We’re just over a month removed from the untimely end to the 2019-20 college basketball season — and just about every other sport known to man — and another six months out from what we hope will be the start of 2020-21 campaign. Apparently ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi doesn’t feel very strongly about the Tar Heels’ chances next season, because not a single bracket he’s released over the course of the past month has featured a North Carolina team with better than a 5-seed. And on one occasion, he even had the Tar Heels earmarked for a 7-seed.
His latest iteration of the tournament field places North Carolina on the six-line with the likes of Michigan, Rutgers and Lousiville, and just one line ahead of UCLA, Purdue, Indiana and Stanford.