The Charlotte 49ers represent the NCAA Division I sports teams of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Charlotte's teams are members of the Atlantic 10 Conference as of January 2013, but will move to Conference USA, a conference they were a charter member of, in July 2013. Previously, Charlotte was a member of the Metro Conference, which merged with the Great Midwest Conference to form Conference USA, and was a charter member of the Sun Belt Conference.
Charlotte's Men's Basketball team reached the Final Four in 1977 and has made consistent NCAA tournament appearances ever since. The golf program was ranked the #1 team in the nation as recently as September 2007. The men's soccer team reached the national championship game of the 2011 College Cup, to compete for the title on December 11 against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tar Heels but lost against the number one ranked team in the country at the time and the 2011 College Cup Tournament's top seeded team.
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