Tar Heels Welcome Home King Rice & Monmouth Wednesday
• Carolina concludes regular-season non-conference play against Monmouth on 12/28 at 7 p.m. at the Dean E. Smith Center.
• Carolina begins ACC play on 12/31 at Georgia Tech and 1/3 at Clemson before returning to the Smith Center for the ACC home opener against NC State on 1/7.
• The ACC will announce the gametime for the NC State game on 1/1 (depends on the NFL Playoff schedule).
• Monmouth head coach King Rice played at Carolina from 1987-91 and was a tri-captain and starting point guard on the 1991 team that won the ACC Tournament title and NCAA East Regional and played in the Final Four.