Michigan basketball teams will double dip vs. North Carolina in Charlotte

The Michigan males’s basketball staff has performed North Carolina a lot not too long ago, it was solely proper to contain the ladies too.

Michigan and North Carolina will face off — in each males’s and girls’s hoops — within the inaugural Jumpman Invitational in Charlotte, North Carolina this winter. The announcement got here on Thursday (July 28).

The ladies will play on Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. ET. The lads will play the following night time on the similar time. All the occasion will happen on the Spectrum Middle, residence of the NBA’s Hornets. Florida and Oklahoma, the 2 different colleges to first signal partnership offers with the Jordan Model for basketball and soccer, are additionally collaborating. All video games will air on the ESPN networks.

Whereas the Michigan and North Carolina girls have met simply as soon as earlier than, in 1987, the lads have notable and up to date historical past. This can mark their fifth assembly over the previous six seasons. Along with three ACC/Huge Ten Problem matchups, they met within the Bahamas as a part of a match. They’ve cut up these video games.

The Michigan males are 4-5 all-time towards North Carolina, together with a loss within the 1993 NCAA championship sport, considered one of 4 NCAA Match conferences between the packages.

It had beforehand been reported that they’d meet on this occasion, which was introduced in July of 2021. Michigan confirmed that on Thursday, and added that the ladies would additionally tackle the Tar Heels.

All 4 packages had been profitable final season. On the lads’s facet, after uneven common seasons, Michigan reached the Candy 16 whereas North Carolina went all the way in which to the nationwide championship earlier than shedding to Kansas. On the ladies’s facet, the Wolverines reached the Elite Eight whereas the Tar Heels went to the Candy 16; each ultimately misplaced to No. 1 seeds.

Tickets for the Jumpman Invitational can be out there to the general public in late September.