The school, formerly The Women's College of The University of North Carolina, allowed male students beginning 1965-66 and started a men's basketball program the following year.

[4] Following the 1994-95 season, Dement left to take over the men's basketball program at Southern Methodist University (SMU) and was replaced in Greensboro by Randy Peele.

[6] In his final year in Greensboro, McCaffery brought the Spartans to the brink of the NCAA Tournament before a SoCon Championship game loss to Chattanooga.

In his first season back at UNCG, Mike Dement led a young Spartan squad to a 12–19 mark.

In 2006–07, Dement guided the Spartans to a 16–14 mark, including a second-place finish in the Southern Conference's Northern Division.

Hines, only a junior, earned Southern Conference Player of the Year and Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention status – both accomplishments were firsts for the UNCG program.

The Spartans were considered by many to be the most dangerous team in that year's SoCon Tournament, but were upended in the final seconds by Furman in the quarterfinal round.

[7] Following the mid-season resignation of Mike Dement in December 2011, Wes Miller was given the reins of the program on an interim basis.

Guard Francis Alonso became UNCG's all-time leader in made 3-pointers [11] and was a two-time first-team All-SoCon selection (2018, 2019).

The Spartans also boasted four consecutive Southern Conference Defensive Players of the Year in forward James L. Dickey III (2018) and guard Isaiah Miller (2019, 2020, 2021).

Miller finished his collegiate career at UNCG ranked fourth in scoring average at 14.9 points per game.

He was later named the Bob Waters SoCon Male Athlete of the Year, the first Spartan to ever win the award.

[14] In 1995–96, Hartzell led the Spartans to their first NCAA men's basketball tournament appearance after winning the 1996 Big South Championship.

During that memorable run, Hartzell ran his streak of consecutive games with a three-point field goal to 42 straight.

He helped UNCG win its first-ever postseason game vs. Houston Baptist in the Greensboro Coliseum in 2016, and finished his college career as a two-time National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District first team honoree as well as being voted first team All-SoCon Coaches and Media in 2017-18 and 2018-19.

[17] He became only the sixth player to score 2,000 points, grab 1,000 rebounds and block 300 shots in his college career, joining the ranks of David Robinson, Alonzo Mourning, Tim Duncan, Pervis Ellison and Derrick Coleman.