The Tar Heels of Chapel Hill, North Carolina are one of the most lauded men's basketball teams in NCAA History and Head Coach Roy Williams has his 2009/10 squad ready to get back to the big game.

The off season recruiting proved to be fruitful for the team as Coach Williams recruited Luke Cothron, a 6-8 power forward out of Flora MacDonald Academy, Ryan Harrow, a 5-11 point guard out of George Walton Comprehensive High School (out of Georgia) and 6-4 shooting guard Lorenzo Brown, who failed to qualify and will not suit up this season. Look for Coach Williams to try and take his team back to the "Big Dance", which will be harder this season with the loss of 12 seniors last year.

After finishing the season with a 20-17 (5-11 in the ACC) the defending National Champions received an invitation to the NIT where they advanced all the way to the Championship round where they fell to the University of Dayton 68-79. With the April 1st appearance of Deon Thompson, he set the all time NCAA career games played mark.

A SHORT HISTORY

The North Carolina Tar Heels Men's Basketball team is highly regarded as one of the most dominant teams in NCAA Basketball history. With five championships under their belt (1957, 82, 93, 2005 & 2009) and most recently retroactively named the 1924 National Champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation for going undefeated that season.

The school has produced a number of players who went on to professional careers in the NBA or elsewhere in the world. Some of those players include (but not limited to) Larry Brown, Charlie Scott, Vince Carter, Billy Cunningham, Walter Davis, Brendan Haywood, Tyler Hansbrough, Michael Jordan, George Karl, Mitch Kupchak, Bob McAdoo among many, many others.

The Tar Heels have won six championships (one Pre-tournament and five NCAA Tournament Championships), were NCAA Tournament Runner ups four times, made it into the Final Four eighteen times, the Elite Eight twenty-four times, the Sweet Sixteen twenty-eight times and have made an astounding forty-one times. They have been Conference Tournament Champions twenty-five times and regular season Conference Champions thirty-four times.

The Tar Heels play all home games at the Dean Smith Center.