The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team tips off its 2025-26 schedule against the BYU Cougars in a preseason exhibition game on Friday, Oct. 24 (7 p.m. ET, ESPN+ ), at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Matching up at the home arena of the NBA's Utah Jazz, a pair of projected top-10 picks in the 2026 NBA Draft headline the top-25 matchup between the 25th-ranked Tar Heels and eighth-ranked Cougars . Talented freshmen AJ Dybantsa and Caleb Wilson will be in the spotlight as two players expected to be among the best in the nation.

The game won't count against either team's record, but UNC is 5-0 in the all-time series against BYU . Four of those five games were played at a neutral location, including the Tar Heels ' win against the Cougars in the championship game of the 2

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