2009 NCAA champions 2008-09 CAROLINA BASKETBALL 2009-10 REVIEW 2008-09 REVIEW NOTES 2008-09 INDIVIDUAL HONORS Jeffrey Camarati Ed Davis u ACC All-Freshman Team Wayne Ellington u 2009 Final Four Most Outstanding Player u 2009 Final Four All-Tournament team u Honorable Mention All-ACC u Second-Team All-ACC Tournament Marcus Ginyard u Nominee for Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award Danny Green u All-NCAA South Regional team u Third-Team All-ACC u ACC All-Defensive Team u Maui Invitational all-tournament team Tyler Hansbrough u Consensus First-Team All-America (AP, Sporting News, USBWA, NABC, Sports Illustrated, Rupp, Wooden) u Second-Team All-America (FoxSports.com, CBS- Sports.com) u 2009 Final Four All-Tournament team u All-NCAA South Regional team u First-Team All-ACC (unanimous) u First-Team All-ACC Tournament u All-District (USBWA) u National Player of the Year finalist (consensus) u Winner of Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award u Finalist for Sullivan Award TAR HEELS WIN NCAA Tournament in the last five years. The u ACC Player of the Week (Dec. 15) u FIFTH NCAA TITLE rest of the ACC is 20-22 in the NCAA Tourna- Maui Invitational all-tournament team u North Carolina (34-4) won its fifth NCAA ment in that span. Ty Lawson title and its second in five seasons in 2008-09, u ... gave Carolina its fourth consecutive u Cousy Award winner (nation’s best point guard) u First-Team All-America (Wooden, CBSSports.com, beating Michigan State 89-72 in the NCAA win in NCAA championship games, joining Sports Illustrated, Basketball Times) championship game on April 6 at Ford Field in 1982, 1993 and 2005. u Second-Team All-America (AP, Sporting News, Detroit. u ... gave the 2009 UNC senior class the NABC, Rupp) u u Third-Team All-America (FoxSports.com) Carolina was in the Final Four for the sec- most wins of any four-year class in school his- u 2009 Final Four All-Tournament team ond year in a row and the third time in the last tory with 124. u NCAA South Regional MVP five years under head coachRoy Williams. u ... improved UNC to 42-4 in games played u All-NCAA South Regional team u u ACC Player of the Year Williams made his seventh appearance in outside of Chapel Hill in the last two seasons. u First-Team All-ACC the Final Four as a head coach, including his u USBWA District III Player of the Year third at Carolina. Williams is one of 13 head NCAA-RECORD 18 FINAL FOURS u All-District (USBWA) u u Honorable Mention ACC All-Defensive Team coaches to win multiple NCAA championships. North Carolina made its NCAA-record u ACC Player of the Week (Dec. 1, Feb. 16) He also guided the Tar Heels to the 2005 NCAA 18th Final Four appearance in 2009. The Tar u Maui Invitational MVP title in St. Louis. Heels have reached at least one Final Four in u Carolina in the Polls The 2009 postseason marked the first time each of the last seven decades. Date AP ESPN/USA Today Carolina has won all six of its NCAA Tourna- u Carolina’s 18 Final Four appearances have Preseason 1 1 ment games by double figures and the first time come in 1946, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, Nov. 17 1 1 Nov. 24 1 1 any team has done so since 2001. UNC’s aver- 1977, 1981, 1982, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, Dec. 1 1 1 age margin of victory in Tournament play was 1998, 2000, 2005, 2008 and 2009. Dec. 8 1 1 20.2 ppg, the largest of any champion since Dec. 15 1 1 Dec. 22 1 1 Kentucky in 1996. NINE FINAL FOURS IN 19 YEARS Dec. 29 1 1 u In 2009, Carolina made its ninth Final Four Jan. 5 3 3 QUICK LOOKS: UNC’S WIN IN THE Jan. 12 5 6 appearance in a 19-season span. Only five other Jan. 19 5 6 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME ... programs in the nation have played in more Fi- Jan. 26 5 6 u ... brought North Carolina its fifth NCAA nal Fours in their entire histories than UNC has Feb. 2 3 4 Feb. 9 3 3 championship, tying Indiana for third-most all- in that 19-season period. Feb. 16 3 3 time (behind only UCLA’s 11 and Kentucky’s Feb. 23 4 5 seven). UNC has won NCAA titles in 1957, ROY WILLIAMS & March 2 2 2 March 9 1 1 1982, 1993, 2005 and 2009. THE FINAL FOUR March 16 2* 3 u ... improved the Tar Heels to 21-4 in NCAA u The 2009 NCAA title makes Roy Williams April 7 — 1* Tournament play in six seasons under Williams the 13th coach in history to win multiple NCAA *final rank of season and 13-2 in the last three campaigns. The Tar championships as a head coach and the fourth Current consecutive weeks in AP poll: 64 Heels have played in the Final Four three times active coach to do so (joining Mike Krzyzewski Most consecutive weeks in AP poll: 172 in the last five years. No other Atlantic Coast of Duke, Jim Calhoun of Connecticut and Billy All-time weeks ranked in AP poll: 761 All-time weeks in AP Top 10: 591 Conference school has reached a regional fi- Donovan of Florida). All-time weeks at AP No. 1: 105 nal in those five years. Carolina is 20-3 in the u The 2008-09 season marked Williams’ Times ranked preseason No. 1 by AP: 7 Carolina has won 101 games in the last three seasons, 21 more than any other school in the ACC. 81 2009 NCAA champions 2008-09 REVIEW CAROLINA BASKETBALL 2009-10 Jeffrey Camarati seventh NCAA Final Four appearance as a head coach. Previously, Williams guided Kansas to Tyler Hansbrouigh CAROLINA WINS ACADEMIC BRACKET the Final Four in 1991, 1993, 2002 and 2003 u The website Inside Higher Ed filled out a 2009 and the Tar Heels to the 2005, 2008 and 2009 NCAA Tournament bracket based on the NCAA’s Aca- Final Fours, winning the NCAA championship demic Progress Rate (APR) ratings, and Carolina was in ‘05 and ‘09. Williams is fourth in NCAA his- declared champion of the fourth annual Academic Perfor- mance Tournament. tory in Final Four appearances. NOT EVEN CLOSE CAROLINA’S ACC PLAYERS OF THE YEAR u Carolina in 2009 became the first team to win six games by at least 12 points in the same Lennie Rosenbluth: 1957 NCAA Tournament. The closest margin was a Pete Brennan: 1958 72-60 win over Oklahoma in the regional final. Lee Shaffer: 1960 Billy Cunningham: 1965 The only other team to win its first five games Larry Miller: 1967, 1968 by at least 12 points was the 1981 Indiana team Mitch Kupchak: 1976 that beat UNC in the championship game. The Phil Ford: 1978 Michael Jordan: 1984 Hoosiers had a first-round bye and played only Antawn Jamison: 1998 five times to win the title. Joseph Forte: 2001 (co-winner) u UNC’s average margin of victory was Tyler Hansbrough: 2008 20.2 points per game in the NCAA Tournament, Ty Lawson: 2009 the highest since Kentucky blitzed the field in 1996. LAWSON WINS COUSY AWARD u The Tar Heels trailed for a combined 9:50 u North Carolina junior Ty Lawson was the in the six NCAA games, including 7:15 in the recipient of the 2009 Bob Cousy Award as the second round against LSU. nation’s top point guard. Lawson accepted the award on Monday April 6 in Detroit. HANSBROUGH REWRITES u The Clinton, Md., native was the Atlan- RECORD BOOK tic Coast Conference Player of the Year and the Tyler Hansbrough set a number of NCAA, Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA South ACC and Carolina records in his career, includ- Regional. ing: TAR HEELS EXCEL u NCAA: most free throws made (982) AWAY FROM HOME HANSBROUGH, LAWSON EARN u ACC: most points (2,872), most games ALL-AMERICA HONORS u While the NCAA championship game was scoring in double figures (133), most games u Tyler Hansbrough and Ty Lawson scoring 20 or more points (78), most free throw played on a neutral court in Detroit, Ford Field is located less than 100 miles from Michigan earned a number of All-America honors during attempts (1,241) the 2008-09 season. u State’s campus and there were far more Spartan Carolina: most field goals made (939), u Hansbrough was named first-team All- most field goals attempted (1,752), most re- fans than Tar Heel supporters in the building for the championship game. America by the Associated Press, NABC, US- bounds (1,219), most career points in the NCAA u BWA, Sporting News and the Los Angeles Ath- Tournament (325), most career rebounds in the Including neutral site games, UNC is 42-4 away from the Smith Center in the last two sea- letic Club (Wooden). He earned second-team NCAA Tournament (146) honors from CBS and Fox. u sons. Hansbrough, the 2008 National Player of u u Lawson earned first-team honors from the the Year, finished in the top three in voting for Carolina has won 21 of its last 23 overall road games. NABC, the Los Angeles Athletic Club (Wood- ACC Player of the Year in all four seasons and u en), Sports Illustrated, Basketball Times and was a unanimous pick for the All-ACC team Carolina has won 14 of its last 16 ACC road games, dating to the start of the 2007-08 CBS.