For the first time since Jan. 4, 1986, the North Carolina men's basketball team will play a regular-season game at Carmichael Arena when it faces Wofford on Sunday.
Roy Williams was in his eighth season as an assistant coach for Dean Smith the last time the Tar Heels played a regular-season game at the facility, then known as Carmichael Auditorium. Even now, Williams remembers Carmichael fondly.
"It was just a great place to coach," Williams told reporters on Friday. "The enthusiasm, the noise; it was a tremendous home court advantage, which is what I liked.