Sports fans are gearing up for the 2026 college football season that begins this weekend, but we aren’t far away from college basketball starting either. In just a few months, the college basketball season will be here and for the North Carolina Tar Heels, they are entering year one of the Michael Malone era.
There are still a lot of questions left to be answered for the Tar Heels and we could get a feel for how things are going to go early on. Right now, many believe the Tar Heels are at least a tournament team, and if they don’t make it, this season would be a huge disappointment.
As we sit here in August, Joe Lunardi of ESPN released his very early Bracketology for the 2027 NCAA Tournament.
The good news is that he has UNC in the field. The disappointing news? It’s in the 8/9 game as he has them as the No. 8 seed matched up with No. 9 Auburn. The two teams are in the South Region and would be matched up with No. 1 Florida in the next round.
Ideally, the Tar Heels would have a better seed than that, which would mean a more successful regular season leading into the tournament. But it’s still very early on, and a lot will change between now and the time Selection Sunday comes around.
