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FILE – The North Carolina mascot Ramses is shown during the first half of a first-round men’s NCAA college basketball tournament game in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, March 19, 2009. Men’s college basketball traditional powers Kansas and North Carolina will play each other in regular-season games in 2024 and 2025. The first meeting will be Nov. 8, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
FILE – The Kansas mascot performs with the cheerleaders during the first half of a Southwest regional semifinal game in the NCAA college basketball tournament Friday, March 25, 2011, in San Antonio. Men’s college basketball traditional powers Kansas and North Carolina will play each other in regular-season games in 2024 and 2025. The first meeting will be Nov. 8, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
FILE – The North Carolina mascot Ramses is shown during the first half of a first-round men’s NCAA college basketball tournament game in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, March 19, 2009. Men’s college basketball traditional powers Kansas and North Carolina will play each other in regular-season games in 2024 and 2025. The first meeting will be Nov. 8, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
FILE – The North Carolina mascot Ramses is shown during the first half of a first-round men’s NCAA college basketball tournament game in Greensboro, N.C., Thursday, March 19, 2009. Men’s college basketball traditional powers Kansas and North Carolina will play each other in regular-season games in 2024 and 2025. The first meeting will be Nov. 8, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)
FILE – The Kansas mascot performs with the cheerleaders during the first half of a Southwest regional semifinal game in the NCAA college basketball tournament Friday, March 25, 2011, in San Antonio. Men’s college basketball traditional powers Kansas and North Carolina will play each other in regular-season games in 2024 and 2025. The first meeting will be Nov. 8, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
FILE – The Kansas mascot performs with the cheerleaders during the first half of a Southwest regional semifinal game in the NCAA college basketball tournament Friday, March 25, 2011, in San Antonio. Men’s college basketball traditional powers Kansas and North Carolina will play each other in regular-season games in 2024 and 2025. The first meeting will be Nov. 8, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas.(AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
Men’s college basketball traditional powers Kansas and North Carolina will play each other in regular-season games in 2024 and 2025, the schools announced Monday.
The first meeting will be Nov. 8, 2024, in Lawrence, Kansas, and the second Nov. 14, 2025, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
The teams will square off for the first time since Kansas beat the Tar Heels 72-69 in the 2022 NCAA title game in New Orleans.
Kansas has won four straight in the series, all in the NCAA Tournament under coach Bill Self. The teams have split 12 games since they first met in the 1957 national championship game.
Kansas’ 2,385 all-time wins are the most in college basketball history. North Carolina ranks third with 2,347 wins. The teams have combined for 10 national titles.
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