Basketball season will be here before you know it.

UNC has just announced this year’s edition of “Late Night With Roy” will take place in the Smith Center on Friday, October 23.

“Late Night With Roy” is the traditional start to UNC’s basketball season – a free event for fans complete with scrimmages, music, dances and skits by the Tar Heel men’s and women’s basketball teams.

More information available at GoHeels.com.

The event is free – but you can make sure to reserve seats NOW by purchasing tickets to the UNC-Virginia football game, which will take place the following day, October 24, in Kenan Stadium. Visit this link for more details about that promotion.

The late Stuart Scott will be honored prior to Late Night With Roy. Scott, the iconic ESPN sports broadcaster and 1987 Carolina alumnus, will be inducted into the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame on October 23.  Stuart Scott died at the age of 49 earlier in 2015.  Scott hosted Late Night With Roy 10 times.

Jones Angell, journalism alumnus and the “Voice of the Tar Heels,” will emcee the induction ceremony, which will also feature speakers UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol L. Folt, Carolina soccer legend Mia Hamm and UNC School of Media and Journalism Dean Susan King.

The Hall of Fame ceremony will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Alumni Hall in the University’s George Watts Hill Alumni Center. Tickets are $75, and space is limited. For more information and to register, go to: mj.unc.edu/stuart.

“Stuart Scott was an original who defined his brand of sports reporting,” said Susan King, dean of the UNC School of Media and Journalism. “He challenged the generation after him to be authentic and to find their voices as broadcasters. That may be his strongest professional legacy.”

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