Cartwright "Cart" Carmichael was the first member of the North Carolina Tar Heels

North Carolina Tar Heels

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 to earn All-America

All-America

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 honors in any sport, when he was named to the 1923 first team for men's basketball

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, an honor he also received in 1924. He was a member of the team named 1922 and 1924 "The Champions of the South" after winning the Southern Conference

Southern Conference

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 tournament at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium

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 and which was also retrospectively awarded the 1924 national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation

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 some eleven years later. In addition to two regular season and two postseason conference championships, he was a three time All-Southern Conference selection. His brother Billy was later vice-president of the Consolidated University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

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 and for whom the William D. Carmichael, Jr. Auditorium (now Carmichael Arena) on campus was named.