UNC Basketball: Ranking the 10 greatest big men in Tar Heels history

Based on their time in Chapel Hill, here are the top 10 big men to ever represent the UNC basketball program during their college careers. 

The UNC basketball program has been known to have plenty of big men dominate the paint during their careers at North Carolina.

Chapel Hill has been considered “home” to some of the most talented big men to ever play Division I college basketball. It’s hard to find a Tar Heels squad that didn’t feature at least one outstanding big man, as the program has taken pride in creating problems down low for opposing teams.

Of course, it’s always fun to rank the top players at each position, given that everyone’s list will most likely be different in some sort of way. In this article, we are going to rank the top 10 big men to ever wear the Carolina Blue.

Before we get started, it’s important to answer the question of how we define the term “big man.” For the sake of this list, we narrowed the options down to true centers and power forwards only.

Our rankings also are strictly based on each player’s college career. What they accomplished with the UNC basketball program is all that matters!

Some honorable mentions include Rasheed Wallace, Brendan Haywood, Brice Johnson, and George Lynch.

As for current star big man Armando Bacot, we’re going to wait until his career wraps up to rightfully place him on this list!

Without further adieu, let’s get right into it!