North Carolina, which defeated Virginia on Saturday night to win the ACC tournament championship, will begin the NCAA tournament as a No. 1 seed in the East Regional.
The Tar Heels path to Houston, and to the Final Four, will go through Raleigh and Philadelphia. If UNC wins its two games in Raleigh at the PNC Arena the Tar Heels would advance to the East Regional semifinals in Philadelphia.
UNC is an NCAA tournament No. 1 seed for the 15th time in school history. Virginia also earned a No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region.
Kansas, in the South, and Oregon, in the West, are the other No.