According to a report from college basketball insider Jon Rothstein, UNC will begin a home-and-home series with Georgetown beginning this coming season. The first game will reportedly be in Chapel Hill in December, with a return trip to Georgetown scheduled for the following season.

Georgetown is currently coached by Ed Cooley. The Hoyas have struggled recently, making the NCAA Tournament just once in the last 10 seasons. The 2025-26 season will be Cooley’s third with the program.

UNC and Georgetown will forever be linked in history, as Carolina defeated the Hoyas in a thrilling NCAA Championship game in 1982. Freshman Michael Jordan made a game-winning jumper in the final seconds to lift his team to a one-point win over Patrick Ewing’s Hoyas, securing a first title for head coach Dean Smith.

But the two schools have met only twice since the turn of the century, with Georgetown emerging victorious both times. The Hoyas came to Chapel Hill in March of 2003 in the third round of the NIT and beat Carolina 79-74, in what turned out to be the final game for then-head coach Matt Doherty’s tenure with the Tar Heels.

The two teams met again in the Elite Eight of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Georgetown came out on top again, mounting a furious comeback against No. 1 seed Carolina to force overtime, then running away with a 96-84 win to deny Roy Williams’ group a trip to the Final Four.

UNC is 4-5 in nine all-time games against Georgetown. The Tar Heels’ last win came on November 23, 1999, when UNC won 85-79 in the championship game of the Maui Invitational.

 

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