of the nine schools do not have public sale of tickets. This year's tournament is March 11-14 at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C.
The Tar Heels have a 31-11 tournament record in Greensboro, where UNC has won seven ACC championships. Carolina has won the event a record 15 times. Frank McGuire led UNC to the 1957 title, Dean Smith's teams won in 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994 and 1997, and Bill Guthridge led UNC to the winner's circle in 1998.
Smith won 13 ACC Tournament titles. That is five more than Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, who is second with eight titles.
UNC has won 75 ACC Tournament games, more than any other school in the league. Not only has UNC won a record 15 titles, the Tar Heels have played in the championship game 27 times in 49 years.
All-Americas
Forty-three Tar Heels have earned All-America honors, including 31 first-team honorees. Carolina's first All-America was Cartwright Carmichael, who was named in 1923 and 1924. The most recent selection was Joseph Forte, who earned consensus first-team accolades in 2001.
Phil Ford (1976-78), Mike O'Koren (1978-80) and Sam Perkins (1982-84) earned first-team All-America honors on three occasions. Ford, O'Koren and Perkins are joined by NC State's David Thompson and Virginia's Ralph Sampson as the only three-time, first-team All-Americas in ACC history.
Carolina is second in NCAA history with 13 consensus first-team All-Americas. Those 13 include: George Glamack (1940 and 1941), Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Larry Miller (1968), Robert McAdoo (1972), Phil Ford (1977 and 1978), James Worthy (1982), Michael Jordan (1983 and 1984), Sam Perkins (1983 and 1984), Kenny Smith (1987), J.R. Reid (1988), Jerry Stackhouse (1995), Antawn Jamison (1998) and Joseph Forte (2001).
All-ACC
Carolina has placed 61 players on the All-ACC first team. That figure is the highest in ACC history. Duke is second with 51 first-team selections.
Seven Tar Heels have earned first-team All-ACC honors three times, including Lennie Rosenbluth (1956-58), York Larese (1959-61), Billy Cunningham (1963-65), Charles Scott (1968-70), Phil Ford (1976-78), Sam Perkins (1982-84) and Antawn Jamison (1996-98).
Jamison is the only Tar Heel, and one of only five ACC players, to be named to the first team as a freshman. The others are Skip Wise (Clemson, 1975), Kenny Anderson (Georgia Tech, 1990), Joe Smith (Maryland, 1994) and Stephon Marbury (Georgia Tech, 1996).
Last season marked the first time in which UNC did not have a first- or second-team selection in back-to-back seasons since 1989-90.
All-Stars
A dozen former Carolina players have played in the NBA All-Star Game. Michael Jordan made 14 appearances. James Worthy (seven), Walter Davis (six), Bob McAdoo (five), Brad Daugherty (five), Billy Cunningham (four), Bobby Jones (four), Charles Scott (three), Vince Carter (three), Jerry Stackhouse (two), Rasheed Wallace (two) and Lee Shaffer (one) also played in the NBA's showcase game.
Alma Mater
"Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices" is the oldest song of the University. It is based on the song "Amici" and was adapted in 1897. The chorus, "I'm a Tar Heel Bred," was added in the 1930s.
Attendance
North Carolina was fourth in the nation in average attendance with better than 18,600 fans per game. That figure was No. 1 in the ACC and No. 2 nationally among on-campus arenas (behind only the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y.).
In the 18 seasons the Tar Heels have played at the Smith Center, 4,726,960 fans have come through the turnstiles. That is an average of 20,029 fans at the 236 UNC home games.
The 5 millionth fan is expected to pass through the gates sometime in the 2003-04 season.
Last year, Carolina averaged 18,688 fans for the full 18-game schedule and 20,938 for ACC games.
The most amazing attendance figure of the season was the 20,235 for the Wyoming game in the second round of the NIT. That was one of the largest crowds in the history of the NIT. Carolina averaged a remarkable 15,207 for its three postseason NIT games.
Baseline Seats
Three years ago the Rams Club spent $200,000 to make room for 400 student admissions to a standing-room only section along the baseline in sections 116, 117 and 118. Those sections are at the end of the court at which the Tar Heels shoot in the second half. The first six rows of the retractable seats in those sections push back and a five-tiered riser is installed each game. The section increased the building's overall capacity to 21,750 for basketball.
Big Game James
efore James Worthy teamed with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson to win three NBA championships, he was the Most Outstanding Player of the 1982 NCAA Final Four. Everyone remembers Michael Jordan's game-winning shot, but Worthy scored 28 points in the title game win over Georgetown. Worthy was the Helms Foundation's National Player of the Year in 1982.
Worthy was nicknamed "Big Game" James for his ability to play his best basketball in the most important games, especially in the NBA Playoffs. He had 36 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists in Game 7 of the 1988 NBA Finals and was named Finals MVP.
The Gastonia, N.C., native was named one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players and was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on September 5, 2003. His college coach, Dean Smith, presented James into the Hall of Fame.
Blind Bomber
George Glamack, an All-America in 1940 and 1941, was nicknamed the Blind Bomber because of his poor eyesight and remarkably accurate hook shot. Glamack actually shot the ball based on the painted lines on the floor. He scored 45 points against Clemson in 1941, still the fourth-highest total in Carolina history.
Broadcasters
Carolina's men's basketball players deal with the media so often, it's no wonder they become comfortable in front of the camera and on the airwaves. Brad Daugherty, Kenny Smith, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Walter Davis, Mike O'Koren, Bones McKinney, Billy Cunningham and Eddie Fogler are among the Tar Heels who followed long professional basketball careers with broadcasting stints.
Daugherty has established himself as one of the top college analysts for ESPN. Smith teams with Charles Barkley as co-hosts of a wildly popular NBA show on Turner Sports. Worthy was color analyst alongside Dick Enberg for CBS when the Tar Heels won the 2000 NCAA South Regional.
Bynum Gymnasium
The first gymnasium in which Carolina played intercollegiate basketball was Bynum Gym, located near what is now Peabody Hall. UNC played in Bynum from 1911 to 1924. The gym was named after William P. Bynum Jr., a former UNC student who died of typhoid after his sophomore year. His grandfather, state Supreme Court justice William P. Bynum of Charlotte, had donated $25,000 for construction of the facility. An interesting feature of the gym was the second floor running track that hung over the playing surface.
ynum Hall now houses several University offices.
Carmichael Auditorium
The Tar Heels posted a 169-20 record in Carmichael Auditorium, one of the most famous arenas in college basketball history. UNC played its first game in Carmichael against William and Mary on December 4, 1965, and its last game there on January 4, 1986, versus NC State.
The arena was named after William D. Carmichael Jr., Carolina's comptroller and vice-president of the UNC system. When first built, it held 8,800 individual chairback seats. Today, it has a seating capacity of 10,000 and is home to UNC's volleyball, women's basketball, wrestling and gymnastics programs.
Carolina Blue
Subject of much debate, the officially licensed color that is known as Carolina Blue is PMS 278. Sometimes referred to as Columbia Blue or sky blue, there is no doubt that the light blue hue is one of the most popular and instantly recognized colors in all of sports.
Carolina-Duke Rivalry
Voted the best college basketball rivalry in the 20th century by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the Tar Heels lead the series, 123-92. The teams have combined for seven national championships, 29 of the 49 ACC Tournament titles, 28 Final Fours and 156 NCAA Tournament victories. Carolina-Duke games hold the top two and three of the top five rated college basketball telecasts in ESPN2 history.
At least one of the two schools has been ranked in the Associated Press national poll in each of the last 116 meetings. The last time Carolina and Duke met when neither team were ranked by the Associated Press was on Feb. 27, 1960.
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Case Award
Carolina players have won the ACC Tournament Most Valuable Player Award, once known as the Everett Case Award, an unprecedented 16 times. UNC's MVPs include: Lennie Rosenbluth in 1957, Larry Miller in 1967 and 1968, Charles Scott in 1969, Lee Dedmon in 1971, Robert McAdoo in 1972, Phil Ford in 1975, John Kuester in 1977, Dudley Bradley in 1979, Sam Perkins in 1981, James Worthy in 1982, J.R. Reid in 1989, Rick Fox in 1991, Jerry Stackhouse in 1994, Shammond Williams in 1997 and Antawn Jamison in 1998. Dedmon shared the award with South Carolina's John Roche.
Carolina's Ford, Perkins and Stackhouse and Duke's Jason Williams and J.J. Redick are the only freshmen in league history to win MVP honors. Miller and NC State's Tommy Burleson are the only players to earn the award in consecutive seasons.
Chapel Hill
Sports Illustrated named Chapel Hill America's finest college town, saying it is "the purest example we could find of a college town defined by a university - and a good university."
Coach of the Year
Roy Williams has won national coach of the year honors in four different seasons. Each of UNC's previous four coaches also won national coaching honors while directing the Tar Heels. Frank McGuire won in 1957, Dean Smith won in 1977, 1979, 1982 and 1993, Bill Guthridge was a recipient in 1998, and Matt Doherty won in 2001. McGuire, Smith and Guthridge also earned ACC Coach of the Year honors. Smith was the ACC recipient a record eight times.
Matt Doherty
The East Meadow, N.Y., native was only the second former Tar Heel to be the head coach at the University of North Carolina. He led Carolina to a 53-43 record from 2001-03.
When Carolina went 13-3 in the league in 2000-01, he became the only coach in ACC history to win the regular-season championship in his first year.
Doherty and Bobby Cremins are also the only men in league history to play for and coach the No. 1 ranked team in the nation.
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The Donald
No, not Trump, Williams. As in Donald Williams, the smooth-shooting, soft-spoken three-point artist who shot the Tar Heels to the 1993 NCAA championship. The Garner, N.C., native scored 25 points against Kansas in the national semifinal and another 25 against Michigan in the championship game and was named the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player.
Williams hit 10 of 14 from three-point range in the Final Four, the best three-point accuracy in Final Four history.
Double-Doubles
illy Cunningham holds the Carolina record for double-doubles with 60 career and 22 in a single-season (22 out of 24 games in 1963-64).
Antawn Jamison finished his brilliant career with double-doubles in each of his last six games, a span that included the ACC Tournament championship game win vs. Duke and all five games in the 1998 NCAA Tournament.
George Lynch had double-doubles in the last four wins in the 1993 NCAA Tournament. He had 23 points and 10 rebounds against Arkansas in the Sweet 16, 21 and 14 vs. Cincinnati in the Final 8, 14 and 10 against Kansas in the Final 4 and 12 and 10 vs. Michigan in the national championship game.
Five different current Tar Heels have double-doubles, led by sophomore point guard Raymond Felton, who had four last year, all in the final six games. Jawad Williams has three career double-doubles, Sean May and Rashad McCants had two apiece last year, and David Noel had one.
Draft Day
Carolina has had 85 players selected in the NBA Draft, including 31 players taken in the first round. The Tar Heels have had 12 players drafted in the first round in the last 15 years. Brendan Haywood and Joseph Forte were selected in the first round in 2000-01. That was the seventh time UNC had two different players selected in the first round in the same year.
James Worthy and Brad Daugherty were selected No. 1 in the overall draft. Worthy was selected in 1982 by the Lakers; Daugherty was taken No. 1 by Cleveland in 1986.
Michael Jordan was the third player selected in the 1984 Draft behind Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston) and Sam Bowie (Portland).
Woody Durham
Since 1971, Woody Durham has been the Voice of the Tar Heels, handling play-by-play radio duties for Carolina basketball and football. Durham has been named the North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year 11 times. In 2002 he received the Skeeter Francis Award for Distinguished Service by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
The 1963 UNC graduate grew up in Albemarle, N.C. His son, Wes, is the play-by-play voice of Georgia Tech football and basketball.
Durham is partnered with Mick Mixon, who is in his 15th year with the Tar Heel Sports Network. Mixon was named North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year in 1999.
1,800 Wins
The Tar Heels have won 1,808 basketball games, the second-most in NCAA history. Carolina, Kentucky (1,849) and Kansas (1,801) are the only programs in the country with at least 1,800 wins.
Early Entries
When Joseph Forte entered the NBA Draft in 2001 after his sophomore season, he became the 10th Tar Heel to leave school early for the NBA. Robert McAdoo was the first to do so, after his junior year in 1972. He was the second player selected in the draft and was an NBA Most Valuable Player with the Buffalo Braves.
The others include juniors James Worthy, Michael Jordan, J.R. Reid, Jeff McInnis, Vince Carter and Antawn Jamison and sophomores Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace.
Elite Eight
Carolina has advanced to the NCAA regional final on 20 occasions. The Tar Heels are 15-5 in those games, advancing to the Final Four a record 15 times. Carolina has won each of its last six games in the Elite Eight, advancing to the Final Four in 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000. The last time UNC made it to the brink of the Final Four but lost was in 1988.
Only one other school (Kentucky, 30) has advanced to the Final 8 more often than Carolina.
Field Goal Percentage
Carolina's unselfish play and willingness to get the best shot possible is exemplified by the fact that the Tar Heels have led the ACC in individual field goal percentage 15 times, more than any other school in the league (Duke is second with 13). In fact, Carolina players have five of the 10 best career field goal percentages in ACC history.
Brendan Haywood holds the ACC career record at 63.7 percent. Rasheed Wallace (2nd), Brad Daugherty (4th), Bobby Jones (8th) and J.R. Reid (10th) are also among the top 10. Ten of the 25 all-time best field goal shooters in ACC history are Tar Heels.
Carolina has led the ACC in team field goal percentage 24 times (in 49 years) and led the nation in 1966, 1972, 1973 and 1998.
50-50
The last two NBA players to score 50 points in consecutive games are former Tar Heels Michael Jordan and Antawn Jamison. Jordan did it in 1986-87 and Jamison accomplished the feat in 2000-01.
Final Four
Carolina has played in 15 Final Fours, more than any other school in the nation. The Tar Heels played in the Final Four in 1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2000. The Tar Heels won the NCAA title in 1957, 1982 and 1993.
Rusty Clark (1967-69), Bill Bunting (1967-69) and Ed Cota (1997-98, 2000) are the only Tar Heels to start in three different Final Fours. Carolina holds the NCAA record for most players who have played in a Final Four with 121. UNC has played in the Final Four in 10 different cities and in seven different decades.
First-Game Starters
Last year, Raymond Felton, Rashad McCants and Sean May started the season opener against Penn State. They were the 18th, 19th and 20th Tar Heels to start in their first games as a freshman since first-year players became eligible to play in 1972-73.
The other UNC players to start their first game as freshmen are Phil Ford, Mike O'Koren, James Worthy, Michael Jordan, Kenny Smith, J.R. Reid, Pete Chilcutt, Rick Fox, Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, Ed Cota, Brendan Haywood, Jason Capel, Kris Lang, Joseph Forte, Adam Boone and Jawad Williams.
Freshmen Starters
When Raymond Felton, Rashad McCants and Sean May started the 2002-03 season opener against Penn State, it marked the first time in UNC history the Tar Heels started three freshmen in a game.
Later in the season, Carolina actually started four freshmen against Iona - Felton, McCants, May and David Noel.
500 ACC Wins
The Tar Heels have won 503 regular-season ACC games, more than any other school in league history. Duke is second with 450 wins. No other ACC school is even close to 400 ACC wins.
Phil Ford
Arguably the greatest point guard in college basketball history, the Rocky Mount, N.C., native is Carolina's all-time leading scorer with 2,290 points.
Ford perfected the Four Corners, was MVP of the ACC Tournament as a freshman in leading UNC past David Thompson and NC State, and won the Wooden Award as the National Player of the Year in 1978. Ford was an NBA Rookie of the Year and was an assistant coach with the Tar Heels for 12 years. Ford led the USA to the gold medal in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, dishing out 12 assists in the gold medal game.
Ford is currently a Vice President in the Rams Club, the non-profit foundation that raises scholarship funding for UNC's student-athletes.
Four Corners
One of the most famous and feared offensive sets in college basketball history was the Four Corners, a system Dean Smith first used in 1965-66 with Larry Miller and Bob Lewis handling the ball and later perfected by point guard Phil Ford. Smith was not the first coach to spread the floor, but his unique signature to the offense was to put the team's best ballhandler in the middle of the floor with four teammates around him in the corners of the court.
Franklin Street
The most famous street in Chapel Hill, one of the great college towns in America, is Franklin Street. Known for its restaurants, shops and nightlife, Franklin Street borders the northern edge of the UNC campus.
Freshmen
Point guard Raymond Felton and swing man Rashad McCants were both voted to the ACC All-Freshman Team a year ago.
They were the eighth and ninth Tar Heels to be named to the team since its inception in 1992-93. Felton and McCants join Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace, Antawn Jamison, Ed Cota, Kris Lang, Joseph Forte and Jawad Williams as All-ACC Freshman selections.
Five Carolina players have been named ACC Rookie of the Year, including Sam Perkins (1981), Michael Jordan (1982), J.R. Reid (1987), Cota (1997) and Forte (2000).
UNC is the only school to have three different freshmen win ACC Tournament MVP honors. Phil Ford (1975), Perkins and Stackhouse accomplished the feat.
Bill Guthridge
The Parsons, Kan., native was the consensus National Coach of the Year and ACC Coach of the Year in 1998 when he led the Tar Heels to a 34-4 record, an ACC championship and Final Four appearance.
Guthridge spent 30 years as an assistant to Dean Smith and was UNC's head coach from 1998-2000. In those three years, UNC went 80-28 and played in the 1998 and 2000 Final Fours. He joined Fred Taylor of Ohio State as the only men to coach in Final Fours in two of his first three seasons as a head coach.
Guthridge set NCAA records for wins as a first year (34) and second year coach (58) and tied the NCAA record for wins after three years (80).
Hall of Famers
Former NCAA Final Four MVP and NBA Finals Most Valuable Player James Worthy was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., on September 5, 2003. Worthy's induction marked the second straight year in which a Tar Heel was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Larry Brown was inducted in 2002, joining coaches Ben Carnevale, Frank McGuire and Dean Smith and players Billy Cunningham and Bob McAdoo.
obby Jones and Walter Davis were finalists on the ballot in last year.
Honored Jerseys
Rising high above the Smith Center floor are the names and uniform numbers of 40 Tar Heel players who performed with great distinction. Seven of the jersey numbers are retired and 33 of them are honored and may be worn by future Tar Heels. A player qualifies to have his number honored if he meets any of the following criteria: ACC Player of the Year; selected by the coaches as MVP of a NCAA championship team; member of a gold medal Olympic team; or a first- or second-team All-America selection.
Retired Jerseys
Seven Tar Heels have had their jerseys retired by the University, including Jack Cobb (no number), Lennie Rosenbluth (#10), Phil Ford (#12), George Glamack (#20), Michael Jordan (#23), Antawn Jamison (#33) and James Worthy (#52).
Today, a player must be the consensus National Player of the Year to have his jersey retired. That is policy established by the University's Athletics Council.
Michael Jordan
ESPN's SportsCentury named him the Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century. He is an NCAA champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, six-time NBA Finals MVP, five-time NBA Most Valuable Player, 10-time NBA scoring champion and first-team All-NBA selection and six-time NBA champion.
He hit the game-winning shot in the 1982 NCAA championship game against Georgetown, was the consensus National Player of the Year in 1984 and averaged 17.7 points and 5.0 rebounds per game as a Tar Heel (he played before the shot clock and with the three-point shot in just one of his three collegiate seasons). Jordan led the ACC in scoring as a junior and averaged 20.0 points a game as a sophomore.
Kangaroo Kid
illy Cunningham is Carolina's all-time leading rebounder at 15.4 per game and has the second-highest scoring average at 24.8 points per game. The Brooklyn, N.Y., native was nicknamed "The Kangaroo Kid" for his leaping ability. He had 10 or more rebounds 61 times in 69 games.
Cunningham went on to win an NBA championship as a player (1967) and head coach with the Philadelphia 76ers (1983). He was named one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players and is enshrined in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Kansas
Carolina basketball has a number of ties to the state of Kansas and the Kansas Jayhawk basketball program. Dean Smith was born in Emporia, grew up in Topeka and was a member of the KU basketball team that won the 1952 NCAA championship. Bill Guthridge is a native of Parsons and played basketball and coached at Kansas State. Carolina beat Kansas, led by Wilt Chamberlain, in triple overtime to win the 1957 NCAA title. Dick Harp, who coached that KU team in 1957, was an assistant coach under Smith at UNC in the late 1980s. Larry Brown played and coached at UNC and was head coach at Kansas in 1988 when the Jayhawks won the NCAA title. Former Tar Heel player and assistant coach Eddie Fogler was head coach at Wichita State. Former UNC head coach Matt Doherty spent seven years as assistant to Roy Williams at KU from 1992-99. Williams was an assistant to Smith at Carolina from 1978-79 to 1987-88 and head coach of the Jayhawks from 1988-89 to last season. His current staff of Steve Robinson, Joe Holladay, Jerod Haase and C.B. McGrath were on Williams' staff in Lawrence.
Tommy Kearns
Kearns earned national notoriety when at just under six feet tall he jumped center against Kansas' Wilt Chamberlain to tip off the 1957 national championship game. Kearns was a second-team All-America guard that year, leading UNC to a 32-0 record. In 2000, he played a high school basketball coach in the movie "Finding Forrester."
L&M Boys
In the mid-1960s, Bob Lewis and Larry Miller provided the spark that established Dean Smith as one of the game's great coaches and Carolina basketball as one of the sport's top programs. Lewis averaged 27.4 points as a junior in 1966 and 22.1 in his career. The Washington, D.C., native holds UNC's single-game record with 49 points.
According to Smith, Miller was the first player that signed with Carolina who was recruited heavily by Vic Bubas at Duke. Miller went on to win ACC Player-of-the-Year honors in 1967 and 1968. Lewis and Miller were dubbed "The L&M Boys" and featured in a Sports Illustrated story by Frank Deford.
Frank McGuire
McGuire led the Tar Heels to a 32-0 season and national championship in 1956-57, one of the defining moments in establishing ACC Basketball as the best basketball conference in America. McGuire became the UNC head coach in 1952-53 and posted a nine-year record of 164-58. He began the pipeline of New York City talent, bringing to Chapel Hill players such as Lennie Rosenbluth, Tommy Kearns, Pete Brennan, Joe Quigg, Bob Cunningham (the five starters in 1957), York Larese, Doug Moe, Donnie Walsh, Larry Brown and Billy Cunningham.
McGuire left UNC for the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers after the 1960-61 season. Three years earlier, however, he hired Dean Smith as an assistant coach. McGuire later won an ACC title at South Carolina in 1971.
NACDA Cup
Carolina finished eighth in the nation in the 2002-03 Division I NACDA Cup standings (formerly known as the Sears Cup). Stanford won the Cup for the ninth consecutive year. UNC is the only school other than Stanford to win the Division I title since the award was created in 1993-94. Carolina finished first in the award's inaugural season.
Points are awarded by virtue of a school's NCAA postseason finish in up to 10 men's and 10 women's sports (based upon the number of teams in each championship format).
Carolina's eighth-place finish marked the eighth time in 10 years the Tar Heels have placed in the Top 10 in the country. It was also the ninth time in 10 years UNC was the highest-finishing school in the ACC.
National Players of the Year
Nine different Tar Heels have won National Player-of-the-Year honors, including consensus winners Phil Ford (1978), Michael Jordan (1984) and Antawn Jamison (1998). Other winners are Jack Cobb (1926), George Glamack (1940 and 1941), Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), James Worthy (1982), Kenny Smith (1987) and Jerry Stackhouse (1995). Jordan, named by eight organizations as a junior, also was The Sporting News' pick as a sophomore in 1983.
Associated Press (since 1961) - Jordan (1984), Jamison (1998)
Wooden Award (since 1977) - Ford (1978), Jordan (1984), Jamison (1998)
Naismith Award (since 1969) - Jordan (1984), Jamison (1998)
NABC (since 1975) - Ford (1978), Jordan (1984), Jamison (1998)
USBWA (since 1959) - Ford (1978), Jordan (1984), Jamison (1998)
NBA
There were 14 former Tar Heels active in the NBA in 2003-04 on training camp rosters, including Vince Carter (Toronto), Hubert Davis (Detroit), Joseph Forte (Seattle), Rick Fox (Los Angeles Lakers), Brendan Haywood (Washington), Antawn Jamison (Dallas), Kris Lang (Washington), George Lynch (New Orleans), Jeff McInnis (Portland), Ademola Okulaja (Utah), Jerry Stackhouse (Washington), Scott Williams (Phoenix) and Shammond Williams (Orlando).
Larry Brown (Detroit) is one of the finest head coaches in the league. Dave Hanners (Detroit), John Kuester (Detroit), Pat Sullivan (Detroit), Robert McAdoo (Miami) and Mike O'Koren (New Jersey) are assistant coaches. Mitch Kupchak is General Manager of the Lakers and Donnie Walsh is CEO of the Indiana Pacers.
NBA Champions
Three-time NBA champion Rick Fox of the Los Angeles Lakers is one of 12 former Tar Heels who have gone on to win NBA championship rings as players. Those 12 players have accounted for 27 rings. The rest of the ACC has a combined 17 players winning 27 rings.
NBA 50
In the late 1990s, the NBA selected its All-time 50 Greatest Players. Former Tar Heels Billy Cunningham, Michael Jordan and James Worthy were named to the team. Carolina, Houston and LSU were the only schools to have three players on the team.
NCAA Tournament
Carolina is second in NCAA history with 35 appearances, 116 games played and 81 wins in the NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels established an alltime record with 27 consecutive trips to the Tournament from 1975-2001. UNC has the fifth-best win percentage (.698) in Tournament history.
No. 1
Carolina has been ranked No. 1 in the nation in the Associated Press poll in 15 different seasons since the A.P. began its rankings in 1948-49. Those seasons include 1957, 1958, 1959, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998 and 2001.
The Tar Heels have been No. 1 on 84 occasions. Carolina is second all-time in weeks ranked No. 1 in the country behind UCLA (128).
Matt Doherty (two weeks) was the fourth different Carolina head coach to have his team ranked No. 1 in the nation. Frank McGuire had teams ranked No. 1 for 11 weeks, Dean Smith had teams ranked No. 1 60 times and Bill Guthridge led the Tar Heels to the No. 1 ranking for eight weeks.
Carolina has been ranked in the Top 10 505 times. That is the second-highest figure in NCAA basketball history. Carolina has appeared in the AP poll 653 times, more than any other school in history. Duke is second in ACC history with 508 rankings.
No. 1 vs. No. 2
Carolina has played in six games involving the top two ranked teams in the country by the Associated Press poll and the Tar Heels are 6-0 in those games (4-0 as No. 1 and 2-0 as No. 2).
A list of those games:
March 23, 1957 - No. 1 UNC 54, No. 2 Kansas 53
Dec. 26, 1981 - No. 1 UNC 82, No. 2 Kentucky 69
Jan. 9, 1982 - No. 1 UNC 65, No. 2 Virginia 60
Feb. 4, 1986 - No. 1 UNC 78, No. 2 Ga. Tech 77
Feb. 3, 1994 - No. 2 UNC 89, No. 1 Duke 78
Feb. 5, 1998 - No. 2 UNC 97, No. 1 Duke 73
Olympics
Twelve (12) former Tar Heels have represented their country in the Olympic Games. Michael Jordan won gold medals in 1984 and 1992. Larry Brown (1964), Charles Scott (1968), Walter Davis (1976), Phil Ford (1976), Mitch Kupchak (1976), Tom LaGarde (1976) and Vince Carter (2000) have also won gold medals. Bobby Jones won silver in the highly controversial 1972 Games and J.R. Reid took home a bronze in 1988. Al Wood was a member of the 1980 U.S. Team which did not compete in Moscow and Henrik Rodl played for Germany in 2000.
Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge coached the U.S. to gold in Montreal in 1976 and Brown assisted the U.S. Team in 2000.
Larry Brown is the head coach for Team USA in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Roy Williams is one of Brown's assistant coaches.
One
Sophomore guard Melvin Scott is the only player in Carolina basketball history who has worn the uniform number 1. Two players - Eric Montross and Brendan Haywood - wore '00.' Sophomore guard Raymond Felton is the first to ever suit up wearing number '2.' The most commonly worn number in Carolina basketball history is '20,' which has been worn by 21 different Tar Heels, although none since Steve Bucknall in 1989.
ucknall became the last player to wear it when the University decided to retire George Glamack's #20. Glamack was the National Player of the Year in 1940 and 1941.
Patterson Medal
The Patterson Medal is the most prestigious athletic award granted at UNC. It is presented annually to the top senior student-athlete, based primarily on athletic accomplishment, although sportsmanship and leadership are also considered.
Twenty-six different men's basketball players have won the award, including: Monk McDonald (1924), Jack Cobb (1926), Henry Satterfield (1929), Virgil Weathers (1934), Andy Bershak (1938), Paul Severin (1941), Bobby Gersten (1942), Jim Jordan (1946), Albert Long Jr. (1955), Jerry Vayda (1956), Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Larry Miller (1968), Bill Bunting 1969), Charles Scott (1970), Dennis Wuycik (1972), George Karl (1973), Charles Waddell (1975), Mitch Kupchak (1976), Walter Davis (1977), Phil Ford (1978), Al Wood (1980), Brad Daugherty (1986), Kenny Smith (1987), Jeff Lebo (1989), Antawn Jamison (1998) and Brendan Haywood (2001).
Player of the Week
Antawn Jamison was named ACC Player of the Week a record 12 times. Wake Forest's Tim Duncan is second with 11. Jamison won the award seven times in 1997-98, four times in 1996-97 and once in 1995-96. No other player even won the award more than five times in a year since the league began selections in 1969-70. Georgia Tech's Travis Best (1993-94) and Duke's Elton Brand (1998-99) won five times in a year.
Wake Forest's Tim Duncan (11), NC State's David Thompson (9), Wake Forest's Randolph Childress (7), Best (7) and Maryland's Juan Dixon (7) round out the top five career recipients.
Tar Heels have won ACC Player of the Week honors 89 times, the most in ACC history. Duke is second with 81.
Rameses
Carolina's mascot, a ram, is named Rameses. The Tar Heels have a ram for a mascot because in 1922 the best football player, Jack Merritt, was nicknamed "The Battering Ram." Vic Huggins, the head cheerleader in 1924, came up with the nickname, which was adopted for all of UNC's varsity teams. The Tar Heels were also known as the White Phantoms, a nickname they went by until the late 1940s.
Rams Club
The Educational Foundation, more typically known as the Rams Club, is a non-profit foundation whose members provide the scholarship funding for Carolina's varsity student-athletes to the tune of roughly $7 million per year. John Montgomery is in his third full year as president of the Rams Club.
The Rams Club also raises money for various capital projects in athletics and for other University interests. The staff may be reached at (919) 945-2000.
Rookies
Five former Tar Heels have won NBA Rookie-of-the-Year honors. The most recent was Vince Carter in 1999. Other winners are Bob McAdoo (1973), Walter Davis (1978), Phil Ford (1979) and Michael Jordan (1985). Charles Scott was the ABA Rookie of the Year in 1971.
Lennie Rosenbluth
Only three players in ACC history have been named ACC Player of the Year, ACC Tournament MVP, NCAA Regional MVP and National Player of the Year in the same season - Antawn Jamison, Duke's Christian Laettner and Lennie Rosenbluth.
Rosenbluth averaged a school-record 28.0 points in 1957 when he led the Tar Heels to a 32-0 record and the NCAA championship. Rosenbluth's #10 is retired and he is one of the ACC's Top 50 Greatest Basketball Players.
Season Tickets
There is no public sale of season tickets at Carolina. All season tickets are purchased by members of the Rams Club and by UNC employees. The only way to secure season basketball tickets right now is to endow either a half scholarship ($75,000 over 7 years) or a full scholarship ($150,000 over 8 years). Location is assigned by points, which are obtained by donations, not pledges. They can be passed down one generation.
Original donors to the Smith Center campaign gave a one-time capital gift, and have to stay at one of our annual giving levels to keep the rights to the seats. These seats can be passed down in perpetuity.
Charles Scott
The first African-American scholarship basketball player at UNC was New York's Charles Scott, who came to Chapel Hill after prepping at the Laurinburg Institute. 'Great Scott' earned first-team All-America honors and was Co-ACC Athlete of the Year in 1970, led UNC to Final Fours in 1968 and 1969, won an Olympic gold medal in 1968 and an NBA title with the Boston Celtics in 1976. He is one of the ACC's 50 Greatest Basketball Players.
In 1969, Scott scored 40 points, including 29 in the second half, to beat Duke in thr ACC championship game. He then sent the Tar Heels to the Final Four with a buzzer-beating jumper to edge Davidson, 87-85.
7-0
On February 24, 1979, Carolina held the ball for most of the first half and trailed Duke, 7-0, at the half. The Blue Devils went on to win, 47-40. One week later in the ACC Tournament championship game, Mike O'Koren and Dudley Bradley combined for 34 points as the Tar Heels beat Duke, 71-63.
In 1966, Duke led UNC, 7-5, at the half and beat the Tar Heels, 21-20, in the ACC semifinals.
The Shot I
Walter Davis hit a 28-foot bank shot as time expired to send the UNC-Duke game into overtime on March 2, 1974. The Tar Heels went on to a 96-92 victory. The game is one of the most famous in college basketball history because Carolina trailed, 86-78, with 17 seconds to play.
The Shot II
Michael Jordan's 17-footer from the wing with 15 seconds to play gave Carolina 63-62 win over Georgetown in the 1982 NCAA championship game. Jimmy Black assisted on the game-winner.
Famous Shots
* Pete Brennan's jumper with three seconds left to send the national semifinals vs. Michigan State into a third overtime, March 22, 1957;
* Charles Scott's 20-footer with three seconds remaining to beat Davidson and send UNC to the 1968 Final Four;
* Walter Davis' 28-footer vs. Duke, March 2, 1974;
* Dudley Bradley's steal and game-winning dunk at NC State on Jan. 17, 1979;
* Michael Jordan's 17-footer to beat Georgetown in the NCAA championship game, March 29, 1982;
* Jordan's 24-footer against Tulane to send the game into the first of three overtimes, Nov. 30, 1982;
* Jordan's steal and dunk against Virginia, capping a comeback from 16 points down in the second half, Feb. 10, 1983;
* Rick Fox's bank shot at the buzzer to beat No. 1 ranked Oklahoma in the 1990 NCAA Tournament second round, March 17, 1990;
* George Lynch's steal of a Charlie Ward pass and dunk to cap a 21-point second-half deficit against Florida State, Jan. 27, 1993;
* Rasheed Wallace's alleyoop dunk off the break at Duke, March 5, 1994;
* Jerry Stackhouse's wraparound dunk at Duke, Feb. 2, 1995;
* Antawn Jamison's tip-in while falling down to beat Maryland, Jan. 6, 1996;
* Dante Calabria's tip-in at the buzzer to beat Duke, 73-72, on Jan. 31, 1996;
* Vince Carter's dunk over Tim Duncan and Wake Forest on Feb. 19, 1997;
* Julius Peppers' alleyoop dunk from Ronald Curry against Wake Forest on Jan. 6, 2001.
Sports Illustrated
Michael Jordan has been on the cover of Sports Illustrated 52 times (as of Oct. 1, 2003), more than any other athlete in history. Muhammad Ali is second with 38 appearances.
Jordan and Dean Smith have been named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year - Jordan in 1991 and Smith in 1997. They are the only ACC basketball players or coaches to win the award.
Dean Smith
Smith is the winningest coach in NCAA history (879 wins), two-time NCAA champion (1982 and 1993), 11 Final Fours, 13 ACC Tournament championships, 20 ACC Tournament finals, 17 regular-season ACC titles, 27 NCAA Tournament appearances, an NIT championship, head coach of the 1976 Olympic gold medalists, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer, 24 Top 10 rankings, eight-time ACC Coach of the Year and 30 20-win seasons.
Smith was named Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year (1997) and was an Arthur Ashe Award for Courage recipient. In 2000, ESPN named Smith one of the seven greatest coaches of all-time. He was joined on that list by Red Auerbach, Bear Bryant, George Halas, Vince Lombardi, John McGraw and John Wooden.
Smith Center
The Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center opened on January 18, 1986. No. 1 ranked Carolina beat No. 3 Duke, 95-92. Center Warren Martin scored the first UNC basket in the Smith Center. Carolina is 195-41 all-time in the Smith Center.
After several upgrades and renovations, the Smith Center's capacity is now 21,750, making it the largest arena in the ACC and one of the largest in the nation.
TV
Carolina, a fixture on national television, was featured in the first television game involving ACC teams (Jan. 8, 1955 vs. Wake Forest), the first game on C.D. Chesley's ACC Network (Dec.7, 1957 vs. Clemson) and the first basketball game broadcast live across the state of North Carolina (March 15, 1957 vs. Canisius in the NCAA East Region semifinals).
All but one game on this year's schedule will be televised.
32-0
The 1956-57 team posted a perfect 32-0 record and won the NCAA championship. The Tar Heels had to survive several close games along the way to the title, including an unprecedented pair of triple overtime thrillers in the Final Four.
UNC won nine of its 32 games by five points or less and had four games go into overtime. Pete Brennan saved the day in the national semifinals against Michigan State as he hit a jumper with three seconds to tie the game and extend it into a third overtime. National Player of the Year Lennie Rosenbluth scord 20 points in the championship game and Joe Quigg hit a pair of free throws with six seconds left in the third overtime to give Carolina a 54-53 win over Kansas.
Sports Illustrated selected the 1957 national title game against the Jayhawks as the second-best college basketball game ever played.
The 1957 Tar Heels are one of only 12 unbeaten teams in NCAA history. That Carolina team and the 1976 Indiana team share the NCAA record for most wins in a season without a loss with 32.
Three Straight
Carolina won the regular-season championship and ACC Tournament championship for three consecutive seasons from 1967-69. This was in the era when only the ACC Tournament champion was eligible to compete in the NCAA Tournament.
UNC is still the only school that has won three consecutive outright regular-season championships and ACC Tournament titles.
1,000 Assists
Ed Cota is one of only three players in NCAA history to have at least 1,000 career assists. The Brooklyn, N.Y., native is the only player in NCAA history to have at least 1,000 assists, 1,000 points and 500 rebounds. Cota handed out 1,030 assists. He also scored 1,261 points and had 517 rebounds. He is one of only three Tar Heels to start in three different Final Fours (1997, 1998 and 2000).
1,000 Points
North Carolina has more 1,000-point career scorers than any other school in the country. The Tar Heels have had 53 players reach 1,000 points. That figure is one more than Louisville and two more than Duke. Kentucky is fourth with 49 and Kansas is fifth with 45.
Twenty-two (22) of the 53 have scored at least 1,500 points and five - Phil Ford (2,290), Sam Perkins (2,145), Lennie Rosenbluth (2,045), Al Wood (2,015) and Charles Scott (2,007) - netted at least 2,000 points. The most recent players to reach 1,000 points were Jason Capel (1,447) and Kris Lang (1,392).
Tin Can
From 1924-1937 Carolina played its home games in the Indoor Athletic Center, on ground that is now home to Fetzer Gymnasium. Students nicknamed the metal structure the Tin Can. It was the home of the Tar Heels until Woollen Gym was built in 1938.
Top Three
Carolina finished in first, second or third place in the ACC regular-season standings 37 consecutive years from 1964-65 to 2000-01. That is an unequaled run of consistency. Overall, the Tar Heels have finished in the top three in the league 44 times in 49 seasons.
Dean Smith prefers to mention how many times the Tar Heels finished in first or second place in the league standings - 23 times in first place and 13 in second place. No other school in the ACC has more than 15 first place finishes and more than 25 top-two placements.
Triple-Doubles
There have only been 18 triple-doubles in ACC history and the two most recent ones were by Tar Heels in a span of two weeks.
In fact, Brendan Haywood and Jason Capel became the first two players in UNC history to register triple-doubles. Haywood had 18 points, 14 rebounds and 10 blocked shots against Miami (Fla.) on December 4, 2000. Capel had 16 points, 11 boards and 10 assists on December 17, 2000, against Buffalo.
No Carolina opponent has ever recorded a triple-double.
20 Wins
Carolina won at least 20 games for an NCAA record 31 consecutive seasons from 1970-71 to 2000-01. In that time, the Tar Heels won at least 25 games 21 times and at least 30 games three times.
Uniforms
Carolina basketball uniforms are among the most recognizable in the sports world. World-renowned designer and Carolina alumnus Alexander Julian re-designed the uniforms prior to the start of the 1991-92 season. Mr. Julian added the argyle pattern down the sides of the jersey and shorts, emboldened the trim and upgraded the fabric among other changes.
In 1999-2000, the words 'North Carolina' on the front of the jersey were replaced by the interlocking NC logo. A year later, 'North Carolina' went back on the jersey.
Victories
Carolina is second all-time in wins with 1,808. Kentucky is first with 1,849 and Kansas is third with 1,801. No other schools have won 1,700 or more games.
The Tar Heels are first in ACC regular-season wins (503), first in ACC Tournament wins (75) and second in NCAA Tournament wins (81).
Roy Williams
Carolina's 18th head men's basketball coach was an assistant coach under Dean Smith from 1978-88 and the head coach at the University of Kansas from 1989-2003. Williams had a 418-101 record in 15 seasons in Lawrence and led the Jayhawks to four Final Fours. Williams grew up in the Biltmore community in Asheville, N.C. He played one season, 1968-69, on the UNC freshman team under Coach Bill Guthridge, and earned his undergraduate degree from Carolina in 1972.
Woollen Gymnasium
Carolina played its home games from 1938-1965 in Woollen Gym, which is located adjacent to Carmichael Auditorium, the building that replaced it as UNC's basketball home. Woollen was named after Charles T. Woollen, the University's business manager who pushed for its construction. Total cost of the building was $646,000, none of which came from state funds.
Woollen is still in use today and is home to some of the best and most intense pickup basketball games on any college campus.
