Former University of North Carolina basketball star Larry Miller died Sunday, the university announced.
Miller died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, at the age of 79.
The Catasauqua, Pennsylvania-native was a forward on Dean Smith’s first two ACC championship and Final Four teams in 1967 and 1968, earning first-team All-American honors in both seasons.
In 1968, Miller was a consensus first-team All-America on one of the greatest five-man squads ever honored, joining UCLA’s Lew Alcindor (later renamed to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Houston’s Elvin Hayes, LSU’s Pete Maravich and Louisville’s Wes Unseld.
Miller is one of three players ever to win ACC Player-of-the-Year and Tournament MVP honors in consecutive seasons and is the only Tar Heel to win ACC Player of the Year twice.
Miller scored double figures in 64 consecutive games, which is still the UNC record. Miller scored 1,982 points in three seasons and averaged 21.8 per game, the fifth-highest by a Tar Heel.
In one of Miller’s most memorable performances, he scored 32 points on 13 of 14 shooting from the floor in an 82-73 victory over Duke in the 1967 ACC championship game.
Miller played seven years in the ABA and set the league’s all-time single-game record with 67 points.