Hubert Davis' fourth UNC basketball team popped up just outside the top 25 in this season's debut NET Rankings, a metric to evaluate squads for the NCAA Tournament, released on Monday morning. The Tar Heels (4-3, 0-0 ACC), who left Maui last week on a two-game losing skid, appear at No. 26.

North Carolina had a rough last week losing two of three games in the Maui Invitational after beating Hawai'i earlier that weekend. Despite even the one win against Dayton, they still trailed by double-digits in the first half.

But as many Tar Heel supporters feared back in the spring, the presences of Washington and Lubin, effectively serving as the program's only offseason addition with any shot of replacing legendary UNC basketball double-double producer Armando Bacot, just haven't been sufficient against big-time foes with giant-sized weapons.