Most of this has been known in bits and pieces but here is the pre-January slate for men's basketball laid out in full.
| Day | Date | Opponent | Location |
| Friday | November 6 | Guilford(Exhibition) | Chapel Hill |
| Friday | November 13 | Temple | Annapolis, MD |
| Sunday | November 15 | Fairfield | Chapel Hill |
| Wednesday | November 18 | Wofford | Chapel Hill |
| Saturday | November 21 | Northern Iowa | Cedar Falls, IA |
| Monday | November 23 | Kansas State/Missouri/Northwestern(CBE Classic) | Kansas City, MO |
| Tuesday | November 24 | Kansas State/Missouri/Northwestern(CBE Classic) | Kansas City, MO |
| Tuesday | December 1 | Maryland(ACC/B1G Challenge) | Chapel Hill |
| Sunday | December 6 | Davidson | Chapel Hill |
| Saturday | December 12 | Texas | Austin, TX |
| Wednesday | December 16 | Tulane | Chapel Hill |
| Saturday | December 19 | UCLA | Brooklyn, NY |
| Monday | December 21 | Appalachian State | Chapel Hill |
| Monday | December 28 | UNCG | Chapel Hill |
No times have been announced for these yet. That will come when the ACC does the full release of the basketball schedule some time in August.
This is a fairly stout non-conference slate opening the season against Temple then facing a slew of potentially ranked/NCAA Tournament caliber teams. Even the mid-major type teams like Northern Iowa and Davidson won't be walks in the park. The game versus Northern Iowa will be a true road game and serve as the homecoming game for Iowa native Marcus Paige.
This type of schedule means it will be incumbent on this team to come out of the gate playing at a level similar to what we saw at the end of the season. Roy Williams' teams tend to start the season slow but with a team that returns so many experienced players, that shouldn't be the case. UNC dug a hole last season in terms of NCAA seeding by not collecting enough quality wins. If UNC can go into ACC play having performed extremely well against this slate it will put the team on an inside track for a high seed and placement in Raleigh for the 1st and 2nd Rounds.
