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The 2016–17 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. It was head coach Roy Williams' 14th season. The Tar Heels played their home games at the Dean Smith Center as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The 2017–18 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach was Roy Williams, who was in his 15th season as UNC's head men's basketball coach.
In contrast to the positive reaction [38] to the previous year's title game—in which UNC lost to Villanova at the buzzer—many criticized the quality of play in the 2017 championship. North Carolina head coach Roy Williams did so as well, commenting during the trophy presentation ceremony that "neither team played very well."
North Carolina won the NCAA men's national championship game on Monday night, defeating Gonzaga 71-65.
A total of 68 teams entered the 2017 tournament, with all 32 conference tournament winners receiving an automatic bid. The Ivy League, which previously granted its automatic tournament bid to its regular season champion, hosted a postseason tournament to determine a conference champion for the first time.
The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program is a college basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.The Tar Heels have won six NCAA championships (1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, and 2017) in addition to a 1924 Helms Athletic Foundation title (retroactive).
Theophilus Alphonso Pinson Jr. [1] (born November 5, 1995) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. A 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) swingman, Pinson was the starting shooting guard for the Tar Heels' 2017 NCAA championship team.
N.C. State played one of its better first halves of the season on Saturday at Wolfpack, and led by 10 early in the second half. State’s good fortune – and good play – did not last.