Bo Shepard George Edward " Bo " Shepard ( September 18 , 1904 – May 8 , 1983 ) was best known for being the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels men ' s basketball team from 1931 through 1935 . Early life and family . He was the seventh child of Alexander Hurlbutt Shepard and Mary Augusta Westbrook . Bo Shepard attended New Hanover High School in Wilmington , North Carolina . Bo ' s family had various ties to athletics at North Carolina . His brother , Norman Shepard , became the head coach for North Carolina before Bo , and two of his other brothers , Caryle Shepard and Alex Shepard , played basketball for North Carolina . Bo and Norman Shepard are the only pair of sibling to have ever coached the North Carolina men ' s basketball team . Coaching North Carolina Men ' s Basketball . In 1929 , Bo Shepard joined the University of North Carolina ' s athletic faculty as an assistant graduate manager of athletics . In 1932 , James Ashmore departed as the head coach of the North Carolina men ' s basketball team , and Bo Shepard took over as the new head coach . In his first regular season , Shepard ' s North Carolina team was fairly successful winning 13 of 17 games and 6 out of 9 games in conference . In the 1933 Southern Conference Tournament , Shepard ' s North Carolina team managed to make it past Tennessee in the first round and beat the Kentucky in the second round , which was coached by Adolph Rupp in his second season . North Carolina beat Auburn to go to the finals of the Southern Conference championship where they lost a close game 24 – 26 to Georgia . At the end of the 1932 – 33 season , 13 schools left the Southern Conference to create the Southeastern Conference , which greatly changed the playing schedule and the usual opponents for North Carolina . Going into the 1933 – 34 season , Shepard managed to recruit Ivan " Jack " Glace , who would go on to be the first of several prize recruits for Shepard . Glace was originally not much of a basketball player . " [ Glace ] was so awkward that he could hardly walk without tripping over his feet , but he wanted to play so badly he didn ' t know what to do , " said Shepard . Shepard worked with Glace throughout his college years and eventually he would become all - conference in his senior year , which Shepard considered one of his major accomplishment . During the 1933 – 34 season , the Tar Heels went 11 – 4 in the regular season . In the 1934 Southern Conference Tournament , the Tar Heels won their first game against Virginia Tech , but lost in double overtime to South Carolina in the next round . The 1934 – 35 season saw an increase in the North Carolina Tar Heels as they managed to go 17 – 3 and tied for second with the best regular season record . This squad was helped out by a pair of siblings , Dave and Jim McCrachren that both played on the team . In the 1935 Southern Conference Tournament , the Tar Heels managed to beat Virginia in the first round but lost the Duke in the second round . Shepard ' s last season , 1935 – 36 , would be his best . The Tar Heels only lost two games during the regular season and won the regular season championship for the first time in nine years . In the 1936 Southern Conference Championship , the Tar Heels beat South Carolina , NC State , and Washington and Lee to win its fifth Southern Conference Championship . Shepard has stated that in general his teams focused disproportionally on defense . Shepard stated that his teams " were never blown out badly . If you scored in the high 30s , you had a real good night in those days . Our goal was to keep the other team from scoring 20 points . " Though only winning the regular season and conference title once , Bo Shepard ' s was greatly successful as a basketball coach finishing 69 – 16 overall and with the third best overall winning percentage of any North Carolina men ' s basketball coach with a winning percentage of . 812 . After coaching . Even though he was successful at coaching at UNC , Bo Shepard had to step down as head coach due to health problems , and let Walter Skidmore take over as head coach . Even though he was no longer the head coach of the Tar Heels , Shepard would continue to work for the University of North Carolina until 1970 . Bo Shepard went on to be president and vice president of the American Association of Health , Physical Education and Recreation . He also served as president of the College of Physical Education Association and Phi Delta Kappa , a professional education fraternity . Bo Shepard also wrote the textbook " Interscholastic Athletics " . Bo Shepard died on May 8 , 1983 .