Marcus Paige

Biography

Marcus Paige, the only three-time captain in UNC basketball history, is in his third season as an assistant coach. Paige began his coaching career after playing professional basketball for seven seasons. Paige played for the Tar Heels from 2012-16 and concluded his career 11th at Carolina in scoring with 1,844 points, first in three-pointers (299), third in steals (203), fourth in free throw percentage (.844) and eighth in assists (602). He made more threes in NCAA Tournament play than any other Tar Heel (39) and was the only player in NCAA Tournament history to make multiple three-pointers in all 13 games in which he played. The Marion, Iowa, native was first-team All-ACC and a second-team All-America as a sophomore, a second-team All-ACC selection in 2015, an honorable mention All-America in 2016, was Carolina’s Most Valuable Player in 2014 and 2015 and is the only Tar Heel to win the team’s defensive player of the year award four times. He was twice named National Player of the Week and was ACC Player of the Week four times in 2014, when he became the first Tar Heel point guard to earn first-team All-ACC honors as a sophomore since Phil Ford in 1976. Paige finished his collegiate career as one of two players in ACC history (with Duke’s Jason Williams) to amass 1,800 points, 500 assists, 350 rebounds, 275 three-pointers and 200 steals. As a senior in 2016, he led UNC to an ACC Tournament championship then shot nearly 49 percent from three in six games in the NCAA Tournament