The 2004â€"05 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented University of North Carolina. The Head Coach was Roy Williams. The team played its home games at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Roster
Schedule
Tar Heel Times [1]
NCAA basketball tournament
- West
- North Carolina 96, Oakland 68
- North Carolina 92, Iowa State 65
- North Carolina 67, Villanova 66
- North Carolina 88, Wisconsin 82
- Final Four
- North Carolina 87, Michigan State 71
- North Carolina 75, Illinois 70
Awards and honors
- Sean May, NCAA Men's MOP Award
Team players drafted into the NBA
NCAA Academic Fraud Allegations
On August 1, 2011, the Raleigh News and Observer obtained reports on an academic transcript belonging to former star football player Marvin Austin.The reports maintain he started his college career in the summer of 2007 with a 400-level African studies class and received a B-plus. Austin’s SAT scores required remedial writing, which he took later. The 400-level class was also listed as being taught by Julius Nyang’oro. In September 2011, UNC announced Nyang’oro’s resignation as African studies department chairman and says it is reviewing “possible irregularities†with courses in the African studies department. The timeframe of the review is from the Austin class in the summer of 2007 through summer 2011. NCAA is notified of “new issues with student-athletes.†On July 8th of 2012, the Raleigh N&O reports that athletes made up a majority of enrollments in the more than 40 “no-show†classes. UNC says academic problems do not mean NCAA rules were violated.
Chancellor Carol Folt tells trustees that the university accepts responsibility and is “absolutely†accountable for years of bogus African studies courses that were significantly populated by athletes. She says the university is "going to learn from that painful history."On June 6, 2014, ESPN reports that Rashad McCants, a star from the 2005 NCAA men's basketball championship team, says he took many no-show classes, and they kept him eligible to play. He said the tutoring program steered him to the classes, tutors wrote papers for him and everyone in the athletic department knew about the "paper class system." Coach Roy Williams and teammates dispute much of what McCants says.On June 30, the NCAA announces the reopening of a previous investigation into UNC.
On October 22, 2014, Kenneth Wainstein's releases his investigation and finds that pressure from the athletes' tutoring program prompted the academic fraud, countering UNC's long held position the scandal did not have its roots in athletics. His report identifies nearly 190 no-show classes, and hundreds more bogus independent studies that date as far back as 1993. Roughly 3,100 students took the classes, nearly half of them athletes. Several tutoring staff knew the classes had no instructor, including Jan Boxill, who would later become faculty leader. Experts now say it's the worst academic scandal in the history of college athletics.The allegation time frame spanned the tenures of Roy Williams, Matt Doherty, Bill Guthridge, and even the legendary Dean Smith.
(Table above examines players who did not graduate or were African & Afro-American Studies Courses)
On Friday October 13, 2017 the NCAA released there final ruling resulting in no significant penalties for the North Carolina Men's Basketball program.
“While student-athletes likely benefited from the so-called ‘paper courses’ offered by North Carolina, the information available in the record did not establish that the courses were solely created, offered and maintained as an orchestrated effort to benefit student-athletes. The panel is troubled by the university’s shifting positions about whether academic fraud occurred on its campus and the credibility of the Cadwalader report, which it distanced itself from after initially supporting the findings. However, NCAA policy is clear. The NCAA defers to its member schools to determine whether academic fraud occurred and, ultimately, the panel is bound to making decisions within the rules set by the membership.â€
-Greg Sankey, NCAA Panel Chief Hearing Officer
While many were outraged by the decision, most agree that this ruling will be significant for the NCAA and their definition of the student athlete moving forward.
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