The North Carolina Tar Heels season is not going as anybody expected, and they could make some infamous history that nobody wants to make–or expected them to make.
It has been so disappointing that the phrase “March Madness” might begin to take on an entirely different meaning in Chapel Hill.
Thanks to Sunday’s 77-69 loss to in-state rival North Carolina State, the Tar Heels fell to 16-11 on the season and 8-8 in ACC conference play. Even more concerning, they are now 0-9 in Quad 1 games.
Quad 1 games are defined as “home games vs. RPI teams ranked in the top 30; neutral games vs. 1-50; away games vs. 1-75.”
North Carolina has played nine such games this season and lost every single one of them.
That is bad news, and puts their NCAA tournament hopes in doubt. And that would be an unprecedented failure given where the Tar Heels started the season. North Carolina opened the season as the No. 1 team in the country, and as college basketball analyst Jeff Goodman points out, no preseason No. 1 team has ever — ever — failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament.
