The North Carolina Tar Heels are officially in the danger zone with their hopes of making it to the NCAA Tournament.
After another disappointing loss that resulted in two blown chances for a Quad 1 win, UNC is 0-8 in Quad 1 games and is team No. 69 in Joe Lunardi’s latest mock bracket. With four games left, they need to win as many of those as they can and they need to also avoid the bad losses.
Those bad losses would be road games at Notre Dame and Florida State.
On Wednesday, the Tar Heels begin the stretch of four games to close out the season with a trip to South Bend to take on the Fighting Irish. Mike Brey’s team has also seen their struggles this year, entering this game at 10-17 overall and 2-14 in ACC play. Notre Dame has really struggled in conference play but has played well of late.
Last week, they lost to Duke by four and Virginia by twp, both on the road as they almost pulled the upsets. They even had a shot to beat the Cavaliers with a last-season three-point attempt that fell short.
This isn’t a team that UNC can take lightly.
For UNC, they really need to come out and get this win and start to build some momentum going into March. You can say this is the start of their tournament.