| 2008-09 Tarheel Basketball Schedule | ||||
| Game | Date | Time |
Package Includes |
Price |
| vs. UNC-Pembroke | W, 102-62 | —— | —— | —— |
| vs. Penn | W, 86-71 | —— | —— | —— |
| vs. Kentucky | 11/18/08 | 9:00 PM | —— | —— |
| at UC Santa Barbara | 11/21/08 | 10:00 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. Chaminade (Maui) | 11/24/08 | 9:30 PM | Away Game | —— |
| Maui Invitational | 11/25/08 | TBA | Away Game | —— |
| Maui Invitational | 11/26/08 | TBA | Away Game | —— |
| vs. UNC-Asheville | 11/30/08 | 6:30 PM | —— | —— |
| at Michigan St. | 12/03/08 | 9:15 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. Oral Roberts | 12/13/08 | 6:00 PM | —— | —— |
| vs. Evansville | 12/18/08 | 7:00 PM | —— | —— |
| at Valparaiso | 12/20/08 | 2:00 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. Rutgers | 12/28/08 | 7:45 PM | —— | —— |
| at Nevada | 12/31/08 | 10:00 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. Boston College | 1/04/09 | 5:30 PM | —— | —— |
| vs. College of Charleston | 1/07/09 | 9:00 PM | —— | —— |
| at Wake Forest | 1/11/09 | 8:00 PM | Away Game | —— |
| at Virginia | 1/15/09 | 9:00 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. Miami | 1/17/09 | 9:00 PM | —— | —— |
| vs. Clemson | 1/21/09 | 9:00 PM | —— | —— |
| at Florida St. | 1/28/09 | 9:00 PM | Away Game | —— |
| at NC State | 1/31/09 | 3:30 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. Maryland | 2/03/09 | 8:00 PM | —— | —— |
| vs. Virginia | 2/07/09 | 4:00 PM | —— | —— |
| at Duke | 2/11/09 | 9:00 PM | Away Game | —— |
| at Miami | 2/15/09 | 7:45 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. NC State | 2/18/09 | 8:00 PM | —— | —— |
| at Maryland | 2/21/09 | 3:30 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. Georgia Tech | 2/28/09 | 12:00 PM | —— | —— |
| at Virginia Tech | 3/04/09 | 7:00 PM | Away Game | —— |
| vs. Duke | 3/08/09 | 4:00 PM | —— | —— |
| * Price is per person. | ||||
The University of North Carolina's men's basketball program is among the most prominent and successful college basketball programs in the nation. The Tar Heels have won four NCAA championships and 16 Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles. The program is most well-known for its famous alumni, such as Michael Jordan, illustrious coaching history, and a fierce rivalry with the Duke University Blue Devils (a team located only eight miles away in Durham, North Carolina). The rivalry is widely regarded as one of the most intense in all of sports.
On January 21, 2007, UNC became only the second college basketball program to reach 1,900 wins in its history. The University of Kentucky was the only previous school to reach this mark.
UNC played its first basketball game against Virginia Christian, on January 27, 1910, a 42-21 win for UNC. Since then the Tar Heels have amassed an all-time 1,914-696 (.733) record (through the 2006-2007 season). UNC's 1,914 wins are second all time, behind the University of Kentucky's 1,949 wins.
The 1924 Tar Heels squad went 26-0 and was retroactively awarded the national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936. The Helms Foundation named its own national college basketball champion for each year from 1936 through 1982. The foundation also retroactively awarded championships from 1901 through 1935. While the 1924 team was undefeated, they did not play a single opponent from north of the Mason-Dixon Line; indeed, intersectional play would not start on a regular basis for another decade.
The Tar Heels won their first NCAA Championship under coach Frank McGuire in 1957. The 1957 championship team was led by Lennie Rosenbluth and several other transplants from the New York City area. C.D. Chesley, a Washington, D.C. television producer, piped the championship game in Kansas City to a hastily-created network of stations across North Carolina--an event which proved pivotal in basketball becoming a craze in the state.
McGuire was forced to resign in 1961 and was replaced by one of his assistants, Dean Smith. Smith led the Tar Heels to 13 ACC tournament titles, as well as two NCAA titles in 1982 and 1993. The 1982 squad was led by James Worthy, Sam Perkins, and a young Michael Jordan. The 1993 team starred Donald Williams, George Lynch and Eric Montross. Roy Williams, the current head coach of the Tar Heels, won his first NCAA Championship and the fourth for the university in 2005. The 2005 squad was led by Raymond Felton, Sean May, and Rashad McCants.
UNC was a member of the Southern Conference from the founding of that conference in 1921 through 1953. In 1953, UNC split off from the Southern Conference and became a founding member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Dean Smith
Dean Edwards Smith (born February 28, 1931) is a retired head coach of men’s college basketball. Originally from Emporia, Kansas, Smith has been called a “coaching legend” by the Basketball Hall of Fame. Smith is best known for his successful coaching tenure at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (“UNC”) for 36 years. Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired as the NCAA Division I men's basketball coach with the most wins ever with 879 wins. This record was later surpassed by Bobby Knight in 2006. Smith has the 9th highest winning percentage of any men’s college basketball coach at 77.6. During his time as head coach of UNC, the team won two national titles and appeared in 11 Final Fours.
Smith is also known for running a clean program and having a high graduation rate for his players with 96.6% players going on to graduate. While at UNC, Smith helped promote desegregation by recruiting UNC’s first African American scholarship player Charlie Scott and pushing for equal treatment for African Americans by local businesses. Smith coached and worked with numerous individuals at UNC that went on to achieve notable success in basketball, as either players or coaches or both. Smith retired as head coach from UNC in 1997 saying that he was not able to give the team the same level of enthusiasm that he had had given it for years. Since retirement, Smith has used his influence to help out in various charitable ventures and political activities.
Dean Smith: Early years
Smith was born in Emporia, Kansas on February 28, 1931. Both of his parents were public school teachers. Smith's father, Alfred, coached the Emporia High Spartans basketball team to the 1934 state title in Kansas. This 1934 team was notable for having the first black basketball player in Kansas tournament history. While at Topeka High School Smith lettered in basketball all four years and was named all-state in basketball as a senior. Smith's interest in sports was not limited only to basketball. Smith also played quarterback for his high school football team and catcher for the high school baseball team.
Dean Smith: College Years
After graduating from high school, Smith attended the University of Kansas on an academic scholarship where he majored in mathematics and joined the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta. While at Kansas, Smith continued his interest in sports by playing varsity basketball, varsity baseball, and freshman football. During his time on the varsity basketball team, Kansas won the national championship in 1952 and finished second in 1953. Smith's basketball coach during his time at Kansas was the legendary Forrest "Phog" Allen, who had been coached in college by the inventor of basketball James Naismith. After graduation, Smith served as assistant coach at Kansas in the 1953–54 season. Ironically, after leaving Kansas Smith watched with disappointment as the University of Kansas team that he had helped coach lost to UNC in the 1957 national championship game in triple overtime.
Dean Smith: Coach of United States Air Force
Smith next served a stint in the United States Air Force in Germany, and then worked at the United States Air Force Academy as head coach of its baseball and golf teams.
Dean Smith: Years at North Carolina
In 1958, North Carolina coach Frank McGuire asked Smith to join his staff as an assistant coach. Smith served under McGuire for three years until 1961, when McGuire was forced to resign by Chancellor William Aycock in the wake of recruiting scandals. Aycock asked Smith, then 30 years old, to become the new head coach.
In his first season as head coach, the ACC had canceled the Dixie Classic, an annual basketball tournament in North Carolina, because of a national point shaving scandal that included four N.C. State players (Don Gallagher, Stan Niewierowski, and Terry Litchfield) and one UNC player (Lou Brown). As a result of the scandal, both N.C. State and UNC de-emphasized basketball by cutting their regular-season schedules. In Smith's first season from 1961–62, UNC played only 17 games and went 8-9. As it turned out, this would be the only losing season he would ever suffer. In 1965, he was famously hanged in effigy on the university campus after a disappointing loss to Wake Forest. After that game, his team ended up winning nine of the last eleven games. After a slow beginning, Smith turned the program into a consistent success. After the 1966 season, Smith would never finish lower than third in the ACC. His first major successes came in the late 1960s, when his teams won three consecutive regular-season and tournament championships in the Atlantic Coast Conference, and went to three straight Final Fours. It took Smith seven trips to the Final Four before winning his first national title, and then it took him nine more years to return, and two more to get another national championship.
Dean Smith: First National Championship
Dean Smith's first national championship occurred in 1982, when the team was composed of future NBA players such as Michael Jordan and James Worthy. Before entering in the NCAA Tournament, UNC had a record of 32-2. Upon reaching the Final Four, the other teams that advanced with UNC were Georgetown, Houston and Louisville. In the semi-finals, UNC defeated Houston 68-63 in New Orleans while Georgetown defeated Louisville with the score of 50-46.
In the final game in New Orleans, Georgetown faced UNC in front of 61,612 spectators. The UNC squad faced a Georgetown team stacked with another future NBA star, Patrick Ewing. There was a constant lead change between the teams; Georgetown was leading with a full court press and UNC was put on the defensive. The climax of the game occurred when Jordan, with 18 seconds left on the clock, stole a pass and made a field goal. This, along with a foul on Worthy at the two second mark, sealed the game and the NCAA Championship for UNC.
The 1982 NCAA Division 1 Championship Game was between the Georgetown Hoyas, led by Patrick Ewing, versus the North Carolina Tar Heels, led by James Worthy and a young Michael Jordan.
The game was evenly matched throughout. However, with 17 seconds left in the clock, and the Tar Heels behind by 1 point, Michael Jordan made the game-winning shot, 63-62. Georgetown ran all the way to the end of the court, and held the ball, hoping to take a last-second shot to end the game. However, Jordan stepped into guard Fred Brown's passing lane, and Brown mistakenly passed the ball to James Worthy. Worthy was then immediately fouled. Even though he missed both free throws, it didn't matter. Georgetown had no timeouts left, and they lost the game. Georgetown would eventually win the Championship Game in 1984, against Houston's Phi Slama Jama, led by Hakeem Olajuwon, but the 1982 game would be remembered by Jordan's shot and Brown's turnover.
The main players in the 1982 and 1984 game (Ewing, Worthy, Jordan and Olajuwon) would all become future all-stars and shoo-in Hall of Famers, and led their respective teams to the Finals. Only Ewing retired without an NBA championship, losing to Olajuwon's Houston Rockets in a rematch 10 years after the 1984 game, in the 1994 NBA Finals (he would reach the finals again in 1999, but only to lose to the Tim Duncan/David Robinson-led San Antonio Spurs).
Dean Smith: Second National Championship
In 1993, fielding players such as George Lynch, Eric Montross, Brian Reese, Donald Williams and Derrick Phelps, the team started out with an 8-0 record until losing to Michigan at a last minute shot. Wins over Duke and Tennessee during the final games of the season placed the Tar Heels as the top seed in the ACC tournament. The tournament was eventually won by Georgia Tech, which faced UNC without the injured Derrick Phelps in the final match. Starting at the national tournament, North Carolina defeated East Carolina, Rhode Island and Cincinnati while playing in the regionals. After defeating Kansas in the semi-finals, UNC was set to play Michigan in New Orleans. Stacked with Chris Webber and the rest of the Fab Five, the Michigan squad could not defeat UNC again as they did earlier in the season. While Smith was generally known for being a fairly even-keel coach, he was ejected from the 1991 Final Four game between UNC and Kansas after receiving two technical fouls.
Dean Smith: Retirement
Smith announced his retirement on October 9, 1997. He had said that if he ever felt he could not give his team the same enthusiasm he had given it for years, he would retire. His announcement was a shock to the basketball community and fans, as he had given little warning that he was considering retirement. Smith had been the only coach many UNC fans had ever known. Bill Guthridge, his assistant for 30 years, succeeded him as head coach.
Even in retirement, some believe that Smith still has a large influence on the current North Carolina basketball program. For example, in 2003 Smith talked to Roy Williams regarding his decision about whether or not to replace a struggling Matt Doherty as head coach. Williams had previously declined the head coaching position three years earlier when Guthridge retired.
Dean Smith: Coaching style
Smith-coached teams varied in style, depending on the players Smith had available. But they generally featured a fast-break style, a half-court offense that emphasized the passing game, and an aggressive trapping defense that produced turnovers and easy baskets. His teams always shot the ball well. From 1970 until his retirement, North Carolina shot over 50 percent from the floor all but four years.
Smith is credited with creating or popularizing the following basketball techniques: The "tired signal," in which a player would use a hand signal (originally a raised fist) to indicate that he needed to come out for a rest, huddling at the free throw line before a foul shot, encouraging players who scored a basket to point a finger at the teammate who passed them the ball, in honor of the passer's selflessness. Instituting a variety of defensive sets in one game, having the point guard call out the defense set for the team, and creating a number of defensive sets, including the point zone, the run-and-jump, and double-teaming the screen-and-roll.
But strategically, Smith is most associated with his implementation of the four corners offense, a strategy for stalling with a lead near the end of the game. Smith's teams executed the four corners set so effectively that in 1985, the NCAA instituted a shot clock to speed up play and minimize ball-control offense. Although fellow Kansas alum John McClendon actually invented the four corners offense, Smith is better known for utilizing it in games. Smith is also the author of Basketball: Multiple Offense and Defense, which is the best-selling technical basketball book in history.
Smith also instituted the practice of starting all his team's seniors on the last home game of the season ("Senior Day") as a way of honoring the contributions of the subs as well as the stars. In one season when the team included six seniors, he opted to put all six on the floor at the beginning of the game – drawing a technical foul – rather than leave one of them out.
During the 1993 run for the national title, Coach Smith used a method that was introduced to him. At a conference in Switzerland, Smith was presented a tape of a lecturer who used doctored images to achieve his goal of losing weight. The photo showed him of what he will look like if he was thin, which gave him motivation to reach that goal. Using this tactic in mind, Smith took a picture of the scoreboard from the 1982 Championship and modified it to say 1993 and erased the name Georgetown and left it blank. He proceeded to place copies of the photo in all of the lockers so the players can look at it and achieve the goal that Smith wanted.
Dean Smith: Accomplishments and recognition
• 879 wins in 36 years of coaching, 2nd most in men's college Division I basketball history behind Bobby Knight. Adolph Rupp's 876 wins came after 41 years of coaching.
• 77.6% winning percentage, which puts him 9th on highest winning percentage.
• Fourth total number of college games coached with 1,133.
• Most Division I 20-win seasons, with 27 consecutive 20-win seasons from 1970–1997 and 30 20-win seasons total.
• 22 seasons with at least 25 wins
• 35 consecutive seasons with a 50% or better record.
• Two national championships (1982, 1993)
• 11 Final Fours (second all-time to John Wooden's 12).
• 17 regular-season ACC titles, plus 33 straight years finishing in the conference's top three and 20 years in the top two
• 13 ACC tournament titles
• 27 NCAA tournament appearances, including 23 consecutive.
• 96.6% graduation rate among players.
• Recruited 26 All-Americans to play at North Carolina under him.
• His players were often successful in the NBA. Five of Smith's players have been Rookie of the Year in either the NBA or ABA. Among Smith's most successful players in the NBA are Michael Jordan, Larry Brown, James Worthy, Sam Perkins, Phil Ford, Bob McAdoo, Billy Cunningham, Kenny Smith, Walter Davis, Jerry Stackhouse, Antawn Jamison, Rick Fox, Vince Carter and Rasheed Wallace. Smith coached 25 NBA first round draft picks.
• In 1976, Smith coached the United States team to a gold medal at the Summer Olympics in Montreal.
• Smith is one of only three coaches to have coached teams to an Olympic gold medal, an NIT championship and an NCAA championship. The others are Pete Newell and Bobby Knight.
•Smith is one of only two people that have both played on and coached a winning NCAA championship basketball team. The other is Bobby Knight.
Dean Smith: Recognition
Smith received a number of personal honors during his coaching career. He was named the National Coach of the Year four times (1977, 1979, 1982, 1993) and ACC Coach of the Year eight times (1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1993). Smith was also inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on May 2, 1983, two years after being enshrined in the North Carolina Hall of Fame.
Smith was the first recipient of the Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement, given by the University of North Carolina Committee on Teaching Awards for "a broader range of teaching beyond the classroom." He has also been awarded honorary doctorates by Eastern University and Catawba College.
The basketball arena at UNC, the Dean Smith Center, was named for Smith. It is also widely referred to as the "Dean Dome". In 1997, upon his retirement, Smith was named Sportsman of the Year by the magazine Sports Illustrated. ESPN named Smith one of the five all-time greatest American coaches of any sport. In 1998 he won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, presented at the annual ESPY Awards hosted by ESPN.
On November 17, 2006, Smith was recognized for his impact on college basketball as a member of the founding class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was one of five, along with Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, John Wooden and Dr. James Naismith, selected to represent the inaugural class. In 2007, he was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame.
Streaks
The Tar Heels own several of the most impressive streaks in college basketball history. They appeared in either the NCAA Tournament or National Invitation Tournament (NIT) every year from 1967 to 2001--including 27 straight appearances in the NCAA tourney from 1975-2001 (the all-time consecutive appearance record) after that competition allowed more than one team from a conference to get a guaranteed bid. Arizona is second to the Tar Heels with a current streak of 23 NCAA Tournament appearances, which is the longest active streak. The Tar Heels also notched 37 straight winning seasons from 1964 to 2001--the second-longest such streak in NCAA history, behind only UCLA's streak of 54 consecutive winning seasons from 1948 to 2002.
From the ACC's inception in 1953 to 2001, the Tar Heels did not finish worse than a tie for fourth place in ACC play. From 1965 onward, they did not finish worse than a tie for third, and from 1965 to 1986 they did not finish worse than a tie for second. Neither of these streaks have been seriously threatened by another ACC team; during this time the ACC's other six charter members finished first at least once and last at least once, and only Clemson failed to win a tournament title.
All of these streaks ended in the 2001-02 season, when the Tar Heels had a dreadful 8-20 season, the worst in school history. They also finished tied for 7th in conference play, behind Florida State and Clemson--their second losing conference record ever (the first being in the ACC's inaugural season).
Additionally, the Tar Heels hold an interesting and possibly unique record in terms of a recurrent head-to-head rivalry. In 53 tries, Clemson has never beaten UNC in men's basketball in a game that was played in Chapel Hill, current as of the 2006-07 season.
Coaching tree
One hallmark of Smith's tenure as coach was the concept of the "Carolina Family," the idea that anyone associated with the program was entitled to the support of others. Many of his former players and assistant coaches have followed Smith into the coaching profession.
• Roy Williams, former KU coach and UNC coach since 2003
• Bill Guthridge, Smith's successor at UNC
• Matt Doherty, a former Smith player and former Notre Dame and later UNC coach who now coaches at SMU
• George Karl, a point guard under Smith, currently coach of the Denver Nuggets
• Larry Brown, a former Smith player, the former coach of the New York Knicks, winner of championships in both the NBA (Detroit Pistons) and college (Kansas)
• Eddie Fogler, former National Coach of the Year at both Vanderbilt and South Carolina
• Billy Cunningham, coach of the 1983 NBA champion Philadelphia 76ers
• Jeff Lebo, coach at Auburn
• Buzz Peterson, Director of Player Personnel of the Charlotte Bobcats. Former coach at Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State, Tulsa, and Tennessee
• Mitch Kupchak, general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers
• Tony Shaver, reserve point guard under Smith, now head coach at William & Mary
• Terry Truax, former Smith assistant and former head coach at Towson
• Randy Wiel, former Smith player and former head coach at Middle Tennessee and UNC Asheville
• Phil Ford, former Smith player and former assistant coach at UNC as well as the Detroit Pistons and currently an assistant coach for the Charlotte Bobcats.
• Dave Hanners, former Smith player and former assistant coach at UNC as well as the Detroit Pistons and currently an assistant coach for the New York Knicks.
• Pat Sullivan, former Smith player and former assistant coach at UNC as well as the Detroit Pistons and currently an assistant coach for the New Jersey Nets.
• King Rice, former Smith player and former assistant coach at Oregon, Illinois State and Providence and currently an assistant coach for Vanderbilt.
Notable players and coaches
Lennie Rosenbluth, member of 1957 championship team, '57 ACC Player of the Year
Walter Davis, NBA All-Star
Bobby Jones, NBA All-Star, innaugural winner of the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year
Rick Fox, 3-time NBA Champion
Bob McAdoo, NBA Hall of Famer
Larry Brown, current Executive Vice President of the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA
Vince Carter, currently with New Jersey Nets
Shammond Williams, played for 3 NBA teams (SEA, NO, LAL)
Ademola Okulaja, currently playing for Brose Baskets from Germany
Billy Cunningham, Basketball Hall of Famer, member of the NBA 50 Greatest Players
Brad Daugherty, NBA All-Star, currently with ESPN as color analyst
Hubert Davis, currently with ESPN as color analyst
Raymond Felton, member of the 2005 championship team, currently with Charlotte Bobcats
Phil Ford, UNC's all-time scoring leader
Ed Cota, currently plays for Hapoel Jerusalem in Israel
Brendan Haywood, currently with Washington Wizards
Tyler Hansbrough, 2006 ACC Rookie of the Year
Antawn Jamison, currently with Washington Wizards
Michael Jordan, 6-time NBA Champion, member of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players, member of the 1982 championship team
George Karl, currently coaches the Denver Nuggets in the NBA
George Lynch, member of the 1993 championship team
Jackie Manuel, former NBADL player, member of the 2005 championship team
Sean May, member of the 2005 championship team, currently with Charlotte Bobcats
Rashad McCants, member of the 2005 championship team, currently with Minnesota Timberwolves
Eric Montross, member of the 1993 championship team
Jeff McInnis, currently with Charlotte Bobcats
David Noel, member of the 2005 championship team, currently with Milwaukee Bucks
Sam Perkins, member of the 1982 championship team
J. R. Reid, 1987 ACC Rookie of the Year
Kenny Smith, TNT basketball analyst
Jerry Stackhouse, currently with Dallas Mavericks
Reyshawn Terry, member of the 2005 championship team, currently with Aris BC of Greece
Rasheed Wallace, currently with Detroit Pistons
Marvin Williams, member of the 2005 championship team, currently with Atlanta Hawks
Roy Williams, 2007 Naismith basketball hall of fame candidate
Joe Wolf, member of the 1982 championship team
James Worthy, Basketball Hall of Famer, Member of the NBA 50 Greatest Players, member of the 1982 championship team, 3-time NBA Champion with L.A. Lakers
Brandan Wright, currently with Golden State Warriors
Mitch Kupchak, current general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers
Joseph Forte, currently plays in Russia with UNICS Kazan
Lee Shaffer, 1960 ACC Player of the Year
Matt Doherty, member of 1982 championship team, UNC head coach from 2000-03
Awards
NCAA National Coach of the Year:
Frank McGuire - 1957
Dean Smith - 1977, 1979, 1982, 1993
Bill Guthridge - 1998
Matt Doherty - 2001
Roy Williams - 2006
ACC Coach of the Year:
Frank McGuire - 1957
Dean Smith - 1967, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1993
Bill Guthridge - 1998
Roy Williams - 2006
NCAA National Player of the Year:
Lennie Rosenbluth - 1957
Phil Ford - 1978
James Worthy - 1982
Michael Jordan - 1983, 1984
Kenny Smith - 1987
Jerry Stackhouse - 1995
Antawn Jamison - 1998
Tyler Hansbrough - 2008
ACC Player of the Year:
Lennie Rosenbluth - 1957
Pete Brennan - 1958
Lee Shaffer - 1960
Billy Cunningham - 1965
Larry Miller - 1967, 1968
Mitch Kupchak - 1976
Phil Ford - 1978
Michael Jordan - 1984
Antawn Jamison - 1998
Joseph Forte - 2001 (Shared with Duke's Shane Battier)
Tyler Hansbrough - 2008
ACC Rookie of the Year:
Sam Perkins - 1981
Michael Jordan - 1982
J.R. Reid - 1987
Ed Cota - 1997
Joseph Forte - 2000
Marvin Williams - 2005
Tyler Hansbrough - 2006
Brandan Wright – 2007
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