CHAPEL HILL—Former National College Basketball Player of the Year and 16-year NBA veteran Antawn Jamison is one of nine new members of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame. Executive Director Don Fish announced the Class of 2016 today.
Jamison played forward at the University of North Carolina from 1995-98, winning National Player of the Year honors in 1998 from the Associated Press, the United States Basketball Writers Association, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, The Sporting News and the Naismith and Wooden Awards.
Jamison, who grew up in Charlotte and attended Providence High School, became the first player in Atlantic Coast Conference history to earn first-team All-ACC honors as a freshman, sophomore and junior.