Carmichael Arena
Coordinates: 35°54.57155′N 79°2.72447′W / 35.90952583°N 79.04540783°W / 35.90952583; -79.04540783
William Donald Carmichael, Jr. Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. It is home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels women's basketball team.
The arena opened in 1965 as Carmichael Auditorium. It is named for William Donald Carmichael, Jr., a popular former school vice-president and brother of All-America basketball player Cartwright Carmichael. Although it was apparent by the early 1960s that the men's basketball team needed a new home to replace 27-year-old Woollen Gymnasium, the state refused to fund a completely new arena. As a result, Carmichael was built as an annex to Woollen; it shares the older facility's eastern wall. It originally seated just over 8,000 people, but expansions over the years brought its final capacity to 10,180 by the time the men left for the Dean Smith Center in 1986. After the most recent remodeling completed in 2009, capacity is 8,010.