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Men's Basketball to Face UCLA in CBS Sports Classic

The University of North Carolina will play 2021 NCAA finalist UCLA in the eighth CBS Sports Classic, which will be played Saturday, December 18, at a site to be announced at a later date.

The Tar Heels and Bruins will play at 3 p.m. Eastern and will be followed by Ohio State facing Kentucky in the second game of the doubleheader. The doubleheader will be broadcast on the CBS Television Network and streamed on Paramount+ Premium.

The CBS Sports Classic annually brings together four of the nation's most successful college basketball programs. The quartet owns a combined 26 national championships, with UCLA (11), Kentucky (8) and North Carolina (6) ranking first, second and third, respectively, in NCAA history.