The University of North Carolina men’s basketball schedule for the 2016-17 season was released Monday afternoon.  The Tar Heels’ final ten games of the regular season will feature eight contests against teams who made the 2016 NCAA Tournament.

The Carolina regular season will begin against Tulane on November 11 in New Orleans.

The Tar Heels will host Chattanooga on November 13 for the team’s first home game.  That match up will be a part of the Maui Invitational tournament.  After the Chattanooga game, Carolina will host Long Beach State on November 15.  Then, the Tar Heels will head to Hawaii to play in Honolulu at the University of Hawaii.  Chaminade will be Carolina’s opponent in the first round of the Maui Invitational on November 21.  Other schools headed to Maui include Connecticut, Oklahoma State, Georgetown, Oregon, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.  Carolina has won the Maui tournament three times including in both of head coach Roy Williams’ national championship winning seasons (2004-05 and 2008-09).

Carolina will play the Indiana Hoosiers at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana as a part of the ACC-Big Ten Challenge on November 30.

On December 17, Carolina will travel to Las Vegas to take on Kentucky.

ACC plays begins for Carolina on New Year’s Eve afternoon.  The Tar Heels travel to Atlanta for a December 31 game against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets  The second ACC game will be at Clemson on January 3.  This is the first time since the 1997-98 season that the Tar Heels will start the ACC schedule with two away games.

Carolina will play in four home-and-home series in the ACC.  The Tar Heels will play two games each against Duke, NC State, Pittsburgh, and Virginia.

The first Duke game will be in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Thursday, February 9 at 8 PM.  Carolina and Duke will wrap up their regular seasons on Saturday, March 4 in the Smith Center.

It all starts with Late Night with Roy on October 14.

See the full schedule below.

 

 2016-17 UNC Men’s Basketball
Date Opponent Time Coverage
 Oct 14  Late Night With Roy  7:30 PM  WCHL_Logo
Nov 4   UNC Pembroke (Exhibition)  7:30 PM   WCHL_Logo
Nov 11  @ Tulane  9 PM   WCHL_Logo
Nov 13  Chattanooga  6 PM   WCHL_Logo
Nov 15  Long Beach State  TBA   WCHL_Logo
Nov 16  @ Hawaii  TBA   WCHL_Logo
Nov 21  @Chaminade (Maui Invitational) 11:30 PM   WCHL_Logo
Nov 22  Connecticut or Oklahoma State (Maui Invitational) 3:30 or 10:30 PM   WCHL_Logo
Nov 23  Georgetown, Oregon, Tennessee, Wisconsin  TBA   WCHL_Logo
Nov 30  @ Indiana  9 PM   WCHL_Logo
Dec 4   Radford TBA   WCHL_Logo
Dec 7  Davidson  9 PM   WCHL_Logo
Dec 11  Tennessee  5 PM   WCHL_Logo
Dec 17  Kentucky (in Las Vegas)  5:45 PM   WCHL_Logo
Dec 21  Northern Iowa   8 PM  WCHL_Logo
Dec 28  Monmouth  7 PM   WCHL_Logo
Dec 31  @Georgia Tech  Noon or 2 PM   WCHL_Logo
Jan 3  @ Clemson 7 PM   WCHL_Logo
Jan 7   NC State 2 or 8 PM   WCHL_Logo
Jan 11  @ Wake Forest  8 PM   WCHL_Logo
Jan 14  Florida State  2 PM   WCHL_Logo
Jan 16  Syracuse  7 PM   WCHL_Logo
Jan 21  @ Boston College  Noon   WCHL_Logo
Jan 28  Virginia Tech  8 PM   WCHL_Logo
Jan 31   Pittsburgh 7 PM   WCHL_Logo
Feb 4   Notre Dame TBA   WCHL_Logo
Feb 9  @ Duke  8 PM   WCHL_Logo
Feb 15  @ NC State  8 PM   WCHL_Logo
Feb 18  Virginia  TBA   WCHL_Logo
Feb 22  Louisville  9 PM   WCHL_Logo
Feb 25  @ Pittsburgh  Noon   WCHL_Logo
 Feb 27 @ Virginia  7 PM   WCHL_Logo
March 4  Duke  8 PM   WCHL_Logo
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