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Meet the 2026 Legends

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Antawn Jamison

  • Consensus 1998 National Player of the Year at North Carolina, sweeping the Wooden and Naismith Awards while earning ACC Player of the Year honors and leading UNC to back-to-back Final Fours (1997, 1998)

  • His No. 33 jersey is retired in the rafters of the Dean E. Smith Center, one of only eight retired numbers in Tar Heel history

  • Selected No. 4 overall in the 1998 NBA Draft, traded on draft night to Golden State for Vince Carter

  • Two-time NBA All-Star (2005, 2008) and the 2004 NBA Sixth Man of the Year

  • Scored 20,042 points over 16 NBA seasons, one of fewer than 50 players in league history to reach 20,000

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Jerry Stackhouse

  • Consensus First Team All-American and Sports Illustrated National Player of the Year in 1995, leading North Carolina to the Final Four; his No. 42 jersey hangs honored in the Smith Center rafters

  • Selected No. 3 overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1995 NBA Draft

  • Two-time NBA All-Star (2000, 2001) who led the NBA in total points in 2000-01 while averaging a career-high 29.8 points per game

  • Scored more than 16,000 points across an 18-year NBA career

  • Named G League Coach of the Year after guiding Raptors 905 to the 2017 championship; served as head coach at Vanderbilt (2019-24)

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Ricky Proehl

  • Played 17 NFL seasons and 244 games at wide receiver, catching 669 passes for 8,878 yards and 54 touchdowns for the Cardinals, Seahawks, Bears, Rams, Panthers, and Colts

  • Played in 4 Super Bowls, winning two (Rams, Super Bowl XXXIV; Colts, Super Bowl XLI), and caught game-tying fourth-quarter touchdowns in both Super Bowl XXXVI and Super Bowl XXXVIII

  • Caught the game-winning touchdown in the 1999 NFC Championship Game to send the Rams to their Super Bowl XXXIV title

  • Left Wake Forest as the program's all-time leader in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns; First Team All-ACC in 1989 and a Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame inductee

  • Spent four seasons as the Carolina Panthers' wide receivers coach, including the Super Bowl 50 team, and was named head coach of the UFL's St. Louis Battlehawks for the 2026 season

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Tubby Smith

  • Won the 1998 NCAA National Championship in his first season at Kentucky and was named Naismith National Coach of the Year

  • Won 642 career games over 31 seasons as a Division I head coach at Tulsa, Georgia, Kentucky, Minnesota, Texas Tech, Memphis, and his alma mater High Point

  • First coach in history to lead five different programs to the NCAA Tournament

  • Went 263-83 in 10 seasons at Kentucky with five SEC regular season and five SEC Tournament titles; swept national Coach of the Year honors (AP, Naismith, NABC) in 2003

  • Honored with a retired jersey at Rupp Arena in 2021 and inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame (Class of 2026)

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George Lynch

  • Co-captain and defensive anchor of North Carolina's 1993 NCAA National Championship team; named First Team All-ACC and to the All-Final Four team, with his No. 34 jersey honored in the Smith Center rafters

  • Finished his UNC career among the program's all-time leaders in rebounds and steals

  • Selected No. 12 overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1993 NBA Draft

  • Played 12 NBA seasons and started for the Philadelphia 76ers team that reached the 2001 NBA Finals

  • Served as head coach at Clark Atlanta University, co-founded HBCU Heroes, and worked as a Charlotte Hornets television analyst

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Chris Corchiani

  • First player in NCAA Division I history to record 1,000 career assists; his 1,038 still rank among the top five all time, and only five players have ever reached the mark

  • Four-year starting point guard at NC State, teaming with Rodney Monroe in the famed "Fire and Ice" backcourt

  • Three-time All-ACC selection (1989, 1990, 1991)

  • Selected 36th overall by Orlando in the 1991 NBA Draft; played for the Magic, Celtics, and Bullets

  • Won league titles overseas during a long professional career in Italy, Turkey, Spain, and Germany, including the 1996 German Bundesliga championship

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Tom Gugliotta

  • Starred at NC State, averaging 22.5 points and nearly 10 rebounds as a senior en route to First Team All-ACC and All-America honors in 1992; his No. 24 jersey is honored by the Wolfpack

  • Selected No. 6 overall by the Washington Bullets in the 1992 NBA Draft and named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team

  • 1997 NBA All-Star with the Minnesota Timberwolves, where he averaged more than 20 points per game in 1996-97

  • Played 13 NBA seasons and 763 games for seven franchises with career averages of 13.0 points and 7.3 rebounds

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Ed Pinckney

  • Named Final Four Most Outstanding Player after leading No. 8 seed Villanova past Georgetown, 66-64, for the 1985 national championship, one of the greatest upsets in NCAA Tournament history

  • Two-time First Team All-Big East selection who averaged 14.5 points and 8.6 rebounds on 60.4% shooting at Villanova; inducted into the Villanova Hall of Fame in 2010

  • Selected No. 10 overall by the Phoenix Suns in the 1985 NBA Draft

  • Played 12 NBA seasons and 793 games for seven franchises, including the Suns, Celtics, Heat, and 76ers

  • Spent four seasons as a Villanova assistant under Jay Wright, then more than a decade as an NBA assistant with the Timberwolves, Bulls, and Nuggets

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Buzz Peterson

  • Named 1981 North Carolina high school Player of the Year over Michael Jordan; became Jordan's college roommate at UNC and won the 1982 national championship as a Tar Heel freshman

  • Led Appalachian State to the 2000 Southern Conference Tournament title and NCAA Tournament, earning SoCon Coach of the Year honors

  • Won the 2001 NIT championship in his lone season at Tulsa (26-11), then served as head coach at Tennessee, Coastal Carolina, and UNC Wilmington

  • Longtime Charlotte Hornets executive under Michael Jordan's ownership, rising to Assistant General Manager and Senior Vice President of Basketball Operations

  • McDonald's and Parade All-American as a prep star at Asheville High School

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Michael Floyd

  • All-American wide receiver at Notre Dame who finished as the school's all-time leader in receptions (271), receiving yards (3,686), and receiving touchdowns (37)

  • Caught 100 passes as a senior in 2011 and was named MVP of the 2010 Sun Bowl

  • Selected No. 13 overall by the Arizona Cardinals in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft

  • Posted a 1,041-yard receiving season for Arizona in 2013 and totaled 288 catches for 3,558 yards and 17 touchdowns over seven NFL seasons

  • Won a Super Bowl ring with the New England Patriots' Super Bowl LI championship team

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Bobby Cremins

  • Won 579 career games over 31 seasons as a Division I head coach at Appalachian State, Georgia Tech, and the College of Charleston

  • Led Georgia Tech to the 1990 Final Four behind the famed "Lethal Weapon 3" trio and was named 1990 Naismith National Coach of the Year

  • Won three ACC Tournament championships at Georgia Tech (1985, 1990, 1993) and was a three-time ACC Coach of the Year; the Yellow Jackets' home floor is named "Cremins Court" in his honor

  • Coached roughly 25 future NBA players, including Mark Price, John Salley, Kenny Anderson, Stephon Marbury, and Dennis Scott

  • As a player, captained and ran the point for South Carolina's 1969-70 team that went 25-3 and won the ACC regular season title under Frank McGuire

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Tyler Lewis

  • 2012 McDonald's All-American point guard at Oak Hill Academy and Virginia Gatorade Player of the Year

  • Set school records at Forsyth Country Day with 1,927 career points and 685 assists

  • Played two seasons at NC State, leading the team in assists as a sophomore and setting a school single-season record with a 3.55 assist-to-turnover ratio while helping the Wolfpack to the 2014 NCAA Tournament

  • Finished his career at Butler, helping lead the Bulldogs to the 2017 Sweet 16 while ranking second in the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio as a senior

  • Moved into college coaching with staff roles at Furman, East Carolina, and Elon

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Asher Wojciechowski

  • Star pitcher at The Citadel and the 2010 Southern Conference Pitcher of the Year

  • Pitched for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team in 2009

  • Selected 41st overall by Toronto in the supplemental first round of the 2010 MLB Draft, one of the highest selections in Citadel baseball history

  • Pitched parts of six MLB seasons (2015-2021) for the Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reds, Baltimore Orioles, and New York Yankees

  • Continued his career in international baseball, serving as pitching coach for the Croatian national team

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Cliff Ellis

  • Retired in 2023 after a 49-year head coaching career with 831 Division I victories, the most of any active coach at the time and among the top 10 in Division I history

  • The only coach ever to win both an ACC and an SEC regular season championship: Clemson's first-ever ACC title in 1990 and Auburn's outright SEC title in 1999

  • Led 1998-99 Auburn to a 29-4 record and the No. 1 national ranking, earning National Coach of the Year honors from six organizations including the Associated Press

  • Won conference championships at four different schools in four different leagues: South Alabama (Sun Belt), Clemson (ACC), Auburn (SEC), and Coastal Carolina (Big South)

  • Made 10 NCAA Tournament appearances with three Sweet 16 runs (Clemson 1990; Auburn 1999, 2003)

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Ted Valentine

  • One of the most recognizable referees in college basketball history, officiating Division I basketball for roughly four decades

  • Worked 10 Final Fours and four NCAA National Championship games

  • Officiated in 28 NCAA Tournaments, including 26 consecutive appearances

  • Named the 2005 Naismith College Official of the Year

  • Longtime lead official in the ACC and Big Ten, working Big Ten games since 1986

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Gar Forman

  • General Manager of the Chicago Bulls from 2009 to 2020, capping a 22-year run with the franchise that began as a scout in 1998

  • Named 2010-11 NBA Executive of the Year after building a Bulls roster that posted a league-best 62-20 record and reached the Eastern Conference Finals

  • Front office landed cornerstone draft picks including Derrick Rose (No. 1 overall, 2011 NBA MVP), Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson, and Jimmy Butler

  • Spent more than a decade in college coaching before the NBA, including assistant and recruiting coordinator roles at New Mexico State and Iowa State

  • Joined the New Orleans Pelicans' front office in 2020 as a special advisor and scout

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Jim Wooldridge

  • Won 381 games over 25 seasons as a college head coach at Central Missouri State, Southwest Texas State, Louisiana Tech, Kansas State, and UC Riverside

  • Went 130-49 in six seasons at Central Missouri State with three consecutive NCAA Division II Tournament appearances (1989-91)

  • Guided Southwest Texas State (now Texas State) to the 1994 Southland Conference Tournament title and the first NCAA Tournament berth in program history

  • Served as an NBA assistant coach with the Chicago Bulls (1998-2000) before taking over at Kansas State

  • Played guard at Louisiana Tech, where he was part of a Southland Conference championship team

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Tim Jankovich

  • Won 282 career games over 15 seasons as a Division I head coach at North Texas, Illinois State, and SMU

  • Went 125-64 in six seasons at SMU with an 86-18 record at Moody Coliseum, the best home winning percentage in program history

  • Led SMU to a school-record 30 wins in 2016-17, sweeping the AAC regular season and tournament titles and earning AAC Coach of the Year honors

  • Developed NBA draft picks Semi Ojeleye, Sterling Brown, and Shake Milton at SMU; won 105 games in five seasons at Illinois State

  • Four-year starting point guard at Kansas State and a longtime assistant under Bill Self at Illinois and Kansas

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John Hartwell

  • 1987 graduate of The Citadel, where he was a four-year basketball letterman, three-year starter, and senior team captain

  • As senior executive associate AD at Ole Miss (2003-12), helped grow the athletic budget from $26 million to $47 million

  • Director of Athletics at Troy University (2012-15), leading major fundraising growth and facility upgrades

  • Vice President and Director of Athletics at Utah State (2015-22), overseeing Mountain West championship runs in football and basketball

  • Named Director of Athletics at Louisiana-Monroe in 2023; began his professional career as a CPA at Ernst & Young

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Duran Lawson

  • Record-setting quarterback who finished as The Citadel's all-time career passing leader, breaking a record that had stood since the early 1990s

  • Set The Citadel single-game total offense record with 486 yards in a 54-51 overtime win over Furman in 2007, earning SoCon Offensive Player of the Week and national player of the week honors

  • Walter Payton Award watch list selection as a senior in 2007, ranking 7th nationally in total offense while quarterbacking an offense that ranked 5th in FCS in scoring (40.1 points per game)

  • Led the 2007 Bulldogs to a 7-4 record, the program's best season since the 1992 Southern Conference championship year

  • Commissioned into the U.S. Army and inducted into The Citadel Athletic Hall of Fame in 2025

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