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Location: Wilmington, NC Enrollment: 15,500 Cost of Attendance: $28,000 in-state; $45,000 out-of-state Venue:
Trask Coliseum Arena
Capacity: 5,200 Conference: Coastal Athletic
Association, CAA (2nd) Record: 27-7 (14-4) NET Rank: 102 Committee Rank: 57 Tournament History Appearances: 6 Final Fours: 0 Championships: 0 Win-Loss: 1-6 Most Recent: 2017, lost as a #12 seed to #5 Virginia, 71-76 |
University of North Carolina
Wilmington
The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNC Wilmington or UNCW) is a public research university in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is one of 17 institutions in the University of North Carolina system and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities High research activity". Founded on September 4, 1947, Wilmington College opened as a junior college, primarily providing education to World War II veterans. The school became a four-year liberal arts college in 1963, following legislation from the North Carolina General Assembly. In 1969, the college became a university and was renamed as the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Today, it has three campuses with the main campus in Wilmington, an extension campus in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and the Center for Marine Science near Myrtle Grove, North Carolina. Location Location
Location UNCW is located in Wilmington which is boarded by the Cape Fear River on the west and its riverwalk and historic district and Wrightsville Beach to the east and its beaches. The distance from dorm to sand: 5 miles.
Wilmington is gorgeous. Wrightsville Beach is gorgeous. UNCW is gorgeous.
My daughter is attending UNCW right now. Love where you live. The UNCW basketball program moved to Division I in 1976 and has appeared six times in the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. This year, seeded second in the CAA Tournament, UNCW posted a hard-fought 76-72 victory over Delaware to capture the 2025 CAA Men s Basketball Championship. It was the league-record seventh CAA championship for the Seahawks, who earned an automatic berth to the NCAA Men s Basketball Championship. It was the first title for UNCW since 2017 after falling in the finals in 2022 and 2023. In 2022, the Seahawks appeared in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) where they were the champions.
Calipari played two years (1978-80) at UNCW before transferring to Clarion University of Pennsylvania (close to where he grew up), from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing. He played point guard at Clarion during the 1981 and 1982 seasons, leading the team in assists and free throw percentage. Calipari now coaches Arkansas but might be best known for his stints at UMass, Memphis, and Kentucky, and for his numerous vacated victories for various NCAA violations. He continues to be one of the most hated coaches in college basketball. Just ask the late great John Chaney what he thinks of Calipari. There are also some ESPN clips in that link from 1994 of Grant Hill playing for Duke, and Wake Forest coach Dave Odom, father of current VCU coach Ryan Odom, and Randolph Childress playing for Wake this was my era as a student at Maryland. Good times. The Seahawks first head coach was Mel Gibson (nope, not that Mel Gibson, thankfully). Current Clemson coach Brad Brownell was a head coach at UNCW from 2002-06, going to the NCAA tournament twice during those four seasons. He does not have any vacated victories. The Seahawks play their home games in Trask Coliseum, where the student section is known to be the best in the CAA.
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former UNCW player who is now a head coach: Arkansas head coach John
Calipari.