No. 25 North Carolina (1-0) will take on No. 19 Kansas (1-0) in a primetime matchup at the Dean Smith Center on Friday at 7 p.m.
The Tar Heels are coming off a dominant 94-54 win over Central Arkansas, while the Jayhawks opened their season with a 94-51 victory against Green Bay. Kansas leads the all-time series 7-6 and has won the last five meetings, including last year’s 92-89 win in Lawrence and a 72-69 victory in the 2022 national championship game in New Orleans.
Despite having 13 meetings, the two blue blood programs will face each other in Chapel Hill for the first time in the series. However, it is not the first time the teams have met in North Carolina. The Tar Heels won both previous matchups against the Jayhawks in North Carolina: a 60-49 victory in Raleigh on Dec. 11, 1979, and a 74-67 win in Charlotte on Nov. 28, 1981…