History & Record Book Carolina Fast Facts 2007 | 08 Robert Crawford Bob Donnan ACC Championships The Tar Heels went 11-5 in ACC play in Dean 2007, winning their 25th regular-season Atlantic Smith Coast Conference championship by tying with Virginia. Carolina also won the 2007 ACC Tour- nament in Tampa, Fla. UNC has won 15 regular-season champi- onships outright, shared 10 others and won 16 ACC Tournament titles. Carolina’s 25 regular- season titles are seven more than Duke and two more than the other 10 ACC teams combined. Michael Jordan ACC 50 The Tar Heels placed 12 on the ACC 50th Anniversary Team, more than any other school. Roy Carolina’s honorees included Lennie Rosen- Williams bluth, Billy Cunningham, Larry Miller, Charles Scott, Bobby Jones, Walter Davis, Phil Ford, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Michael Jordan, Brad Daugherty and Antawn Jamison. ACC Players of the Year Ten different Tar Heels have been named ACC Player of the Year, including Larry Miller, who won the award in 1967 and 1968. Other Tar Heel recipients include Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Pete Brennan (1958), Lee Shaffer ors three times – Lennie Rosenbluth (1956-58), ers who have played in a Final Four with 135. (1960), Billy Cunningham (1965), Mitch York Larese (1959-61), Billy Cunningham Kupchak (1976), Phil Ford (1978), Michael Jor- (1963-65), Charles Scott (1968-70), Phil Ford Final Four MVPs dan (1984), Antawn Jamison (1998) and Joseph (1976-78), Sam Perkins (1982-84) and Antawn Sean May had 26 points and 10 rebounds in Forte (2001). Jamison (1996-98). Carolina’s 75-70 win over Illinois in the 2005 All-Americas NCAA championship game and was named the Draft Day Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. May Forty-seven Tar Heels have earned All-Amer- Carolina has had 92 players selected in the is the third Tar Heel to win that award, along ica honors, including 33 first-team honorees. NBA Draft, including 36 players taken in the with James Worthy in 1982 and Donald The most recent first-team selection was Tyler first round. The Tar Heels have had 17 players Williams in 1993. Hansbrough in both 2005-06 and 2006-07. drafted in the first round in the last 19 years, in- Phil Ford (1976-78), Mike O’Koren (1978- cluding Lottery Pick Brandan Wright in 2007. 500 ACC Wins 80) and Sam Perkins (1982-84) earned first- In 2005, Marvin Williams (2nd), Raymond Fel- The Tar Heels have won 548 regular-season team All-America honors on three occasions. ton (5th), Sean May (13th) and Rashad McCants ACC games, more than any other school in Ford, O’Koren and Perkins and NC State’s (14th) became the first school to have four play- league history. David Thompson and Virginia’s Ralph Samp- ers taken in the NBA Draft Lottery. son are the only three-time, first-team All- James Worthy and Brad Daugherty were se- Freshmen Americas in ACC history. lected No. 1 overall in the draft. Worthy was se- Carolina has had 13 players named to the Carolina is tied for second in NCAA history lected in 1982 by the Lakers; Daugherty was ACC All-Freshman Team since its inception in with 14 consensus first-team All-Americas. taken No. 1 by Cleveland in 1986. 1992-93. Ty Lawson and Brandan Wright made They include George Glamack (1940 and 1941), Michael Jordan was the third player selected the team in 2006-07, joining Tyler Hansbrough, Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), Larry Miller (1968), in the 1984 Draft behind Hakeem Olajuwon Marvin Williams, Raymond Felton, Rashad Mc- Robert McAdoo (1972), Phil Ford (1977 and (Houston) and Sam Bowie (Portland). Cants, Jawad Williams, Joseph Forte, Kris 1978), James Worthy (1982), Michael Jordan Lang, Ed Cota, Antawn Jamison, Jerry Stack- (1983 and 1984), Sam Perkins (1983 and 1984), Final Four house and Rasheed Wallace as All-ACC Fresh- Kenny Smith (1987), J.R. Reid (1988), Jerry Carolina has played in 16 Final Fours, tied man selections. Stackhouse (1995), Antawn Jamison (1998), with UCLA for most in the nation. The Tar Eight Carolina players have been named Joseph Forte (2001) and Tyler Hansbrough Heels played in the Final Four in 1946, 1957, ACC Rookie of the Year, including Sam Perkins (2007). 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1977, 1981, 1982, (1981), Michael Jordan (1982), J.R. Reid All-ACC 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2005. (1987), Cota (1997), Forte (2000), Marvin The Tar Heels won the NCAA title in 1957, Williams (2005), Hansbrough (2006) and Carolina has placed 66 players on the All- 1982, 1993 and 2005. Wright (2007). ACC first team, the most in league history. Rusty Clark (1967-69), Bill Bunting (1967- Twenty-five Tar Heels have started their first Duke is second with 54. Tyler Hansbrough was 69) and Ed Cota (1997-98, 2000) are the only game, the latest being Wayne Ellington and a unanimous selection in 2005-06 and 2006-07. Tar Heels to start in three different Final Fours. Brandan Wright in 2006-07. 4-TIME Seven Tar Heels have earned first-team hon- Carolina holds the NCAA record for most play- NCAA CHAMPS 89 History & Record Book 2007 | 08 Carolina Fast Facts Sally Sather Hall of Famers NBA Champions Eight Tar Heel coaches and players are mem- Michael Jordan won six NBA bers of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, championship rings. He is one of including 2007 inductee Roy Williams, who 13 former Tar Heels who have joined Larry Brown, coach Ben Carnevale, Billy gone on to win NBA champi- Vince Carter Cunningham, Robert McAdoo, coach Frank onship rings as players. Those McGuire, coach Dean Smith and James Worthy. 13 players have accounted for 29 rings. The rest of the ACC has a National Players of the Year combined 21 players winning 34 Nine different Tar Heels have won National rings. Player of the Year honors, including consensus winners Phil Ford (1978), Michael Jordan (1984) NBA 50 and Antawn Jamison (1998). Other winners are In the late 1990s, the NBA se- Jack Cobb (1926), George Glamack (1940 and lected its All-Time 50 Greatest 1941), Lennie Rosenbluth (1957), James Worthy Players. Former Tar Heels Billy (1982), Kenny Smith (1987) and Jerry Stack- Cunningham, Michael Jordan house (1995). Jordan, named by eight organiza- and James Worthy were named tions as a junior, also was The Sporting News’ to the team. Carolina, Houston pick as a sophomore in 1983. and LSU were the only schools to have three players on the team. second-highest figure in NCAA basketball his- Associated Press (since 1961) – Jordan tory. Carolina has appeared in the AP poll 722 (1984), Jamison (1998) NCAA Tournament times, more than any other school in history. Wooden Award (since 1977) – Ford (1978), Carolina is second in NCAA history with 39 Duke is second in ACC history, having been Jordan (1984), Jamison (1998) appearances, 130 games played and 92 wins in ranked 582 times. Naismith Award (since 1969) – Jordan the NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels estab- Carolina is the only school in the country with (1984), Jamison (1998) lished an all-time record with 27 consecutive 12 wins over the No. 1 ranked team in the AP NABC (since 1975) – Ford (1978), Jordan trips to the Tournament from 1975-2001. UNC poll, including a victory at Duke in 2006. (1984), Jamison (1998) has the third-best win percentage (.708) in Tour- No. 1 vs. No. 2 USBWA (since 1959) – Ford (1978), Jordan nament history. (1984), Jamison (1998) Carolina has played in seven games involving No. 1 the top two ranked teams in the country by the Carolina has been ranked No. 1 in the nation Associated Press poll and the Tar Heels are 7-0 in the Associated Press poll in 16 in those games (4-0 as No. 1 and 3-0 as No. 2). different seasons since the AP began its rankings in 1948-49. A list of those games: Those seasons include 1957, March 23, 1957 – No. 1 UNC 54, No. 2 Kansas 1958, 1959, 1978, 1982, 1983, 53 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1993, Dec. 26, 1981 – No. 1 UNC 82, No. 2 Kentucky 1994, 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2007. 69 The Tar Heels have been No. 1 Jan. 9, 1982 – No. 1 UNC 65, No. 2 Virginia 60 on 85 occasions. Carolina is sec- Feb. 4, 1986 – No. 1 UNC 78, No. 2 Ga. Tech 77 ond in weeks ranked No. 1 in the Feb. 3, 1994 – No. 2 UNC 89, No. 1 Duke 78 country behind UCLA (128). Feb. 5, 1998 – No. 2 UNC 97, No. 1 Duke 73 Carolina has been ranked in the Apr. 4, 2005 – No. 2 UNC 75, No. 1 Illinois 70 Top 10 in 553 polls. That is the 1,000-Point Scorers The Tar Heels have had 59 players reach 1,000 points. That figure is the most in the na- tion. Lousville is second with 57. 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. Wins The Tar Heels have won 1,914 basketball games, the second-most in NCAA history. Car- olina, Kentucky and Kansas are the only pro- grams in the country with at least 1,900 wins. 4-TIME NCAA CHAMPS 90 History & Record Book Carolina Fast Facts Carolina Basketball History 2007 | 08 151-18 in those games. 15 for 24 from the line. Feb. 29, 1952: Feb. 24, 1956: Rosenbluth has 31 points and Duke’s Dick Groat scores 14 boards in 73-65 win over Duke that clinches 48, Bernie Jernicki grabs UNC’s first-ever ACC regular-season title.