North Carolina Tar Heels

The Tar Heels did not lose at home in 2025-26, 18-0, and a unit on them in each priced home game made 6.31, a sum only five Division I teams topped. Away from Chapel Hill they were 4-6.

18-0, and paid for it

North Carolina won all 18 home games. The moneyline was posted for 15 of them and returned 6.31 units, most of it from two home wins as underdogs: Duke 71-68 on 7 February at +220, and Louisville 77-74 at +160. Against the spread they were 12-6 at home.

The underdog record

The Tar Heels were underdogs 11 times, won 5 and covered 7. One unit on them in each returned 3.8. Beside Duke and Louisville, the wins came at Kentucky 67-64 at +245, at Virginia 85-80 at +235, and at Syracuse at +120.

The road

Away from home they were 4-6 straight up and 5-5 against the spread, and the ten priced road games came to 0.18 units, close to nothing either way. The worst stretch was two road games in January: beaten 95-90 at Stanford as -198 favorites, then 84-78 at California at -305, three days apart.

19 covers in 32

Over 32 games North Carolina covered 19 times and missed 13, 59.4%; 44 Division I teams covered more often and seven matched it. December was 7-0 with five covers and 3.4 units, and February 6-2 with 3.6; across all 29 priced games the moneyline made 5.28.

The ACC

Clemson split two games with them and the Tar Heels covered both, the second an 80-79 defeat in the ACC tournament quarterfinal as 2.5-point underdogs. Duke also split, and North Carolina covered both of those too.

The total

Seventeen unders and 15 overs in 32 games, while North Carolina scored 79.78 a game and allowed 71.31; the totals gave no lean.

In the NCAA tournament they lost their first game, 82-78 to VCU.

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