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1980–81 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team

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Coaches
  
No. 6

1980–81 record
  
29–8 (10–4 ACC)

Assistant coach
  
Bill Guthridge

AP
  
No. 6

Head coach
  
Dean Smith

Conference
  
Atlantic Coast Conference

The 1980–81 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented University of North Carolina. Led by senior guard-forward Al Wood, it won the 1981 ACC Tournament and reached the championship of the NCAA Tournament, falling to the University of Indiana 62-50. The Head Coach was Dean Smith. The team played its home games at Carmichael Auditorium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Contents

NCAA basketball tournament

  • West
  • North Carolina 74, Pittsburgh 57
  • North Carolina 61, Utah 56
  • North Carolina 82, Kansas State 68
  • Final Four
  • North Carolina 78, Virginia 65
  • Indiana 63, North Carolina 50

    • Awards and honors

  • Sam Perkins, ACC Rookie of the Year

    • References

    1980–81 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team Wikipedia
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