List of North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball head coaches

The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team plays at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

[1] After playing in the Southern Conference for 22 years, North Carolina left in 1953 to join the newly created ACC.

Three Tar Heel 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.

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.

[4] Eleven coaches have won the conference regular season by having the best overall regular season record with the Tar Heels: Norman Shepard, Monk McDonald, Harlan Sanborn, Bo Shepard, Bill Lange, Walter Skidmore, Ben Carnevale, McGuire, Smith, Matt Doherty, and Williams.

Head coach and former UNC player Hubert Davis is the first African-American to be Tar Heel head coach.
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Roy Williams (2003–2021) led the Tar Heels to NCAA Championships in 2005 , 2009 , and 2017 , the most by a head coach in school history.
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Nat Cartmell, a 1908 Olympic gold medalist in athletics, was the first basketball coach at UNC. He coached North Carolina from 1910 to 1914.
Dean Smith led the Tar Heels from 1961 to 1997 and won two national championships in 1982 and 1993. His 879 wins in Chapel Hill are the most by a coach at the school.
Frank McGuire led the 1956–57 Tar Heel team to a perfect season and their first NCAA national championship.