page_title: List of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball head coaches
section_title: Statistics
hierarchical_section_title: List of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball head coaches / Statistics
caption_attribution_description: English: Nathaniel Cartmell at the 1907 ICAA
context_page_description: The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team plays at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletics Association in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Tar Heels originally did not play within any athletic conference, but joined the Southern Conference in 1921 when it was first established. After playing in the Southern Conference for 22 years, North Carolina left in 1953 to join the newly created ACC. The Tar Heels play their home games in the Dean E. Smith Center, named after the 15th head coach Dean Smith.
  The team has had 18 head coaches in its history and has played two seasons without one. The program has played 2,947 games in 106 seasons from the 1910–11 to the 2015–16 season. During those seasons, three coaches have led the team to an NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship: Frank McGuire in 1957; Smith in 1982 and 1993; and Roy Williams in 2005, 2009, and 2017. Smith, in 1971, led North Carolina to its only National Invitation Tournament championship. North Carolina also received a retroactive national championship for the 1923–24 team coached by Norman Shepard, which was given by the Helms Athletic Foundation.
caption: Former coach Nat Cartmell, an Olympic athlete, was the first men's basketball coach for North Carolina from 1910–1914.
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