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UNC may have opened the season as the nation’s No. 1 team, but now the Tar Heels are not even in the mix for the Big Dance.
When things were revealed on Selection Sunday, one of the hottest topics across sports media was the exclusion off UNC and how far the program tumbled off from the original expectation in which the bar was set incredibly high.
The Tar Heels are the first preseason No. 1 team to miss the NCAA Tournament since the field expanded back in 1985. Several took to social media in reaction to the event:
How was UNC that close to getting in? One Q1 win the entire season.
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) March 12, 2023
Tar Heels choose not to participate in 2023 NIT.
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— Carolina Basketball (@UNC_Basketball) March 12, 2023
Final UNC tweet of the season. You’re done. Bye bye pic.twitter.com/3MDMwyF3fZ
— Crazie Talk (@crazietalker) March 12, 2023
You’ll have a hard time convincing me that Nevada is a better basketball team than UNC. Nonetheless we should’ve won the games we had the chances to win.
— Josh Marlow (@HTB_Josh) March 12, 2023
Official: #UNC is the first preseason No. 1 team to not make the NCAA Tournament since the field expanded in 1985.
— Jacob Turner (@JacobTurnerTHI) March 12, 2023
They're gonna let UNC in aren't they…
— Barstool Blue Devils (@BarstoolBDevils) March 12, 2023
UNC officially declines the NIT. Can we just give #Nebrasketball their slot please NIT??? https://t.co/ASURu8nFHn
— The Sickos CBB Committee SOLE (@SickosCBB) March 12, 2023
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