Honored North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players

Retired and honored jerseys hanging from the rafters at Dean E. Smith Center

Forty-seven 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 49 honored jerseys, eight are retired and cannot be worn by a future North Carolina basketball player.

Criteria

Tyler Hansbrough walking back to the players' tunnel after his jersey retirement ceremony on February 10, 2010.

To be honored, a player must be: the Most Valuable Player of a National Championship-winning team, an ACC Player of the Year, a first- or second-team All-America, an NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player or a member of a gold medal-winning Olympic team. The most recently honored players are point guard Ty Lawson and shooting guard Wayne Ellington, both of whom were officially recognized before the Tar Heels' game against North Carolina State on February 13, 2010. Lawson qualified by being named the 2009 ACC Player of the Year, as well as being named a second-team All-American in the same season by the AP, NABC and Sporting News. Ellington qualified by being named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2009 NCAA Tournament. The criterion was added in the Summer of 2009 and also made Donald Williams, MOP of the 1993 tournament, eligible to be honored in the rafters.

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 or Naismith College Player of the Year.

Eight players (including Jack Cobb, whose jersey did not have a number) have had their jerseys retired. The most recent player to have his number retired is Tyler Hansbrough, whose number 50 became the program's seventh number and eighth jersey retired during halftime of the Tar Heels' matchup against Duke on February 10, 2010. He qualified for the honor by winning all six of the required national player of the year awards in the 2007–08 season.

Tyler Zeller and Harrison Barnes became the most recent players to qualify to have their jerseys honored after the 2011–12 season. Zeller qualified by winning the 2012 ACC Player of the Year award and being named second team All-American. and Barnes qualified by also being named second team All-American.

Honored players

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

No.	Name	Years	Criteria met
NC	Cartwright Carmichael	1921-24	First-team All-America
NC	Jack Cobb	1923-26	National Player of the Year
20	George Glamack	1938-41	National Player of the Year, First-team All-America
8	Jim Jordan	1944-46	Second-team All-America
13	Hook Dillon	1945-48	First-team All-America
10	Lennie Rosenbluth	1954-57	National Player of the Year, First-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year
35	Pete Brennan	1955-58	First-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year
40	Tommy Kearns	1955-58	Second-team All-America
12	Lee Shaffer	1957-60	First-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year
22	York Larese	1958-61	Second-team All-America
35	Doug Moe	1958-61	First-team All-America
11	Larry Brown	1960-63	Olympic gold medal
32	Billy Cunningham	1962-65	First-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year
22	Bob Lewis	1964-67	First-team All-America
44	Larry Miller	1965-68	First-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year
33	Charlie Scott	1967-70	Olympic gold medal, First-team All-America
31	Bill Chamberlain	1969-72	Second-team All-America
44	Dennis Wuycik	1969-72	First-team All-America
35	Bob McAdoo	1971-72	First-team All-America
34	Bobby Jones	1971-74	First-team All-America
21	Mitch Kupchak	1972-76	First-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year, Olympic gold medal
24	Walter Davis	1973-77	Olympic gold medal
45	Tommy LaGarde	1973-77	Olympic gold medal, Second-team All-America
12	Phil Ford	1974-78	National Player of the Year, First-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year, Olympic gold medal
31	Mike O'Koren	1976-80	First-team All-America
30	Al Wood	1977-81	First-team All-America
52	James Worthy	1979-82	National Player of the Year, First Team All-America, MVP of NCAA champions, NCAA Tournament MOP
41	Sam Perkins	1980-84	Olympic gold medal, First-team All-America
23	Michael Jordan	1981-84	National Player of the Year, First Team All-America, ACC Player of the Year, Olympic gold medal
42	Brad Daugherty	1982-86	First-team All-America
30	Kenny Smith	1983-87	First-team All-America
34	J.R. Reid	1986-89	First-team All-America
34	George Lynch	1989-93	MVP of NCAA Champions
00	Eric Montross	1990-94	Second-team All-America
21	Donald Williams	1991-95	NCAA Tournament MOP
42	Jerry Stackhouse	1993-95	First-team All-America
30	Rasheed Wallace	1993-95	Second-team All-America
15	Vince Carter	1995-98	Second-team All-America, Olympic gold medal
33	Antawn Jamison	1995-98	National Player of the Year, First Team All-America, ACC Player of the Year
00	Brendan Haywood	1997–2001	Second-team All-America
40	Joseph Forte	1999–2001	First-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year
2	Raymond Felton	2002-05	MVP of NCAA Champions
42	Sean May	2002-05	First-team All-America, MVP of NCAA Champions, NCAA Tournament MOP
32	Rashad McCants	2002-05	Second-team All-America
50	Tyler Hansbrough	2005-09	National Player of the Year, First Team All-America, ACC Player of the Year, MVP of NCAA Champions
5	Ty Lawson	2006-09	Second-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year, MVP of NCAA Champions
22	Wayne Ellington	2006-09	NCAA Tournament MOP
44	Tyler Zeller	2008-12	Second-team All-America, ACC Player of the Year
40	Harrison Barnes	2010-12	Second-team All-America

External links

• "SMITH CENTER JERSEYS". Carolina Basketball Media Guide. University of North Carolina Athletic Department. 2009. pp. 126–135. Retrieved 2009-10-08. 
• Article on retired jerseys