Basketball Museum Visit

Basketball Museum Visit

By Lanier Gray and Jose Valle

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Playing for the University of North Carolina is likely to lead to a career in the NBA. Timothy Daye, a Chuck Stone Scholar, snaps a shot of a board listing Carolina’s first round NBA draft picks over the years.

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Chuck Stone Scholar Tori Mirian observes the display highlighting the many years of ACC regular season championships. Ranging from a piece of a net to a former jersey, the display showcases many keepsakes gathered since the first victory in 1956.

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Chuck Stone Scholars, Ellen Pham and Helen Hamilton, pose inside The Carolina Basketball Museum. The museum was created in 2008 in order to honor the history of the Carolina Basketball program.

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Chuck Stone Scholar, Ellen Pham, examines the five national championship rings, earned in the years of 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005 and 2009.