tell us the issue they want the presidential candidates to address and date 2020 campaign and with the january 20 deadline for this year's studentcam competition approaching, students are putting the final touches on their entries. $100,000 ining total cash prizes plus a $5,000 gram price. for more information, go to studentcam.org. next, the c-span cities tour visits the carolina basketball museum to learn about the history of tar heel basketball which dates back to 1910. [school band playing] ♪ carolina basketball started

19 10. they won the first basketball championship in 1957 with an undefeated season. north carolina wins the championship. seven championships. 18 acc championships, coaches of the year, olympians, and a lot of great nba players have come out of the nba. 52 tar heel players have been drafted. >> go, heels! >> you are standing in the carolina basketball museum in the building immediately adjacent to where the carolina men's basketball team plays its games. the purpose is to tell the story of carolina basketball. dean smith, our legendary hall of fame basketball coach, has donated his entire collection of

basketball memorabilia to the university. this basketball museum is sort of the one place that houses that history. we decided we wanted to start off with how the uniforms have evolved through the years. one thing people get a kick out of is the number 10 jersey, the national player of the year in 1957, lenny rosenbloom. when we won the championship. people are stunned to see there is red in the jersey. frank maguire was the coach at the time and wanted to jazz up the uniforms, so he put red trim in and people were surprised. throughout the years, there is not much red in the carolina uniforms. that is the color of our rival, nc state, so now our uniforms are blue-and-white and that is it. the blue and white came out of way back when -- there were a

couple literary societies at unc and one's colors were white and one's were blue, so that is how it came about. north carolina basketball took off in the 1940's and 1950's and has become the top program in all of college sports, not just basketball. carolina basketball is one of those marquee programs both in the atlantic coast conference and across the country. college basketball has changed across the years and certainly the biggest change is with integration. in 1910, it was all white teams. the first black basketball player at north carolina was charlie scott. in 1966. he became an nba hall of famer. we have had tremendous former black players. michael jordan. a lot of the successive carolina basketball has come from black players. it was an all-white team in 1910. when the acc was formed in 1953, that set in motion what is now known as acc basketball.

acc, four years into the carolina went 32-0, undefeated national champions, and beat wilt chamberlain in triple overtime in the national championship game. that game changed basketball in the acc. when north carolina won, there were 10,000 people at the airport when they came back. it was the first televised game in the state of north carolina, the national championship game. so for a lot of reasons, it took off in the 1950's with that national championship team including lenny and tommy. some of the great tar heels from that team. from that, coach smith, dean smith began his program five years after that and became the winningest coach in college basketball history and is a legend in chapel hill. dean smith was our head basketball coach from 1961 to

1997. when he retired, he was the winningest coach in college basketball history. he helped the united states win the olympics in 1976. he won two national championships. and he developed the carolina program. play smart and play together. those are themes that all of the coaches that have come after coach smith, they all live by that idea. play hard, play smart, and play together. that is what coach smith lived by. this sort of grecian urn is sports illustrated sportsman of the year. one of the top awards in all of sports each year. the si sportsman of the year, coach smith won in 1997. there is a great story about how we got the artifact for the museum. he had listed it on the inventory of items he donated, we could not find it so we

looked everywhere, even at his house, and nobody could find it. and then somebody who visited , his house five years earlier said, i think i know where that is. they went to the house, looked on top in the dining room of a cabinet and tucked in between two plants on top of this cabinet in his house was one of the most prestigious awards given in sports each year. the other one that is very prominent is the presidential medal of freedom that president obama bestowed upon coach smith several years ago. that is a photo of his family members, as well as coach got -- as well as coach etheridge on the left and coach williams on the right with michelle and barack obama. the people at the university took tremendous pride in coach smith receiving that award. all basketball awards are great, but the presidential award of freedom is probably the most

prestigious artifact in this museum. there are three players who have their own cases here at the carolina basketball museum great point, a guard in the tyler hansbrough, 1970's. and of course michael jordan, who many people believe, and we think here is the greatest basketball player of all time. michael was good enough to loan us several items from his collection. we also found some great artifacts in our own files of letters that coach smith sent to michael, things he wanted him to work on. a recruiting card that coach smith kept on every player he ever recruited. one of the great things about that card was -- first on the "mike" andhe name

not michael. and his middle name is magic. people did not know until they saw that card that in high school his nickname was magic jordan. michael went to his home in chicago and picked out several items to put in the museum, whether it was nba all-star game trophies, m.v.p., national player awards that he won at north carolina. one item that gets a lot of mention is the recruiting letter that code should shove ski from duke had sent to michael. it is probably one of the most talked about items because of the respect michael has for the coach. and the duke program has gone heights. on two great it is certainly one of those pieces where people go, why is there a letter from duke university? they see it is a letter about his recruitment. we are very fortunate -- obviously, michael is a great ambassador of the university of north carolina and one of the greatest players of all time in all of nba history. basketball is important not just at unc, but in this state, this

region, certainly in our community, and definitely on campus at unc. the acc has grown. it was called tobacco road because so many of the colleges were based in north carolina. basketball is part of the culture. part of when you come to school in north carolina, people come here to be part of carolina basketball, men's and women's basketball, carolina athletics in general. it is not the primary reason people come to the school. getting a great education will always be the primary mission, but basketball is part of that. it is part of the fabric of this community, part of life in the azz and people do take it seriously here at north carolina. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to chapel

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