Frank McGuire Basketball News & Bio

Name: Frank McGuire Hometown: New York, NY High School: Xavier Born: November 8, 1914 Died: October 11, 1994 Notes: Men's Basketball Coach

Dean Smith, Charlie Scott and how they changed more than a game at UNC
In 1966, Chapel Hill was still a town rooted in the Old South, UNC was a rather conservative campus and Dean Smith was no more...
Wed Oct 26, 2016

So, where does Roy Williams really compete?
The North Carolina Tar Heels return to the NCAA Championship title game tonight against Villanova, where Roy Williams hopes to do at UNC what neither...
Mon Apr 4, 2016

Williams, Tar Heels have followed program's time-tested blueprint
Win or lose against Villanova in the NCAA championship game, UNC's basketball program has followed its time-tested path to the opportunity to win a sixth...
Mon Apr 4, 2016

Ranking every NCAA tournament championship team
8. North Carolina Tar Heels, 1957 (32-0): Famed for winning what's reputed to be the greatest NCAA title game of them all, North Carolina became...
Fri Apr 1, 2016

Bob Young recalls stopping Wilt, helping unbeaten Tar Heels win in 1957
Bob Young was among a group of transplanted New Yorkers recruited by coach Frank McGuire in the mid-1950s that formed the nucleus of the 1957...
Wed Mar 23, 2016

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