By R.L. Bynum

North Carolina will play Georgia in a home-and-home men’s basketball series, meeting twice in the next three seasons.

When the Bulldogs visit the Smith Center on Nov. 13, 2026, it will mark the first meeting between the programs in more than two decades. Georgia announced the news on its athletics website Tuesday.

The Tar Heels, who have won the last four meetings, will visit Athens, Ga., in November or December of the 2028–29 season, the second trip to Stegeman Coliseum. No. 1 UNC won there 82–80 in overtime against an unranked Georgia team on Dec. 27, 1997.

The Tar Heels hold a 13–5 advantage in the all-time series, but No. 18 Georgia beat No. 8 UNC 82–77 in the 1983 NCAA East Regional final in Syracuse, N.Y., to earn the Bulldogs’ only Final Four appearance. That denied Michael Jordan and Carolina a shot at back-to-back national championships.

The season before that, James Worthy scored 19 points as the No. 2 Tar Heels beat the Bulldogs at the Greensboro Coliseum 66–57 on Feb. 14, 1982, a few weeks before beating Georgetown in New Orleans in the national championship game.

UNC has won all three meetings in the Smith Center, 99–91 on Nov. 20, 1988, 85–64 on Dec. 7, 1995, and 65–58 on Nov. 18, 1998, in the Preseason NIT, the last time the programs met.

Nine of the meetings came in the 1920s and 1930s, with UNC taking a 36–27 win on Feb. 1, 1918, at Bynum Gym in the first meeting.