| North Carolina Tar Heels The ACC schedule works in three year cycles. Each team is assigned two permanent partners and nine rotating partners. The North Carolina Tar Heels’ two permanent partners are the North Carolina State Wolf Pack and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Teams play their permanent partners in a home-and-away series each year. The rotating partners are split into three groups: three teams who are played in a home-and-away series, three teams who are played at home, and three teams who are played on the road. The rotating partner groups are rotated every three years. This creates an intra-conference schedule of 16 games against 11 Atlantic Coast Conference teams. The University of North Carolina’s men’s basketball program is one of the most dominant basketball programs in NCAA history. Since the NCAA began a national year-end basketball tournament 1949 the North Carolina Tar Heels have appeared 40 times. They have appeared in the Final Four 17 seasons, including 2008. The team has been to the National Championship game 8 times and has been NCAA Champions 4 times, most recently in 2005. From the start of the North Carolina basketball program in 1910-11 through the 2007-08 season, the Tar Heels have an overall record of 1,950-699 for a .736 winning percentage. The Tar Heels should the NCAA men’s basketball record for most consecutive 20-win seasons, winning 20 or more games every year between the 1970-71 seasons through 2000-2001. The rivalry between the Tar Heels and the nearby Duke University Blue Devils is one of the most famous and intense in any sport at any level. Home court for the Tar Heels is the Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center, a multi-purpose arena popularly known as the Dean Dome, on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, NC. Head coach of the Tar Heels is Roy Allen. After 15 seasons with an overall winning percentage of .805 that earned him the title of winningest coach to have never won the national title, Allen joined the Tar Heels for the 2003-04 season. He won the NCAA Tournament the next year, defeating the Big 10 champion University of Illinois Fighting Illini. Awesomeseating.com offers cheap tickets and luxury tickets for NCAA Basketball. We have NCAA Tournament Tickets as soon as the postseason line-up finalizes. Buy your cheap tickets to North Carolina Tar Heels basketball from your trusted ticket broker right now. |