University of North Carolina Athletics
Jamison Named To N.C. Sports Hall Of Fame
January 12, 2016 | Men's Basketball
Jamison played forward at the University of North Carolina from 1995-98, winning National Player of the Year honors in 1998 from the Associated Press, the United States Basketball Writers Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, The Sporting News and the Naismith and Wooden Awards.
Jamison, who grew up in Charlotte and attended Providence High School, became the first player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to earn first-team All-ACC honors as a freshman, sophomore and junior.
He became the second Tar Heel (with Lennie Rosenbluth) and third player to win ACC Player of the Year, ACC Tournament MVP, NCAA Regional MVP and National Player of the Year honors in the same season. He also was the ACC's Male Athlete of the Year in 1998 and was named to the ACC's 50th Anniversary Team.
As a junior, Jamison scored 822 points, the second-highest figure in UNC history, and pulled down a school-record 389 rebounds. He averaged 22.2 points and 10.5 rebounds, the first double-double by a Tar Heel in 22 years.
Jamison led Carolina to ACC Tournament titles and Final Four berths in both 1997 and 1998. He starred on Dean Smith's final team as head coach and Bill Guthridge's first.
Jamison scored 1,974 points (19.0 per game) and grabbed 1,027 rebounds (9.9) in 104 games as a Tar Heel. He is currently eighth in career scoring and fifth in rebounds in school history. He had 51 double-doubles, second only to Billy Cunningham.
Jamison played some of his best games against Duke, averaging 30.3 points and 12.0 rebounds in three home wins over the Blue Devils, and posting 22 points and 18 rebounds vs. Duke in the 1998 ACC Championship Game.
He was the fourth pick overall in the first round of the 1998 NBA Draft and played with seven NBA teams. Jamison scored 20,042 points, the third-most ever by a Tar Heel in NBA history behind only Michael Jordan and Vince Carter. His 8,157 rebounds are the most ever by a Tar Heel and he is second in three-pointers with 1,163. He averaged more than 20 points five times, was a two-time NBA All-Star (2005 and 2008) and won the Sixth Man Award in 2004. He once scored 51 points in consecutive NBA games.
Jamison is joined in the Class of 2016 by Rod Brind'Amour, Eric "Sleepy" Floyd, David Fox, James "Rabbit" Fulghum, Haywood Jeffires, Freddy Johnson, Ray Price and Susan Yow.
They will be enshrined during the 53rd annual induction banquet on the evening of Friday, May 6, at the Raleigh Convention Center.
Ticket information for the banquet is available at ncsportshalloffame.org or by calling (919) 845-3455.
The N.C. Sports Hall of Fame was established in 1963. The permanent exhibit, North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, is located on the third floor of the N.C. Museum of History in Raleigh and features significant artifacts and memorabilia donated by inductees. The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission is free.
University of North Carolina Members of the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame
(as of Jan. 12, 2016)
George Barclay (football)
Jim Beatty (track)
Pete Brennan (men's basketball)
Kelvin Bryant (football)
Jack Cobb (men's basketball)
Brad Daugherty (men's basketball)
Walter Davis (men's basketball)
Anson Dorrance (soccer)
Bill Dooley (football)
Woody Durham (Tar Heel Sports Network)
Chuck Erickson (director of athletics)
Bob Fetzer (director of athletics)
Raymond Floyd (men's golf)
Phil Ford (men's basketball)
Lee Gliarmis (soccer)
Bill Guthridge (men's basketball)
Marshall Happer (tennis)
Dee Hardison (football)
Sylvia Hatchell (women's basketball)
Bunn Hearn (baseball)
Ken Huff (football)
Antawn Jamison (men's basketball)
Bobby Jones (men's basketball)
Michael Jordan (men's basketball)
Charlie Justice (football)
Clyde King (baseball)
Page Marsh (women's golf)
Robert McAdoo (men's basketball)
Don McCauley (football)
Monk McDonald (men's basketball)
Bones McKinney (men's basketball)
Allen Morris (tennis)
Hugh Morton (photographer)
Bob Quincy (sports information)
Walter Rabb (baseball)
Lennie Rosenbluth (men's basketball)
Lee Shaffer (men's basketball)
Karen Shelton (field hockey)
Chunk Simmons (track)
Charlotte Smith (women's basketball)
Dean Smith (men's basketball)
Ed Sutton (football)
John Swofford (football, director of athletics)
Danny Talbott (football/baseball)
Jake Wade (sports information)
Tony Waldrop (track)
Sue Walsh (swimming)
Harvie Ward (men's golf)
Art Weiner (football)
Carla Werden (women's soccer)
Burgess Whitehead (baseball)
Roy Williams (men's basketball)
Harry Williamson (track)
James Worthy (men's basketball)
