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carolina basketball started in 1910. it won its first national championship in 1957 with an undefeated 32-0 season. >> north carolina did it! north carolina wins the championship! >> it's won seven national championships, six ncaa tournament championships, 18 acc championships, coaches of the year, olympians and a lot of great nba players have come out of the university of north carolina. 52 former tar heels have been zrafted in the first round of the nba. there's great history on the college, olympic and professional level. >> we're standing in the carolina basketball museum which is in the building adjacent to the smith center. the purpose is to tell the story of carolina basketball. dean smith, our hall of fame basketball coach for 36 years,

he had donated his entire collection of basketball memorabilia which was quite extensive to the university and this museum is sort of the one place that houses all of that history. we decided we wanted to start off with kind of how the uniforms have evolved through the years. one of the things that people get a kick out of when they see the museum is the number 10 jersey. that's the national player of the year in 1957 when we won the national championship. people are stunned to see there's red in the carolina new jersey. frank mcguire was the coach at the time. and he was out of new york city. he wanted to jazz up the uniforms a little bit. so put a little bit of a red trim in there and people are really surprised. through the years, there isn't much read in the carolina basketball uniforms. that's the color of one of our big rivals. so now our uniforms are blue and white and that's it. but the blue and white came out of -- way back when and there

were a couple literary societies at unc in the 1800s and one's colors were white and one's colors were blue. that's how they came to be light blue and white. north carolina basketball took off in the '40s and '50s and has become one of the top programs in all of college sports. not just basketball. but carolina basketball is one of those marquee programs across the country. college basketball has changed over the years. the biggest change certainly is with integration. back in 1910 it was an all-white team. the first black basketball player was charles scott in 1966. became a great player in the nba. also a hall of famer. we've had tremendous former black players, a lot of the great success of carolina basketball has come from black players, certainly it was an all-white team in 1910. when the acc was formed in 1953, that really kind of set in

motion what is now known as acc basketball. about four years into the acc, north carolina went 32-0, undefeated national champions, beat wilt chamberlain in kansas in triple overtime and that game changed college sports. it changed sports here at the university of north carolina and it changed basketball in the acc. when north carolina won that national championship game, there were 10,000 people at the airport when the team came back. it was the first televised game in the state of north carolina. for a lot of reasons, it really took off in the '50s with that national championship team and some of the great tar heels from that team and from that, you know, coach smith, dean smith, he began his program five years after that. and coach smith became the winningest coach in college basketball history and is a

legend here in chapel hill. dean smith was our head basketball until 1997. when he retired, he was the winningest coach in college basketball history. he helped the united states win back the gold medal at the olympics in 1976. he won two national championships and more than that, he built a great program. the carolina way of play hard, play smart, play together. and those of themes that all the coaches that have come after coach smith, now roy williams, they live by the idea of play hard, play smart, play together. and that's what coach smith lived by. this sort of grecian-style urn, that's the sportsman of the year. the si sportsman of the year. he won that in 1997. it was a great story about how we got that artifact for the museum. he listed it on the inventory of

items that he was donating to the university but we couldn't find it. so we looked everywhere, in every closet in the smith center, the basketball office and even at his house and nobody could find it. and then somebody who had visited his house five years earlier had said, hey, i think i know where that is. and so they went to the house and they looked on top in the dining room of a cabinet and there tucked in between two plants on the top of this cabinet in his house was one of the most prestigious awards that is given in sports each year. the other one that's very predominant is the presidential medal of freedom that president obama bestowed upon coach smith several years ago. that's a photo of his family. they're with the president and michelle obama. people at the university of north carolina took tremendous pride in coach smith receiving that world. basketball awards are great, but

the presidential medal of freedom is the top thing. it's the most prestigious artifact that is here in the museum. there are three players who have their own cases here at the carolina basketball museum. phil ford, a great point guard in the '70s, tyler handsbro and of course, michael jordan who many people believe 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 here in our own files of letters that coach smith sent michael, of things that he wanted him to work on. a recruiting card that coach smith kept on every player that he ever recruited. and one of the great things about that card, first of all, on the card it's mike, not michael, and magic jordan. his nickname, magic, like magic

johnson. a lot of people didn't know in high school michael's nickname was magic jordan. on the other side of the case, we were fortunate that michael let us go to his home in chicago and pick out several items to put here in the museum. whether it was nba all-star game trophies, mvp of the all-star game, national player awards that he won here at north carolina, one of the items that gets a lot of mention is a recruiting letter that coach krzyzewski at duke sent michael. michael has great respect for coach crzyzewski. we're very fortunate. michael is a great ambassador of the university of north carolina and certainly one of the greatest players of all time,

not necessarily as a tar heel, but all of nba history. basketball is important not just at unc, but in this state, in this region, certainly in our community and definitely here on campus at unc. the acc has grown. it was called tobacco road because so many of the programs were based here in north carolina. it's part of when you come to school at north carolina a lot of if people that come here come because they want to be part of carolina basketball, carolina athletics in general. athletics is important. it's not the primary reason people come to the school. getting a great education is always going to be the primary mission at unc, but basketball is part of the fabric of this community. it's part of the fabric of life in the acc and people do take it seriously here at north carolina. coming up today, dr. anthony

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