UNC Basketball History

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Thanks!

I can watch that steal and dunk a thousand times!

You know you’re effed when Derrick Phelps is on your ballhandlers like a ravenous honey badger and your guys have lost track of where George Lynch is.

My UNC Dream Team is atypical:
  • Derrick Phelps (PG)
  • Michael Jordan (SG)
  • Dudley Bradley (SF)
  • Bobby Jones (PF)
  • Sam Perkins (C)
Bench: Steve Hale (PG, SG, SF), Walter Davis (SG, SF), George Lynch (PF, SF)

Not UNC’s greatest offensive players ever although MJ, Perkins, and Sweet D.

Good luck scoring on my boys or keeping them off the boards - offensive and defensive.
 


Take an Hour Tar Heel Nation

@10:10 Gerald Tuttle's 'sitting score'
@16:30 79-64 win over SCAR '71
@20:21 17 Seconds v dook
@25:00 Beating DT '75 (76-74)
@34:00 dook, Ford's Sr. Game (See the great tap-out at 35:50)

1982 and the film quality improves drastically

@43:00 Braddock trey, MJ blocks CDriesel, 72-71 v MD & Lefty
@44:47 Jordan steal v uva -- and dunk
@48:00 MJ's last game in Carmichael, Doherty heroics v dook
@50:00 Popson hits with .05 for win, 75-74
@51:00 The Thermostat press conference
@52:10 Last game v clemson

Bobby Lewis scored the first basket in Carmichael
Buzz Peterson scored the last.
 
Coach Smith once said of athletics and the university that they served as the Front Porch in getting folks to gather to come inside. I owe a great deal to my twice-over Alma Mater UNC — The education, my livelihood, friends, experiences. The institution has its faults, as well as some powerful enemies, and as an alum I plan on continuing to demand that it rise rather than sink, progress rather than lurch backward. Carolina has indeed had moments when it has done the right - the ethical - thing, but like so many public entities in a Constitutional Democratic Republic it takes a gathering of wills to push it forward. Strong forces constantly conspire to pull it to the negative.

From 1961 to 1997 Coach Smith gathered a lot of us on the Front Porch to meet and greet. I’m thankful for the way I’ve been exposed to a bigger picture through that original invite to come and sit down.

I remember this day 28 years ago very well. I don’t mind saying that I wept to hear Coach’s good-bye. He had been a constant source of inspiration and guidance in my life for over 30 years. He continues to be by way of memories and his writings (here I have to recommend, ‘A Coach’s Life: My 40 Years in College Basketball’ in which a lot of Dean Smith’s worldview is explained: https://www.amazon.com/Coachs-Life-Years.../dp/0375758801).

On October 9, 1997 Coach Dean Smith unexpectedly retired as Head Coach of Men’s Basketball at the University of North Carolina. He coached 879 wins to 254 losses with 2 National, 13 ACC Tournament, & 17 regular season ACC Championships. He also coached the USA to an Olympic Gold Medal. Over 96% of his players graduated.
 
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Twice the National Player of the Year (1940 & ‘41), Glamack had a unique nickname and a deadly go-to move. He was a 6-6 center.

He averaged 18 ppg in a time when teams tended to average only a little over 40 overall at best.

What was his nickname and his shot?
 
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(I think I’ve got the facts straight on this - help me out if you see a needed correction)

I see a face. I also see the facade of The Riverside Church on the Upper West Side, NYC. Built between 1927 and 1930 and financed by John D. Rockefeller the affiliation began as American Baptist (as opposed to the Southern Baptists who have their own ‘unique’ brand of historical affiliation) but is today interdenominational.

The structure surely isn’t of a Baptist style in any experience of mine. There is a tower rather than a steeple for example and the Neo-Gothic stonework, festooned with saints and even gargoyles wouldn’t fly - to coin a phrase - down #DeepChatham way where once Baptists, modern Mega-Churches aside, sought simplicity and eschewed iconography. Indeed there is a Rockefellerian ostentation about the place, modeled after Chartres Cathedral in France, that furrows my brow, trained up as it was at modest, yet beautiful, Bonlee Baptist Church, just a little every time I pass by.

And I do pass by frequently - every day when I’m in New York as it is in my neighborhood and along the path most taken by Prince and Maxie and I. The 392 foot tall spire plays out the definition of ‘looming’ as it dwarfs the nearby Tomb of Ulysses S. Grant, itself modeled after The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (in Turkey), which the boys and I regularly circle.

Believe it or not there is a North Carolina connection to the place - my Momma taught me well, I always look for those - as in 1989 the Reverend James A. Forbes, born and reared in Burgaw, NC, was named the preacher there. Pastor Forbes, the first African American to head the congregation, served until 2007. More on the deeper Tar Heel connection in a moment.

Despite its conspicuous grandeur, over time The Riverside Church has been a Progressive congregation. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke there in 1967. The focus of his trailblazing remarks that day in April are explained in the title, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break The Silence.” Nelson Mandela , Paul Tillich, Cesar Chavez, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro, the Dalai Lama (14), and Reinhold Niebuhr have also been speakers there over the years.

The previously mentioned Reverend Forbes of Burgaw has not only a North Carolina, but more specifically, a Chapel Hill/Carolina basketball tie. In 1959, when a student at Union Theological Seminary, located just next door to Riverside Church, the young Forbes made his way back to The Old North State to Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. A somewhat typical southern town at the time, Chapel Hill was deeply segregated but with the support and sponsorship of the Reverend Robert Seymour of Binkley, Forbes took a position as summer intern. Norms and old ways were to be broken.

Binkley was the congregation that Dean Smith had begun attending when he arrived in 1958 to serve as an assistant to Tar Heel head coach, New York City’s own Frank McGuire.

That Summer of 1959, the 28 year old Smith, still an assistant, and also quite young Reverend Seymour (Age 34), joined by seminary student James Forbes (24) made good trouble in The Southern Part of Heaven by helping to desegregate Chapel Hill. Coach Smith’s Liberal Progressive ideals are well known and part of what makes us proud of his association with North Carolina. Reverend Forbes, of Burgaw in Eastern North Carolina, is another reason that we can stand tall as well.

That trio entered The Pines Restaurant, staunchly segregated, to dine that summer. Despite decades of adherence to Jim Crow the establishment yielded, and seated and served the men. Seymour had conspired with his friends to break that color line, banking that since Carolina historically took pre-game meals at The Pines, and Smith was a coach, that the quandary of clashing traditions (and hefty dinner tabs) would cause management to flinch from their historic protocol. This locally famous incident did not, however, change the world - The Pines was slow to come around fully and it was not until 1964 that the walls of segregation began to truly crumble there.

So I find there’s a good deal to ponder on the walks. A mighty good deal. As we move forward into our tomorrows the past can infuse us with strength when we know the stories that inhabit our places. Indeed that’s what makes them ‘our’ places and how a Tar Heel, one-time Southern Baptist might connect with the light of Then and stand up straight in the darkness of Now. We gave been shown the path after all.
 
donbosco said:
So 71-72 then! Great year for Tar Heel hoops...I remember listening to those games on the radio and dreaming of Spain. Karl and Previs were my heroes but all of those guys were stars in my eyes.

North Carolina Five Wins In Madrid Tourney, 87‐74 (Published 1971)

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North Carolina Five Beats Madrid, 83.77 in Final (Published 1971)

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Fun facts about that year: That team had the most future Naismith HOFers of any UNC team with three players (McAdoo, Jones, Karl) and of course the coach, Dean Smith. But there was also another future Naismith HOFer on campus that year: Roy Williams, who was a senior at UNC. So that year UNC had five future Naismith HOFers on campus.
 
donbosco said:
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(I think I’ve got the facts straight on this - help me out if you see a needed correction)

I see a face. I also see the facade of The Riverside Church on the Upper West Side, NYC. Built between 1927 and 1930 and financed by John D. Rockefeller the affiliation began as American Baptist (as opposed to the Southern Baptists who have their own ‘unique’ brand of historical affiliation) but is today interdenominational.

The structure surely isn’t of a Baptist style in any experience of mine. There is a tower rather than a steeple for example and the Neo-Gothic stonework, festooned with saints and even gargoyles wouldn’t fly - to coin a phrase - down #DeepChatham way where once Baptists, modern Mega-Churches aside, sought simplicity and eschewed iconography. Indeed there is a Rockefellerian ostentation about the place, modeled after Chartres Cathedral in France, that furrows my brow, trained up as it was at modest, yet beautiful, Bonlee Baptist Church, just a little every time I pass by.

And I do pass by frequently - every day when I’m in New York as it is in my neighborhood and along the path most taken by Prince and Maxie and I. The 392 foot tall spire plays out the definition of ‘looming’ as it dwarfs the nearby Tomb of Ulysses S. Grant, itself modeled after The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (in Turkey), which the boys and I regularly circle.

Believe it or not there is a North Carolina connection to the place - my Momma taught me well, I always look for those - as in 1989 the Reverend James A. Forbes, born and reared in Burgaw, NC, was named the preacher there. Pastor Forbes, the first African American to head the congregation, served until 2007. More on the deeper Tar Heel connection in a moment.

Despite its conspicuous grandeur, over time The Riverside Church has been a Progressive congregation. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke there in 1967. The focus of his trailblazing remarks that day in April are explained in the title, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break The Silence.” Nelson Mandela , Paul Tillich, Cesar Chavez, Desmond Tutu, Fidel Castro, the Dalai Lama (14), and Reinhold Niebuhr have also been speakers there over the years.

The previously mentioned Reverend Forbes of Burgaw has not only a North Carolina, but more specifically, a Chapel Hill/Carolina basketball tie. In 1959, when a student at Union Theological Seminary, located just next door to Riverside Church, the young Forbes made his way back to The Old North State to Binkley Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. A somewhat typical southern town at the time, Chapel Hill was deeply segregated but with the support and sponsorship of the Reverend Robert Seymour of Binkley, Forbes took a position as summer intern. Norms and old ways were to be broken.

Binkley was the congregation that Dean Smith had begun attending when he arrived in 1958 to serve as an assistant to Tar Heel head coach, New York City’s own Frank McGuire.

That Summer of 1959, the 28 year old Smith, still an assistant, and also quite young Reverend Seymour (Age 34), joined by seminary student James Forbes (24) made good trouble in The Southern Part of Heaven by helping to desegregate Chapel Hill. Coach Smith’s Liberal Progressive ideals are well known and part of what makes us proud of his association with North Carolina. Reverend Forbes, of Burgaw in Eastern North Carolina, is another reason that we can stand tall as well.

That trio entered The Pines Restaurant, staunchly segregated, to dine that summer. Despite decades of adherence to Jim Crow the establishment yielded, and seated and served the men. Seymour had conspired with his friends to break that color line, banking that since Carolina historically took pre-game meals at The Pines, and Smith was a coach, that the quandary of clashing traditions (and hefty dinner tabs) would cause management to flinch from their historic protocol. This locally famous incident did not, however, change the world - The Pines was slow to come around fully and it was not until 1964 that the walls of segregation began to truly crumble there.

So I find there’s a good deal to ponder on the walks. A mighty good deal. As we move forward into our tomorrows the past can infuse us with strength when we know the stories that inhabit our places. Indeed that’s what makes them ‘our’ places and how a Tar Heel, one-time Southern Baptist might connect with the light of Then and stand up straight in the darkness of Now. We gave been shown the path after all.
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Riverside Church has a gymnasium in the basement and has for decades been a place where young men learned the game and played in leagues. Kenny Smith played there and I believe so too did Brian Reese. I have also heard that Chris Washburn played there. As the essay above points out, the church has a Carolina basketball connection that goes back over 50 years. I was investigating that and ran across this story from current times. This case is ongoing apparently.

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"Lorch was a volunteer leading the church’s youth recreation program for more than 40 years. The basketball program he started in the Riverside Church basement gym eventually produced future NBA players such as Chris Mullin, Kenny Smith, Kenny Anderson and Metta World Peace."

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NYC church facing lawsuits after prominent youth basketball coach accused of child abuse

A historic New York City church that houses the basketball program considered one of the pioneers behind today’s multibillion-dollar youth sports industry is facing more than two dozen lawsuits related to allegations of child abuse by the program’s founder and longtime coach, according to a new...
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nycfan said:
Yeah, no idea what that stands for …
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Google AI: "The hashtag #HCYJT is a recurring segment on the "Carolina Insider" podcast, which is a show about the UNC Tar Heels sports teams. It is used to mark the end of a specific segment, often referred to as the 'Here Come the Heels' segment, where a particular story or topic is discussed."
 
Zoo_View said:
Thanks!

I can watch that steal and dunk a thousand times! . . ..
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My favorite regular season steal, that I was in the stands for, is the one at Reynolds with NCSU up one (after being down by about 20 at half), and Dudley Bradley steals the ball from Clyde Austin at about half court and goes in for a dunk to put UNC up by one with just a few seconds left. The only thing diminishing that memory was that I had a great view of the shot that Kenny Matthews threw up from half-court as time expired and that shot was dead on and barely missed. Fortunately, I had the good sense to not cheer either time as it would have been unwelcome where I was sitting.
 
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