Keeping It Heel.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nMalone kicks off conference play at home when the Golden Bears visit the Dean Smith Center on Dec. 30. The squad then travels to Boston College on Jan. 2 and Louisville on Jan. 5 to start 2027. A home contest against NC State on Jan. 9 marks the second meeting between these programs but the only conference showdown, as both teams also clash Dec. 15 in Greensboro in a non-conference battle.<\/p>\n
The lineup includes home-and-home series with Duke and Louisville. Seth Trimble, a former Tar Heel, now suits up for the Cardinals and will return to Chapel Hill on Feb. 8. The squad visits Cameron Indoor Stadium on Feb. 13 before hosting the Blue Devils in the regular season finale.<\/p>\n
UNC will not face Clemson this season. This marks the first time since 1950-51 that the programs will not meet during the regular season.<\/p>\n
The Tar Heels will host California, Georgia Tech, Miami, NC State, SMU, Stanford, and Virginia while traveling to Boston College, Florida State, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, and Wake Forest.<\/p>\n
Malone won an NBA Championship with the Denver Nuggets in 2023 before taking over at Chapel Hill. The program dismissed Hubert Davis after five seasons following a first-round NCAA Tournament exit against Virginia Commonwealth last season. Davis led the program to the national championship game in 2022, falling 72-69 to Kansas in his first year as head coach.<\/p>\n
The roster includes 11 new players. Transfers Neoklis Avdalas from Virginia Tech and Matt Able from NC State headline the additions. Guard Terrence Brown joined from Utah, while forward Jarin Stevenson returns. The squad finished 24-9 and posted a 12-6 record in conference play last season.<\/p>\n
Non-conference action begins with three exhibition games, starting Oct. 9 against Southern California in Greensboro. The regular season opens Nov. 2 against Western Carolina at home. Other non-conference opponents include Kentucky at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 19 and Illinois on Jan. 30 in Nashville.<\/p>\n
The ACC Tournament runs March 9-13 in Greensboro. Tip-off times for conference games haven’t been finalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Atlantic Coast Conference unveiled its men’s basketball schedule Wednesday. This completes the 2026-27 lineup for North Carolina…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,217,333],"class_list":["post-833196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-unc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117253704465494634","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}