As one of the top three winningest college basketball programs of all time, the UNC basketball team has basically dominated everyone among the college landscape. The Tar Heels have accumulated a record 2399-847, good for a 0.733 winning percentage. With that kind of dominance, there are only a handful of schools with a winning record against the Tar Heels, and even fewer among those with a much larger sample size.
Of course you have a school like San Francisco that stole a victory in the lone matchup with the Tar Heels in the first round of the 1978 NCAA Tournament. But when it comes to schools that have matched up with the UNC Basketball programs more than 10 times, one may come as a surprise.
If you were given multiple choice options, I'm sure every UNC Basketball fan would automatically say Texas is the one program that has given the Tar Heels trouble - and you'd be correct. Those matchups with the Longhorns have been more recent and probably more relevant than the one below in terms of the modern era. But there is one school above the school from Austin that I don't think any Tar Heel fan would have chosen.
Wild nugget for you ahead of UNC vs. Navy tomorrow...
— Isaac Schade (@isaacschade) November 17, 2025
The 4 schools with the largest all-time series lead over Carolina:
4. Indiana: 4-game lead (10-6)
3. West Virginia: 5-game lead (5-0)
2. Texas : 6-game lead (9-3)
**1. Navy: 8-game lead (14-6)**
Yes, you're reading that correctly. North Carolina's next opponent, the Navy Midshipmen, holds an 8-game lead over the Tar Heels with a 14-6 record through 20 games. Now, granted, most of those games took place prior to 1950, and the two programs have only matched up once since 1959, with an 88-52 Tar Heel victory in the first round of the 1988 NCAA Tournament.
The UNC Basketball program opened as 24.5-point favorites for tomorrow night's matchup with Navy in what will be the first meeting between the two programs in more than 35 years. The Tar Heels will look to narrow the Midshipmen's eight-game lead in the all-time series.
It will be the last home game in Chapel Hill for nearly three weeks as North Carolina will have two neutral-site games in the Fort Myers Tip-Off before the ACC/SEC Challenge, where they will travel to Lexington for an anticipated matchup with currently No. 12-ranked Kentucky.