2025 NCAA Tournament: Jay Williams rips decision to put North Carolina in bracket

One of the biggest surprises in Sunday’s 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket reveal was when North Carolina’s name showed up. The Tar Heels are heading to the First Four despite questions about their resume as a tournament team.

UNC was the last team in the field and will be a No. 11 seed if it wins in Dayton. The Tar Heels will take on San Diego State for a spot in the first round later this week.

However, ESPN’s Jay Williams wondered just how deserving Carolina was to make it. He pointed out issues with the Tar Heels’ resume, comparing it to that of West Virginia.

“To me, that’s my biggest takeaway from this whole thing is for North Carolina, I don’t know how they made the tournament and West Virginia didn’t make the tournament,” Williams said. “North Carolina had 11 opportunities to play against teams in the field. They only won one of those on a neutral court in December.

“They have four losses to teams that didn’t make the tournament. And you talk about a team like West Virginia who had six Quad 1 wins, they beat Iowa State, they beat Gonzaga when Gonzaga was No. 3 in the country. It [seems] like West Virginia is much more deserving to be in the tournament than North Carolina.”

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