1910–11 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team

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The 1910–11 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team (variously "North Carolina", "Carolina" or "Tar Heels") was the first varsity college basketball team to represent the University of North Carolina.[N 1] The school created a committee to determine if the school should go forward with forming a team as there was increasing pressure from students, the student run newspaper The Tar Heel, in-state schools that fielded teams who wanted to form a state league, and the University of Tennessee inquired about scheduling a game in February 1911. Equipment was purchased and installed at Bynum Gymnasium after a period of uncertainty of where the team would play its home games. Then track-and-field head coach Nathaniel Cartmell – who had little experience with basketball – was chosen to coach as there were no funds to be allocated for hiring another coach. After choosing players for the first team, Cartmell finalized the schedule in January, which was limited as many other programs had already created their schedules before the Tar Heels made their team.

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1910–11 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball
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ConferenceIndependent
Record7–4
Head coach
CaptainMarvin Ritch
Home arenaBynum Gymnasium
Seasons
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1910–11 NCAA men's basketball independents standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
Arizona 30  1.000
Detroit Mercy 60  1.000
North Dakota State 140  1.000
Seton Hall 40  1.000
Virginia Tech 111  .917
Washington 111  .917
Navy 101  .909
Vanderbilt 82  .800
Army 93  .750
Notre Dame 73  .700
Penn State 94  .692
Ohio State 63  .667
Virginia 105  .667
Georgetown 137  .650
North Carolina 74  .636
Trinity 43  .571
Colgate 97  .563
Wake Forest 87  .533
Nigara 77  .500
South Carolina 11  .500
Bucknell 56  .455
Tennessee 79  .438
Auburn 35  .375
Cincinnati 36  .333
Connecticut 12  .333
Georgia 25  .286
Indiana State 28  .200
Rankings from AP Poll

North Carolina opened their season with a victory against Virginia Christian 42–21 in front of an estimated 200 spectators. The squad won their next four games, winning by double digits against two opponents and by three or less against the other two. The team traveled to Wake Forest where they lost their first game after the Baptists handily outscored the Tar Heels in the second half. The team rebounded with a win against University of Tennessee before they dropped two closely contested games against Virginia and Virginia Christian. Carolina defeated Woodberry Forest easily before they played their final game, a rematch, against Virginia. Virginia won the game after taking a lead into halftime and only being outscored by two points in the second half, despite one player from each team being ejected following an altercation where a North Carolina player bit a Virginia player on the shoulder. The team was viewed as a success and thought to have played their hardest in each game this led The Tar Heel to write that "... basketball has come to stay."