Honored North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players

Forty-three former North Carolina men's basketball players are honored in the Dean E. Smith Center with banners representing their numbers hung from the rafters. Of the 43 honored jerseys, seven are retired and cannot be worn by a future North Carolina basketball player.

Criteria

To be honored, a player must be named ACC Player of the Year, MVP of a National Championship-winning team, or to first- or second-team All-America, or be a member of a gold medal-winning Olympic team.cite web
url=http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3287633
title=Tar Heel Basketball Glossary
publisher=University of North Carolina Athletic Department
date=October 6 2003
accessdate=2008-03-16] .

To have a jersey retired, a player must win one of the following six national player of the year awards: Associated Press, National Association of Basketball Coaches, "Sporting News", John R. Wooden Award, Oscar Robertson Trophy, and Naismith College Player of the Year.

Seven players (including Jack Cobb, whose jersey did not have a number) have had their jerseys retired. Since Tyler Hansbrough won all six of the required national player of the year awards in the 2007-08 season, his number 50 will become the eighth jersey to be retired after his senior season in 2008-09.cite press release
url=http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/041208aab.html
title=Hansbrough Wins Wooden Award, Sweeping Major Individual Honors
publisher=University of North Carolina Athletic Department
date=2008-04-12
accessdate=2008-04-12]

Honored players

*Players whose numbers are retired are shown with a blue background

References

External links

* cite web
url=http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/unc/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/pp89-146.pdf
work=Carolina Basketball Media Guide
title=SMITH CENTER JERSEYS
accessdate=2008-03-17
year=2006
publisher=University of North Carolina Athletic Department
pages=126-135