NCAA Tournament March Madness

#22 North Carolina

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Projected seed: 4

North Carolina’s resume is built on a few headline wins and a clear ability to win outside Chapel Hill, with a signature victory over Kansas, a true road triumph at Kentucky, and a neutral-site win over Ohio State giving the committee real evidence of quality; those highs are tempered by a heavy neutral loss to Michigan State that exposes vulnerability in tournament-style settings and by nonconference blowouts that don’t carry much weight. The ACC slate still offers important chances to redefine the resume, most notably road opportunities at Virginia and at Duke and a home clash with Louisville that could turn a résumé into something elite, while additional road trips to Stanford and California and home tests against the league’s mid-tier teams provide more chances to prove consistency. If the Tar Heels protect the good road and neutral results they’ve already posted and avoid damaging losses in league play, their overall profile will hold; if they drop revisited road tests or follow the Michigan State result with another bad neutral outcome, that will be the kind of damage the committee penalizes heavily.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Cent Arkansas237W94-54
11/7Kansas17W87-74
11/11Radford242W89-74
11/14NC Central351W97-53
11/18Navy207W73-61
11/25(N)St Bonaventure114W85-70
11/27(N)Michigan St15L74-58
12/2@Kentucky20W67-64
12/7Georgetown106W81-61
12/13SC Upstate267W80-62
12/16ETSU127W77-58
12/20(N)Ohio St36W71-70
12/22East Carolina285W99-51
12/30Florida St10990%
1/3@SMU4148%
1/10Wake Forest6180%
1/14@Stanford9470%
1/17@California7564%
1/21Notre Dame5880%
1/24@Virginia2642%
1/31@Georgia Tech12580%
2/2Syracuse8084%
2/7Duke942%
2/10@Miami FL3847%
2/14Pittsburgh9386%
2/17@NC State2440%
2/21@Syracuse8066%
2/23Louisville1148%
2/28Virginia Tech6281%
3/3Clemson3568%
3/7@Duke922%