Question: Larry Hunter was college basketball coach of what North Carolina university?
Context: James Newton Ashmore (November 11, 1878 – April 27, 1944) was an American football, basketball and baseball coach.  He served as the head football coach at the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science—now known as Washington State University—(1903), Millikin University (1904–1906, 1909–1913), Western Maryland College—now known as McDaniel College–(1907–1908), and DePauw University (1922–1924), compiling a career college football record of 61–46–9.  Ashmore was also the head basketball coach at Washington Agricultural (1904–1905), Millikin (1905–1907, 1909–1914), the University of Colorado at Boulder (1914–1917), the University of Iowa (1920–1922), DePauw (1923–1924) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1926–1931), tallying a career college basketball mark of 178–117.  In addition, he was the head baseball coach at Washington Agricultural (1904), Millikin (1905–1906, 1910–1914, 1940), Colorado, (1915–1917), Iowa (1920–1922), DePauw (1923–1924) and North Carolina (1927–1931). Lewis Preston (born (1970--) 31, 1970 ) is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach of the Kennesaw State University Owls men's basketball team in Kennesaw, Georgia.  He previously served as an assistant men's basketball coach at Pennsylvania State University, Coastal Carolina University, the University of Notre Dame, and under Billy Donovan at the University of Florida. Dean Edwards Smith (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015) was an American men's college basketball head coach.  Called a "coaching legend" by the Basketball Hall of Fame, he coached for 36 years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Smith coached from 1961 to 1997 and retired with 879 victories, which was the NCAA Division I men's basketball record at that time.  Smith had the 9th highest winning percentage of any men's college basketball coach (77.6%).  During his tenure as head coach, North Carolina won two national championships and appeared in 11 Final Fours. Smith played college basketball at the University of Kansas, where he won a national championship in 1952 playing for Hall of fame coach Phog Allen. Western Carolina University (WCU) is a coeducational public university located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States.  The university is a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina system. Michael Perry (born November 10, 1958) is an American college basketball coach and a current men's basketball assistant coach at East Carolina University.  Prior to joining the Pirates program, he served as the head men's basketball coach at Georgia State University from 2003 through 2007, and also held assistant coaching positions at Georgia State, Richmond and Virginia Union University.  Perry also served as acting head coach of ECU for the second half of the 2016-17 season when head coach Jeff Lebo underwent hip surgery and missed the rest of the season. Walter Dennis Skidmore (November 19, 1903 – April 13, 1993) was an American basketball coach.  he was best known for being the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team from 1935 through 1939.  Skidmore had a record of 65–25 with the Tar Heels and led his team to win the Southern Conference Tournament in 1936 and Southern Conference regular season championship in 1938.  In his last year of coaching, Skidmore coached George Glamack who went on to become a star player at North Carolina.  Skidmore took over coaching after Bo Shepard left as head coach due to health problems.  Skidmore was a native of Harlan County, Kentucky, and the son of a coal miner.  He attended Centre College in Kentucky, graduating in 1926.  Before becoming the head basketball coach at North Carolina, Skidmore had coached the North Carolina junior varsity and Charlotte High School teams.  He retired from coaching in 1939 and moved to Letcher County, Kentucky.  From 1955 to 1970, Skidmore operated the Tar Heel Motel in Clinton, North Carolina.  In April 1993, Skidmore died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at age 89. Mack McCarthy is the former head college basketball coach for East Carolina University.  On Saturday 3/6/10 athletic director Terry Holland announced that McCarthy will complete the season as head coach and then move to a fundraising role with East Carolina University.  He served as Head Coach at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga from 1985–1997, leading the Mocs to the 1997 "Sweet Sixteen" in the NCAA Tournament Over his 12-year tenure, he took the Mocs to seven postseason appearances (five to the NCAA Tournament), won/shared eight Southern Conference regular season titles and won the SoCon Tournament title five times.  His overall record at UTC was 243–122. Larry Hunter (born (1949--) 8, 1949 ) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach of the Western Carolina University men's basketball team.  He had been head coach of the Ohio Bobcats men's basketball team from 1989 to 2001, compiling a winning record of 58 percent (204–148).  His teams made one NCAA tournament appearance in 1994, an NIT appearance in 1995, and won the prestigious pre-season NIT in 1994.  Despite his solid record, and being second on Ohio University's all-time wins list with only two losing seasons, he was fired in 2001.  Hunter also played at Ohio University from 1970 to 1971. Eddie Payne (born 1951) is an American college basketball coach and current head men's basketball coach at the University of South Carolina Upstate.  Payne led the USC Upstate Spartans through their first season of Division I competition in 2007–2008.  In 2012, he was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year.  Prior to arriving at USC Upstate, Payne was previously a Div I head coach at Oregon State University and East Carolina University.  Payne's son, Luke, is one of his assistant coaches at USC Upstate. Norman Lesley Sloan, Jr. (June 25, 1926 – December 9, 2003), nicknamed "Stormin' Norman," was an American college basketball player and coach.  Sloan was a native of Indiana and played college basketball and football at North Carolina State University.  He began a long career as a basketball coach months after graduating from college in 1951, and he was the men's basketball head coach at Presbyterian College, The Citadel, North Carolina State University, and two stints as at the University of Florida.  Over a career that spanned thirty-eight seasons, Sloan was named conference coach of the year five times and won the 1974 national championship at North Carolina State, his alma mater.
Answer: Western Carolina University