Following its 94-81 win at No. 4 Duke Saturday night, the UNC men’s basketball team rose back into the AP’s Top 25 on Monday, landing at No. 25. The team had been unranked since November.

Carolina and Duke are the only ACC teams to be ranked in the latest poll. The Blue Devils fell from No. 4 to No. 7 following Saturday’s game. Notre Dame, the only other ACC team included in the Receiving Votes category, got four votes. For a full look at this week’s AP Poll, click here.

UNC will enter this week’s ACC Tournament in Brooklyn as the No. 3 seed and will receive a double-bye, meaning the team won’t play until Thursday night. Its current five-game winning streak is tied for the team’s longest of the season. Carolina and Notre Dame tied for second place in the conference at 15-5, but the Tar Heels lost the tiebreaker due to their head-to-head loss to the Fighting Irish earlier this season. No. 1 Duke and No. 4 Miami join Carolina and Notre Dame as the conference’s top four seeds.

UNC is scheduled to play at 9:30 p.m. Thursday night in the last of the day’s quarterfinal games. They will face either No. 14 seed Georgia Tech, No. 11 seed Louisville or No. 6 seed Virginia. The Yellow Jackets and Cardinals will face off on Tuesday night for the right to play the Cavaliers in Wednesday’s second round.

 

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