While the UNC men’s basketball season won’t start for another week and a half, we’ve got the privilege of a televised exhibition game tonight. The Heels will host Division II Johnson C. Smith University’s Golden Bulls in the Dean Smith Center for the teams’ first meeting, even if it won’t be in any official record books.
Scheduling Johnson C. Smith is notable for a few reasons. First, it’s a chance for UNC to bring some shine to a North Carolina HBCU that they haven’t before, and one that isn’t in the UNC system to boot (as a reminder, the HBCUs in the UNC system are North Carolina A&T, Fayetteville State, North Carolina Central, Elizabeth City State, and Winston-Salem State).