Pat Sullivan

Biography

Pat Sullivan is in his 13th season as a Tar Heel, including five as a player (1990-95) and eight in two different stints on Dean Smith’s, Bill Guthridge’s and Hubert Davis’ staffs. In his first four seasons in his second stint as a member of the UNC coaching staff the Tar Heels have won 101 games, including 56-24 in ACC play, earned a Final Four berth, an ACC regular-season championship and a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. The 2022 Final Four was Pat Sullivan’s seventh as a Tar Heel. He played in 1991, 1993 and 1995, was on Smith’s staff in 1997, an assistant coach in 1998 and 2000 and the 2022 Final Four capped his first season on staff with Davis, a former UNC teammate. Sullivan played for Smith at Carolina from 1990-93 and 1994-95 (he requested to red-shirt the 1993-94 season) and was part of Bill Guthridge’s staff with Phil Ford and Dave Hanners that won NCAA regional titles and advanced to the Final Four in 1998 and 2000. Carolina won the 1993 NCAA championship in Sullivan’s junior season. He has played in more NCAA Tournament games (19) and more NCAA Tournament wins (17) than any Tar Heel in history and is one of seven Tar Heels who have played in three Final Fours. Sullivan was a member of Hall of Famer Larry Brown’s staff with the Detroit Pistons when they won the NBA championship in 2003-04. He served as assistant coach with the Pistons in 2004-05, with the New Jersey Nets from 2005-08, the Pistons again from 2008-11, the Washington Wizards from 2012-16, the Los