Tomorrow, Carolina returns to the Sweet 16 as a top seed for the first time since 2019. While it seems like each season the Tar Heels don’t get the bracket luck, this season every one and two-seed made it to the regional round. The teams that make it to the Final Four this year will have to play some good basketball, and that includes the Tar Heels.
The competition will be stepped up this weekend, and it starts with the Crimson Tide of Alabama. The two last played in the infamous consolation game of the PK85 in November, 2022, and that marathon was a hint of a frustrating season to come for Carolina.