If North Carolina is awarded the overall No. 1 seed on Selection Sunday and given the opportunity to request its preferred NCAA tournament locations, the Tar Heels would want to be slotted in Greenville, South Carolina, for the first weekend and Memphis, Tennessee, for the South Regional, a source told ESPN.
That means Villanova, another likely No. 1 seed, could be the top seed in the East Regional, played at Madison Square Garden in New York, even if the selection committee ranks the Tar Heels higher.
The NCAA introduced a new wrinkle to its seeding process this season, allowing the top seed to choose where it would like to play its tournament games.