| Mode: | Basketball |
| Year: | 1987–88 |
| Team: | North Carolina Tar Heels |
| Conference: | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| Short Conf: | ACC |
| Coachrank: | 7 |
| Aprank: | 7 |
| Record: | 27–7 |
| Conf Record: | 11–3 |
| Hc Year: | 26th |
| Ac1 Year: | 20th |
| Ac2 Year: | 10th |
| Ac3 Year: | 2nd |
| Champion: | ACC regular season champions |
| Bowl Result: | Elite Eight |
The 1987–88 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.[1]
Led by head coach Dean Smith, the Tar Heels completed yet another in a long line of impressive seasons, with an ACC Regular Season title, a top ten ranked team, and having reached all the way to the Elite Eight in the NCAA tournament. After the season, longtime assistant coach Roy Williams would depart to become head coach of that season's national championship, Kansas. Williams would eventually leave Kansas to become the head coach of the Tar Heels since 2003, Williams would win national Championships with the Tar Heels in 2005, 2009, and 2017, surpassing Smith as having the most national Championships at UNC with three.[2]
|-!colspan=9 style=| Non-conference Regular Season
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|-!colspan=9 style=| ACC Regular season|-!colspan=9 style=| ACC Tournament|-!colspan=9 style=| 1988 NCAA tournament
See main article: 1987–88 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.