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 seven NCAA men’s college national championships (1924, 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, and 2017). [2] North Carolina’s six NCAA Tournament Championships are third-most all time, supporting University of California, Los Angeles(11) and University of Kentucky(8). They also have won 18 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles,[3] 32 Atlantic Coast Conference regular season titles, and an Atlantic Coast Conference record 20 outright Regular Season Championships. [4] The program has produced many notable players that went on to play at the NBA, including three of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History: Billy Cunningham, Michael Jordan and James Worthy. Most Tar Heel assistant coaches have gone on to become head coaches everywhere.
In the Tar Heels’ first season in 1910–11 throughout the 2017–18 year, the program has gathered a .738 all-time winning percentage (second greatest all-time), winning 2,232 games and losing 792 matches in 108 seasons. The Tar Heels also have the maximum consecutive 20-win seasons with 31 seasons from the 1970–71 period through the 2000–2001 season. [9] On March 2, 2010, North Carolina became the second school basketball program to reach 2,000 wins in its history. The Tar Heels are now ranked 3rd all time in wins monitoring Kentucky by 31 games and Kansas from 16 games. The Tar Heels are one of just four Division I Men’s Basketball programs to have achieved 2,000 successes. Kentucky, Kansas, and Duke will be another three. North Carolina has averaged more wins per year played than any other program in college basketball.
Carolina has played 160 games in the NCAA championship game. The Tar Heels have emerged in the NCAA Tournament Championship Game 11 occasions, and have been at a record 20 NCAA Tournament Final Fours. The Tar Heels have made it to the NCAA championship 50 occasions (second-most all time ),[11][12] and have gathered 123 victories (second most all-time). [11][12] North Carolina also won the National Invitation Tournament in 1971,[3] and appeared in two NIT Finals with six appearances in the NIT Tournament. [3] Additionally, the team has been the number one seed in the NCAA Championship 17 times, the most recent being in 2019 (nearly #1 seeds all time ).
North Carolina has been rated in the Top 25 in the AP Poll an all-time record 908 weeks,[13] has beaten #1 rated teams per record 14 times,[14] has the maximum consecutive 20-win seasons with 31,[15] and also the most consecutive top-3 ACC regular season finishes with 37. [15] North Carolina has finished the season ranked in the Top-25 of their AP Poll 50 times and in the Top-25 of the Coaches’ Poll 52 times. Further, the Tar Heels have ended the year ranked #1 in the AP Poll 5 times and ranked #1 in Coaches’ Poll 6 times. In 2008, the Tar Heels obtained the first unanimous preseason #1 ranking in the history of the Coaches’ Poll[16] or the AP Poll. [17] In 2012, ESPN rated North Carolina #1 on its list of the 50 most successful programs of the past 50 years.
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