Defining UNC Success in the NCAA Tournament - IC Daily | College Basketball
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
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| 0:04.2 | It is Tuesday, March 17th. I guess it's St. Patrick's Day. I don't have green. I don't own any green. I don't own any red. So apologize for that. That's Greg Barnes. I'm Tommy. Ashley, it's Johnny T-shirt and Johnny T-shirt.com. Is your sponsor for these shows. Please make sure you take care of them. as always take care of them because they take care of us and go to inside carolina |
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| 0:33.6 | now. |
| 0:34.5 | Greg, scroll at the bottom. |
| 0:36.2 | What is a successful NCAA tournament? And I think |
| 0:39.5 | to fully do this, we need to do what normally is a successful NCAA tournament for |
| 0:45.1 | North Carolina, and then what's a successful NCAA tournament for this specific team. |
| 0:50.3 | But I'll let you take it to start whichever way you want to go. |
| 0:54.4 | Well, I think just historically, Tommy, |
| 0:56.7 | North Carolina has been to 38 suite 16s as a program. |
| 1:04.2 | And actually, if you get into the technical term suite 16, |
| 1:08.9 | that was a designation NCAA applied in 1975 so in the past 50 years |
| 1:15.1 | Carolina has been to 31 sweet 16s so pretty clean 62% hit rate I think everybody |
| 1:24.6 | remembers Dean Smith was the standard bear, had 13 straight sweet 16s. |
| 1:30.3 | I guess that was from, what, 81, 393 before the upset to Boston College and the 94, around the 32. |
| 1:40.3 | So that's always kind of been the, you know, the threshold when people talk about North Carolina |
| 1:48.1 | basketball success. We've talked a lot about, you know, the importance of winning the regular |
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