It’s almost basketball season in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with the Tar Heels just over a month away from taking the court for their first official game.
UNC will kick its 2024-2025 campaign off against in-state opponent Elon on Monday, Nov. 4 inside the Dean Dome. North Carolina plays a pretty challenging non-conference schedule, highlighted by matchups against Alabama, Florida, UCLA and Dayton, then hops into its ACC slate in early December.
Speaking of the Tar Heels’ ACC schedule, it was released on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. ET. We’re here to showcase all each UNC opponent – then give you fan reactions to it.
North Carolina’s first ACC game is on Saturday, Dec. 7 at 2 p.m. against Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels then close out December with the rest of their non-conference schedule, with their second ACC game against Louisville slated for New Year’s Day.
UNC’s January ACC matchups include Notre Dame (4th), conference newcomer SMU (7th), a revenge game with NC State (11th), two more ACC newbies in Cal (15th) and Stanford (18th), Wake Forest (21st), Boston College (25th) and Pitt (28th).
North Carolina starts its February slate at archrival Duke (1st), then returns home the following weekend to host Pitt (8th). The Tar Heels then play consecutive road games at Clemson (10th) and Syracuse (15th), followed by two straight home games against NC State (19th) and Virginia (22nd), before ending February at Florida State (24th).
UNC plays just three games in March: at home against Miami (1st), in Blacksburg, Va. at Virginia Tech (4th) and closing the regular season out against Duke (8th).
Let’s take a look at what Tar Heel Nation thought of North Carolina’s ACC schedule, which both starts and ends at home.
This fan is super excited for the season to start
First UNC-Duke matchup part of historic day
UNC-Wake Forest a January battle
The 2024-25 Wake Forest Men’s Basketball schedule is here!
The Demon Deacons will face both UNC and Duke at home in the same week.
Both games are set to be broadcast on ESPN. pic.twitter.com/1nvp59nVKF
— Andrew Braun (@andrewbraun04) September 25, 2024
Starting February and ending March against…Duke
ACC Basketball schedule being unveiled now:
The Tar Heels’ games with Duke are Feb. 1 in Durham and March 8 in Chapel Hill.
— Tar Heel Illustrated (@HeelIllustrated) September 25, 2024
Keep in mind…times aren’t finalized
Trying to find the printable schedule on the website. Did y’all get rid of that this year?
— Alex Gilmore (@a_gilmore8) September 25, 2024
Check out THI’s analysis
This fan is confused by home January slate
SMU, Cal, Stanford, BC are the January home games at the Smith Center in the ACC. Who approved that?
— TarheelG (@Louis_Galoppo) September 25, 2024
No West Coast travel? No problem.
Thankful we don’t have to visit the west coast for those ACC powers
— CarolinaDNA (@CarolinaDNA) September 25, 2024
Again…why do we have three new ACC schools?
Cal, Stanford, SMU 🤮🤮🤮 get them out of our conference
— Chase (@chazz336) September 25, 2024
This fan is very confident
This article originally appeared on Tar Heels Wire : UNC basketball fans react to Tar Heels’ 2024-2025 ACC schedule release
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