The 11th-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels to silence their skeptics Tuesday night in Dayton with a matchup against No. 11 San Diego State in the First Four of the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

The Tar Heels lost to No. 1 Duke in the ACC Tournament semifinals, but have won eight of their past 10 games and are playing their best basketball of the season.

North Carolina -- which slotted in as the No. 46 overall seed -- had a higher NET Ranking (36) than West Virginia (51) or Indiana (54), but that didn’t stop a lot of fans from crying foul on social media in regards to Cunningham’s claim that he wasn’t in the room when the decision was made.