1995–96 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team
Appearance
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ACC regular season co-champion | |
NCAA tournament, Round of 32 | |
Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Ranking | |
Coaches | No. 24 |
AP | No. 25 |
Record | 21–11 (10–6 ACC) |
Head coach |
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Assistant coaches |
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Home arena | Dean Smith Center |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 13 Georgia Tech | 13 | – | 3 | .813 | 24 | – | 12 | .667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 9 Wake Forest † | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 26 | – | 6 | .813 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 25 North Carolina | 10 | – | 6 | .625 | 21 | – | 11 | .656 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duke | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 18 | – | 13 | .581 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maryland | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 17 | – | 13 | .567 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clemson | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 18 | – | 11 | .621 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virginia | 6 | – | 10 | .375 | 12 | – | 15 | .444 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida State | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 13 | – | 14 | .481 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NC State | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 15 | – | 16 | .484 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 1996 ACC tournament winner Rankings from AP poll[1] |
The 1995–96 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented University of North Carolina. The head coach was Dean Smith. The team played its home games in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Roster
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Bill Guthridge, Phil Ford, Dave Hanners
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Schedule and results
Date time, TV |
Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site city, state | ||||||
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Regular season | |||||||||||
Nov 20, 1995* |
No. 20 | vs. Vanderbilt Maui Invitational Tournament |
W 71–63 | 1–0 |
Lahaina Civic Center Lahaina, Hawaii | ||||||
Nov 21, 1995* |
No. 20 | vs. Michigan State Maui Invitational Tournament |
W 92–70 | 2–0 |
Lahaina Civic Center Lahaina, Hawaii | ||||||
Nov 22, 1995* |
No. 20 | vs. No. 3 Villanova Maui Invitational Tournament |
L 75–77 | 2–1 |
Lahaina Civic Center Lahaina, Hawaii | ||||||
Nov 28, 1995* |
No. 17 | Richmond | W 83–76 | 3–1 |
Dean Smith Center Chapel Hill, North Carolina | ||||||
Dec 1, 1995* |
No. 17 | Tulane | W 89–71 | 4–1 |
Charlotte Coliseum Charlotte, North Carolina | ||||||
Dec 2, 1995* |
No. 17 | No. 16 Stanford | W 87–63 | 5–1 |
Charlotte Coliseum Charlotte, North Carolina | ||||||
Dec 7, 1995* |
No. 13 | Georgia | W 85–74 | 6–1 |
Dean Smith Center Chapel Hill, North Carolina | ||||||
ACC Tournament | |||||||||||
Mar 8, 1996* |
No. 20 | vs. Clemson Quarterfinals |
L 73–75 | 20–10 |
Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, North Carolina | ||||||
NCAA Tournament | |||||||||||
Mar 15, 1996* |
(6 E) No. 25 | vs. (11 E) New Orleans First round |
W 83–62 | 21–10 |
Richmond Coliseum Richmond, Virginia | ||||||
Mar 17, 1996* |
(6 E) No. 25 | vs. (3 E) No. 8 Texas Tech Second round |
L 73–92 | 21–11 |
Richmond Coliseum Richmond, Virginia | ||||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
E=East. All times are in EST. |
NCAA basketball tournament
- East
- North Carolina 83, New Orleans 62
- Texas Tech 92, North Carolina 73
Rankings
Team players drafted into the NBA
Year | Round | Pick | Player | NBA Club |
1996 | 2 | 37 | Jeff McInnis | Denver Nuggets |
1997 | 2 | 29 | Serge Zwikker | Houston Rockets |
1998 | 2 | 34 | Shammond Williams | Chicago Bulls |
References
- ^ sports-reference.com 1995-96 Atlantic Coast Conference Season Summary
- ^ U.N.C. basketball blue book. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2000.
- ^ "RotoWire Fantasy Football, Baseball, Basketball and More".
- ^ *ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Men's Game. Random House. 2009. pp. 1042–1043. ISBN 978-0-345-51392-2.
- ^ "1996 NBA Draft on databaseBasketball.com". Archived from the original on July 6, 2012. Retrieved April 30, 2012.