UNC Basketball: Ranking the last ten Tar Heel basketball teams

CHAPEL HILL, NC - FEBRUARY 18: Starters for the North Carolina Tar Heels (L-R) Kendall Marshall #5, Reggie Bullock #35, John Henson #31, Tyler Zeller #44 and Harrison Barnes #40 during a game against the Clemson Tigers on February 18, 2012 at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. North Carolina won 52-74. (Photo by Peyton Williams/UNC/Getty Images) /

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CHAPEL HILL, NC – JANUARY 09: A close-up of the jersey of Joel Berry II #2 of the North Carolina Tar Heels during a game against the Boston College Eagles on January 09, 2018 at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. North Carolina won 66-96. (Photo by Peyton Williams/UNC/Getty Images) /

7. 2017-18 (26-11)

The Tar Heels were coming off a national championship season while returning their best player, Joel Berry, but this team didn’t live up to the hype. They made a deep run in the ACC tournament, making it all the way to the championship game, but they fell short to Virginia.

This team beat Duke twice, with one of those wins coming in the ACC tournament, which always makes the season more enjoyable and memorable to look back on.

Where this team fell off was in the NCAA tournament, where they couldn’t make it out of the second round as a 2-seed. They beat Lipscomb, but got manhandled by a much lesser Texas A&M team that had the kind of size that an unusually small North Carolina team simply couldn’t macth up with.

This team was expected to be great, but the blowout loss to Texas A&M in the NCAA Tournament is how this team will most commonly be remembered.

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