NCAA Tournament March Madness

#28 North Carolina

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Projected seed: 5

North Carolina's resume aligns with a middle-of-the-bracket placement because its season mixes high-end, resume-making wins with a handful of damaging slips away from home. Signature victories over Kansas on a neutral court, a road triumph at Kentucky and the home win over Duke, capped by a neutral win over Ohio State and a road victory at Virginia, give the Tar Heels the kind of marquee moments the committee values. Those highs are tempered by an ugly neutral loss to Michigan State and road setbacks at SMU and on the West Coast that expose defensive inconsistency and make the bad losses stick. With the ACC schedule still to play and meaningful opportunities ahead on the road at NC State, Syracuse and Duke plus home dates with Louisville, Virginia Tech and Clemson, North Carolina can either erase the blemishes and cement its spot or leave those lapses as the defining part of the resume.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Cent Arkansas163W94-54
11/7Kansas14W87-74
11/11Radford236W89-74
11/14NC Central346W97-53
11/18Navy157W73-61
11/25(N)St Bonaventure145W85-70
11/27(N)Michigan St13L74-58
12/2@Kentucky27W67-64
12/7Georgetown83W81-61
12/13SC Upstate299W80-62
12/16ETSU141W77-58
12/20(N)Ohio St40W71-70
12/22East Carolina261W99-51
12/30Florida St79W79-66
1/3@SMU38L97-83
1/10Wake Forest72W87-84
1/14@Stanford76L95-90
1/17@California67L84-78
1/21Notre Dame82W91-69
1/24@Virginia20W85-80
1/31@Georgia Tech162W91-75
2/2Syracuse69W87-77
2/7Duke3W71-68
2/10@Miami FL37L75-66
2/14Pittsburgh109W79-65
2/17@NC State3039%
2/21@Syracuse6963%
2/23Louisville1547%
2/28Virginia Tech6581%
3/3Clemson3364%
3/7@Duke312%