The 2026-27 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team will represent the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 2026-27 NCAA Division I men's basketball season as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team will be led by coach Michael Malone in his first season as head coach and will play their home games at Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Previous season
The Tar Heels finished the 2025–26 season 24–9, 12–6 in ACC play to finish in a two-way tie for fourth place. As the No. 4 seed in the ACC Tournament, they would loss to 5th seed Clemson 80-79 in the Quarterfinals. They received an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament as the 6th seed, and were they would loss to 11th seed VCU 82-78 in Overtime in the First round.
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