basketball, which dates back to 1910. (music) >> with an undefeated 32-0 season. >> north carolina did it. >> they have won seven national championships, 18 acc championships, coaches of the year, olympians, and a lot of great nba players have there is great history on the professional level. kim >> you are standing in the carolina basketball museum in the building immediately

adjacent to where the carolina men's basketball team plays its games. 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. one thing people get a kick out of is the number 10 jersey, the national player of the year in 1957 when we won the championship. people are stunned to see there is red and 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 big rivals an mc state. so blue and white came out of, a couple of literary societies, and ones colors were white and ones colors were blue. and that is how the colors came to be blue and white. it took off in the forties and fifties basketball, i and has become the top program in all of college sports, not just basketball. carolina basketball is a marquee program across the country. basketball has changed across the years and certainly the biggest change is with integration. in 1910, it was all white teams. charlie scott was the first black player in 1966, became an nba hall of famer. michael jordan, a lot of the successive carolina basketball has come from black players.

when the acc was formed in 1953, that set in motion what is now known in acc basketball. about four years in, carolina went 32-0, undefeated national beat wilt chamberlain in triple overtime. that 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, so for a lot of reasons, it took off in the 1950's with that national championship team,

some of the great tar hills 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. he was the coach from 1961 to 1997. when he retired, he was the winningest coach in basketball history. he helped the united states when the olympics in 1976. play smart and play together. all of the coaches that have come after coach smith, they all live by that idea. that is what coach smith lived by this sort of -- this sort of grecian urn is sports illustrated sportsman of the 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. 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. 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 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

guthridge on the left and coach williams on the right with michelle and barack obama. they 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 -- phil ford, tyler hansbrough, 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 learn on, a recruiting card that coach smith kept on every player he recruited.

first on the card, it is mike and 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. it is probably one of the most talked about items because of the respect michael has for the coach. it is certainly one of those pieces where people go, why is there a letter from duke university?

they see it is a letter to michael about his recruitment. 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 programs 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 athletics is important. 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 life in the acc, and people take it seriously at

north carolina.

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