List of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball head coaches

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Current head coach Roy Williams led the team to the NCAA Championships in 2005 and 2009.

The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program represents the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in college basketball. The basketball team plays at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Tar Heels originally did not play within any athletic conference, but joined the Southern Conference in 1921 when it was first established.[1] After playing in the Southern Conference for 22 years, North Carolina left in 1953 to join the newly created ACC.[2] The Tar Heels play their home games in the Dean E. Smith Center, named after the 15th head coach Dean Smith.

The team has had 18 head coaches in its history and has played two seasons without one.[3] The program has played 2,835 games in 103 seasons from the 1910–11 to the 2012–13 season. During those seasons, three coaches have led the team to a NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship: Frank McGuire in 1957; Smith in 1982 and 1993; and Roy Williams in 2005 and 2009. Smith, in 1971, led North Carolina to its only National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship. North Carolina also received a retroactive national championship for the 1923–24 team coached by Norman Shepard, which was given by the Helms Athletic Foundation.[4] Eleven coaches have won the conference regular season, by having the best overall regular season record, with the Tar Heels: Norman Shepard, Monk McDonald, Harlan Sanborn, Bo Shepard, Bill Lange, Walter Skidmore, Ben Carnevale, McGuire, Smith, Matt Doherty, and Williams. Eleven coaches have won the conference tournament with the Tar Heels: Norman Shepard, McDonald, Sanborn, Bo Shepard, Lange, Skidmore, Carnevale, McGuire, Smith, Bill Guthridge, and Williams.

Smith had the longest tenure at North Carolina, coaching for 36 seasons, and is the all-time leader in games coached (1,133) and wins (879). Smith's 879 wins were the most of any NCAA men's Division I coach at the time of his retirement in 1997.[5] Smith also won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1976 for coaching the United States while also working as the head coach of North Carolina, a feat that no other North Carolina coach has replicated.[6][A 1] Several coaches both played for and coached basketball at North Carolina. McDonald and Doherty played for and coached the men's varsity basketball team, and both played on teams that were awarded national championships, McDonald on the 1923–24 team and Doherty on the 1981–82 team.[8][A 2][A 3] Williams both played for and coached the North Carolina men's junior varsity team.[11] Brothers Norman and Bo Shepard are the only two head coaches to be related to each other.[12] Norman Shepard is the all-time leader in winning percentage, having never lost a game. Statistically, Cartmell has been the least successful coach of the Tar Heels, with a winning percentage of .510. No coach has had an overall losing record at North Carolina.[13] Six coaches have received coaching awards while the head coach of North Carolina: Carnevale, McGuire, Smith, Gutheridge, Doherty, and Williams. Carnevale, McGuire, Smith, and Williams have all been inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. The current coach is Williams, who was hired in 2003.[14]

Statistics

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Former coach Nat Cartmell, an Olympic athlete, was the first men's basketball coach for North Carolina from 1910–1914.
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Former coach Dean Smith coached from 1961–1997 and has the most wins of any North Carolina men's basketball coach.
Statistics are correct as of the end of the 2012–13 college basketball season.
# Name Term GC OW OL O% CW CL C% RCs CCs NCs Awards
1 Nat Cartmell 1910–1914 49 25 24 .510 — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — — —
2 Charles Doak 1914–1916 34 18 16 .529 — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — — —
3 Howell Peacock 1916–1919 37 23 14 .622 — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — — —
4 Fred Boye 1919–1921 36 19 17 .528 — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — &&&&&&&&&&&-ec99 c7.7 — — —
— No official coach[3] 1921–1923 37 30 7 .811 8 3 0.727 1 1 — —
5 Norman Shepard 1923–1924 26 26 0 1.000 7 0 1.000 1 1 1: 1924♥ —
6 Monk McDonald 1924–1925 25 20 5 .800 8 0 1.000 1 1 — —
7 Harlan Sanborn 1925–1926 25 20 5 .800 7 0 1.000 1 1 — —
8 James Ashmore 1926–1931 117 80 37 .684 37 19 0.660 0 0 — —
9 Bo Shepard 1931–1935 85 69 16 .812 35 9 0.795 1 1 — —
10 Walter Skidmore 1935–1939 90 65 25 .722 48 16 0.750 1 1 — —
11 Bill Lange 1939–1944 126 85 41 .675 51 18 0.739 2 1 — —
12 Ben Carnevale† 1944–1946 63 52 11 .825 24 4 0.857 1 1 —

BHOF (1970)[17]
NCHOF (2006)[18][A 7]
13 Tom Scott 1946–1952 165 100 65 .606 64 36 0.640 0 0 — —
14 Frank McGuire† 1952–1961 222 164 58 .739 99 31 0.762 5 1 1: 1957♠

BHOF (1977)[19]
NCHOF (2006)[18]
UPI (1957)[20][A 8]
ACC (1957)[21][A 9]
15 Dean Smith† 1961–1997 1133 879 254 .776 364 136 0.728 17 13 3: 1971‡
1982♠
1993♠

FHOF (2007)[22]
BHOF (1983)[6]
NCHOF (2006)[18]
NABC (1977)[20]
USBWA (1979)[20]
N (1993)[20]
BT (1993)[20]
LOCA (1993)[20]
ACC (1967, 1968, 1971, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1993)[21]
OGM (1976)[6]
SY (1997)[6]
16 Bill Guthridge 1997–2000 108 80 28 .741 32 16 0.667 0 1 —

NABC (1998)[20]
N (1998)[20]
SN (1998)[20]
CBS (1998)[20]
ACC (1998)[21]
17 Matt Doherty 2000–2003 96 53 43 .552 23 25 0.479 1 0 —

AP (2001)[20]
18 Roy Williams† 2003–present 361 282 79 .781 117 45 0.722 6 2 2: 2005♠
2009♠

BHOF (2007)[23]
NCHOF (2006)[18]
AP (2006)[20]
USBWA (2006)[20]
ARC(2006)[20][A 10]
ACC (2006, 2011)[21][A 11]
Totals 2835 2090 745 0.737 904 358 0.716 38 25

Notes

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  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Tar Heels went without a head coach during the 1921–22 and 1922–23 seasons because Fred Boye left after one year and they could not find a replacement in time. Bob Fetzer, who coached football and baseball for North Carolina, would often accompany the team on road games but since Fetzer did not know anything about basketball he would often sit in the stands or leave the game early. Rappoport 2002, pp. 12–14
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 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 giving the Tar Heels the national championship for the 1923–24 season. While the 1924 team went undefeated, the team did not play a single opponent from north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Nevertheless, the 1924 Tar Heels did beat the Kentucky Wildcats that season and won its conference tournament. Powell 2005, p. 16
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