The ACC announced the conference opponents for each school in men’s basketball for the 2025-26 season. The coming season will be the first since the league shifted back to an 18-game conference schedule. With the change, UNC will play two opponents twice, 14 opponents once and not play one other league school at all during the regular season.

As expected, UNC will play Duke twice, with each team hosting once. But the Tar Heels’ second home-and-home series will be with Syracuse, meaning Carolina will only play NC State once during the regular season. That matchup will come in Raleigh, making the 2025-26 season the first without a home game against the Wolfpack since 1919.

Elsewhere on the road slate, Carolina will travel to Cal, Stanford, SMU, Miami, Georgia Tech and Virginia. Coming to the Dean Smith Center will be Pittsburgh, Florida State, Clemson, Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Louisville and Notre Dame. UNC will not play Boston College. Teams will begin conference play in late December.

The road trips to Cal, Stanford and SMU will be the first the Tar Heels make as conference foes. UNC last played at Cal in 1972, last visited Stanford in 2017 and last visited SMU in 1986.

Dates and times of individual games will be announced at a later date.

The list of opponents was revealed the same day as UNC reportedly finalized a home-and-home agreement with Georgetown for the non-conference portion of the schedule.

 

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