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In 1921 North Carolina joined the Southern Conference. [8] In the Southern Conference, the Tar Heels quickly found success. The 1923–24 Tar Heels squad went 26-0 and was retroactively awarded the national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936. [9] Overall, the Tar Heels played 32 seasons in the Southern Conference from 1921 to ...
The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program is a college basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels have won six NCAA championships (1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, and 2017) in addition to a 1924 Helms Athletic Foundation title (retroactive). North Carolina has won a record 133 NCAA tournament ...
The Tar Heels represent the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the NCAA's Atlantic Coast Conference. North Carolina began competing in intercollegiate basketball in 1910. [1] However, the school's record book does not generally list records from before the 1950s, as records from before this period are often incomplete and inconsistent.
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On February 29, 1924, UNC beat Kentucky, 41–20, in the first-ever game of the Kentucky–North Carolina rivalry. Kentucky's star player James McFarland had been a high school All-American. [ 31 ] Cobb and Carmichael combined for 31 points, "and easily poured in enough shots from long distance to win the game".
The 1945–46 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1945–46 NCAA men's basketball season. The head coach was Ben Carnevale, and the team played its home games at Woollen Gymnasium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
In 1921, North Carolina joined the Southern Conference (SoCon). A year later, Cartwright Carmichael and Monk McDonald became the first Tar Heels named to an All-Southern Conference team. North Carolina was a member of the league from 1921 to 1953, and twenty-two Tar Heels received All-Southern Conference honors a total of thirty-four times.
The team won the 2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, the fifth NCAA national title in school history. Considered one of the greatest teams in college basketball history, the Tar Heels won their six NCAA tournament games by double digits, and by an average of 19.8 points per game.