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The national titles won by Carolina teams other than women’s soccer, from the 1924 basketball team’s later Helms recognition and the 1957 NCAA title to the field hockey, lacrosse, men’s soccer and tennis championships.
In briefNational titles won by Carolina teams other than women's soccer: the 1924 basketball team's later Helms recognition, men's basketball's six NCAA championships from 1957, women's basketball in 1994, and the field hockey, lacrosse, men's soccer and women's tennis titles since 1981.
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Dated events connected with this event: sixteen of 31, the highlights and a sample of the rest spread across the years, in date order. See all 31 dated events in the chronology →
UNC’s unbeaten 1923–24 team was retrospectively named national champion by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1943.
UNC defeated Kansas, 54–53 in triple overtime, to win the national title.
People: Frank McGuire
UNC defeated Georgetown, 63–62, to win the national title.
People: Dean Smith · James Worthy · Michael Jordan
UNC won the 1982 NCAA men’s lacrosse championship.
People: Willie Scroggs
UNC won the 1989 NCAA field hockey title against Old Dominion.
People: Karen Shelton
UNC defeated Michigan, 77–71, to win the national title.
People: Dean Smith
Charlotte Smith’s last-second three-pointer gave UNC a 60–59 victory over Louisiana Tech.
People: Sylvia Hatchell
UNC won the 1997 NCAA field hockey title against Old Dominion.
People: Karen Shelton
UNC defeated Illinois, 75–70, to win the national title.
People: Roy Williams
UNC defeated Michigan State, 89–72, to win the national title.
People: Roy Williams
UNC defeated Charlotte to win the 2011 NCAA men’s soccer championship.
UNC won the 2016 NCAA men’s lacrosse championship.
UNC won the 2018 NCAA field hockey title.
People: Karen Shelton
UNC won the 2020 NCAA field hockey title. The postponed 2020 championship was played in spring 2021.
People: Karen Shelton
UNC won the 2022 NCAA field hockey title.
People: Karen Shelton
UNC won the 2025 NCAA women’s lacrosse championship.
People: Jenny Levy
These works give background on Carolina Sports, the wider history this event belongs to (1,020 works in all). Each links to the institution that holds or provides it.
A 2025 history of University of North Carolina baseball from its nineteenth-century beginnings to the program's rise as an ACC power. Chapters cover the early years on campus, the building of Boshamer Stadium, and the Mike Fox era. Self-published by the author, 288 pages.
Scott Whisnant's memoir of a life measured out in North Carolina basketball seasons. A former sportswriter, Whisnant writes for readers raised in ACC country who learned the fight song early and treated the conference tournament in Greensboro as the high point of the year, recalling family, friends and the personal milestones that fell alongside Tar Heel games. Subjects include humor and anecdotes as well as the team's history. Published by Bearface Publishing in 2025, 318 pages with photographs.
Adam Lucas's account of the 2021-2022 Carolina men's basketball season, Hubert Davis's first as head coach. Davis, appointed in April 2021, was the first Black head coach in the program's history, and the season ended at the NCAA tournament in New Orleans. Published 2022 by the UNC Department of Athletics, 155 pages with color illustrations. Topics include the Tar Heels, Davis, and college basketball in Chapel Hill in the twenty-first century.
Commemorative volume on Roy Williams's coaching career at the University of North Carolina, assembled largely from articles that first ran in the News & Observer, the Charlotte Observer and the Herald-Sun, with team and player statistics. Sections cover his return to Chapel Hill, the time he chose to stay away, his relationship with Dean Smith, the Tar Heels' first conference title in his tenure and the rivalry with Duke. Published 2021 by Pediment Publishing, 144 pages of color photographs and portraits, 23 x 29 cm.
Lee Pace's second illustrated volume on Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill, where the North Carolina Tar Heels play football. The dust jacket advertises forty-eight new pages, and the added title page lists original essays by Jill McCorkle, Will Blythe, Erskine Bowles, Tony Barnhart, Ron Green Jr., Ted Keith, Larry Keith, Debbie Moose and David Menconi. Pace Enterprises, 2020; 240 pages, large oblong format.
Anne R. Keene's history of the Cloudbusters, the baseball team of the Navy Pre-Flight School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill during the Second World War, on which Ted Williams played in 1943. The chapters move from a batboy's trunk of keepsakes through the pre-flight training program to the players' lives after the war, and Keene's own family is part of the story. Published by Sports Publishing in New York in 2018, 340 pages with sixteen pages of plates.
Art Chansky's 2016 account of Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and the years that changed Chapel Hill as a Southern college town. Scott was the first Black scholarship player in the Carolina basketball program. Topics include civil rights, racism in sports and the university's twentieth-century history.
Jay M. Smith and Mary Willingham's 2015 account of the academic fraud scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in which athletes were steered into no-show 'paper classes'. Chapters follow the fraud, the cover-up and the university's response, then place the case in the wider NCAA system. Subjects include cheating in education and college sports, corrupt practices, Chapel Hill.
Tim W. Jackson profiles Tar Heel athletes from the university at Chapel Hill who went on to professional careers, from the best-known names such as Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, Vince Carter, Lawrence Taylor and B. J. Surhoff to many less familiar Tar Heels across several sports. Published by Clerisy Press in 2014, 242 pages with illustrations.
Rob J. Anderson's account of the athletic and academic scandal at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published by Strategic Media Books of Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 2014. It concerns corrupt practices in college sports and the twenty-first century history of the Tar Heel basketball and football teams. 369 pages with 15 pages of plates, illustrations and portraits.
Dan Wiederer's account of a North Carolina Tar Heels basketball season that ended in a national championship, subtitled the highs, lows and behind the scenes hijinks of a national champion. It concerns the NCAA Basketball Tournament and university basketball in Chapel Hill. Published by iUniverse in New York in 2010, 390 pages.
Adam Lucas marks one hundred years of basketball at the University of North Carolina in this illustrated history, published by UNC Press in 2010 in association with the athletics department. Chapters follow the program from the game's arrival on campus and the 'White Phantoms' of the Southern Conference through the founding of the ACC, the 1957 season, Dean Smith's changes to the game and the title seasons of 1982, 1993, 2005 and 2009, closing with a century of statistics. 289 pages.
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Picture: The 1923-24 Carolina basketball team, Yackety Yack 1924. Public domain. Yackety Yack, 1924 (University of North Carolina yearbook); via Wikimedia Commons
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