what school did michael jordan go to?
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Emsley A. Laney High School
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 Jordan was recruited by numerous college basketball programs , including Duke , North Carolina , South Carolina , Syracuse , and Virginia . In 1981 , Jordan accepted a basketball scholarship to North Carolina , where he majored in cultural geography . 

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 Jordan Dumars ( son of Joe Dumars ) transferred to the University of Michigan in January 2010 after playing in six games for the South Florida Bulls men 's basketball team . According to NCAA transfer eligibility rules , he must sit out a complete academic year . Thus , he was able to join the team following the completion of the fall 2010 semester . 

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 As a freshman in coach Dean Smith 's team @-@ oriented system , he was named ACC Freshman of the Year after he averaged 13 @.@ 4 points per game ( ppg ) on 53 @.@ 4 % shooting ( field goal percentage ) . He made the game @-@ winning jump shot in the 1982 NCAA Championship game against Georgetown , which was led by future NBA rival Patrick Ewing . Jordan later described this shot as the major turning point in his basketball career . During his three seasons at North Carolina , he averaged 17 @.@ 7 ppg on 54 @.@ 0 % shooting , and added 5 @.@ 0 rebounds per game ( rpg ) . He was selected by consensus to the NCAA All @-@ American First Team in both his sophomore ( 1983 ) and junior ( 1984 ) seasons . After winning the Naismith and the Wooden College Player of the Year awards in 1984 , Jordan left North Carolina one year before his scheduled graduation to enter the 1984 NBA draft . The Chicago Bulls selected Jordan with the third overall pick , after Hakeem Olajuwon ( Houston Rockets ) and Sam Bowie ( Portland Trail Blazers ) . One of the primary reasons why Jordan was not drafted sooner was because the first two teams were in need of a center . However , the Trail Blazers general manager Stu Inman contended that it was not a matter of drafting a center , but more a matter of taking Sam Bowie over Jordan , in part because Portland already had a guard with similar skills to Jordan , Clyde Drexler . ESPN , citing Bowie 's injury @-@ laden college career , named the Blazers ' choice of Bowie as the worst draft pick in North American professional sports history . Jordan returned to North Carolina to complete his degree in 1986 . 

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 Jordan played on two Olympic gold medal @-@ winning American basketball teams . As a college player he participated , and won the gold , in the 1984 Summer Olympics . The team was coached by Bob Knight and featured players such as Patrick Ewing , Sam Perkins , Chris Mullin , Steve Alford , and Wayman Tisdale . Jordan led the team in scoring , averaging 17 @.@ 1 ppg for the tournament . 

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 When he graduated from high school in 1997 , Youkilis weighed about 227 pounds and was 6 ' 1 " . He was recruited by two Division I schools : Butler University and his ultimate choice , the University of Cincinnati ( UC ) — an institution that was the alma mater of both his father and Youkilis ' longtime idol , Sandy Koufax , and had just finished a 12 – 46 season . UC coach Brian Cleary spotted Youkilis at a winter camp . " I looked at him and said , Well , we need somebody " , said Cleary . " I 'd love to tell you I saw something no one else did , but he was just better than what we had . " 
