Carolina returns to Carmichael Auditorium--sorry, Carmichael Arena--this weekend for a Sunday date with Wofford. The current generation of Tar Heel fans wasn't alive the last time the program played a regular season game in the venue, so here's a quick history lesson on ten of the games that made Carmichael such a legendary place to watch a basketball game.
10. January 4, 1986: Carolina 90, NC State 79. Modern fans might be surprised to know that some of the most heated games in Carmichael history came against NC State, not Duke. So it was fitting to send the building out against the Wolfpack, a scheduling quirk made possible by a slight delay in Smith Center construction (the Tar Heels had already hosted one "last" game in Carmichael when they thought they were sending the building out with a win over Clemson in the 1985 home finale).