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Matt Doherty

Matt Doherty played basketball for the University of North Carolina from 1980 to 1984, winning the 1982 NCAA championship alongside James Worthy and Michael Jordan, and was named the school's head coach on July 11, 2000. His first Carolina team won 26 games and a share of the ACC regular-season title.

Source: UNC Athletics: Matt Doherty, Men's Basketball Coach

1962– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. UNC men’s basketball wins the 1982 NCAA national championship UNC defeated Georgetown, 63–62, to win the national title. People: Dean Smith, James Worthy, Michael Jordan, Matt Doherty Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · NCAA championship history: Division I men’s basketball · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, March 30, 1982, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, April 29, 1982, p. 8
  2. Doherty's first Carolina team shares the ACC regular-season title In Matt Doherty's first season the Tar Heels won 26 games, were ranked No. 1 late in the regular season and shared the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title with a 13-3 league record. The Associated Press named him national coach of the year. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Athletics: Matt Doherty, Men's Basketball Coach
  3. Matt Doherty is named head coach of UNC men's basketball Doherty, who had played at Carolina under Dean Smith from 1980 to 1984, was named the school's 17th head basketball coach after one season as head coach at Notre Dame. He succeeded Bill Guthridge. People: Dean Smith Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Bill GuthridgeSearch the index · UNC Athletics: Matt Doherty, Men's Basketball Coach
  4. Carolina's men's basketball team goes 8-20 in Doherty's second season In Matt Doherty's second season the Tar Heels finished 8-20. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · UNC Athletics: Matt Doherty, Men's Basketball Coach
  5. Matt Doherty resigns as Carolina's men's basketball coach Doherty resigned after three seasons, following meetings that athletic director Dick Baddour and Dean of Students Melissa Exum held with his players after the season. Chancellor James Moeser said the issue was leadership, not wins and losses. People: James Moeser, Dick Baddour Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: Melissa ExumSearch the index · UNC Athletics: Matt Doherty Resigns As Men's Basketball Coach
  6. Roy Williams is named head coach of UNC men's basketball Williams left Kansas a week after losing the NCAA championship game and was introduced in Chapel Hill as UNC's head coach, succeeding Matt Doherty. People: Roy Williams, Matt Doherty Place: Dean E. Smith Center, Chapel HillSearch the index · ESPN: Men's college basketball news, April 14, 2003

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True blue: Matt Doherty returns to Carolina basketball

DeWitt, David · 2002

David DeWitt's account of Matt Doherty's return to the University of North Carolina as head basketball coach, published by Diamond Communications in 2002. Doherty, a member of the 1982 championship team, coached the Tar Heels from 2000 to 2003. Topics include Doherty, basketball coaches in Chapel Hill and the Tar Heel basketball team. 400 pages with illustrations.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Library of Congress record: Doherty, Matt, 1962-.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Football Office records, 1934-2008.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Football Office · 1934

Records of the Football Office at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1934 to 2008, counted at 5,152 items, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40291. Coaches and players represented include Mack Brown, Bill Dooley, Dick Crum, Carl Torbush, John Bunting, Charlie Justice and Lawrence Taylor. The records also concern the university's baseball, basketball and tennis programs. Materials in English.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Doherty, Matt, 1962-.

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Doherty, Matt: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

2000

Matt Doherty in action as head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina, a single print dated 2000 from the UNC Athletics binder of the Chapel Hill Historical Society's Prints and Photographs Collection (CHHS.002).

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