The annual series between Kentucky and North Carolina may not continue due to the expansion of the SEC and ACC.

The nonconference schedule will be squeezed as teams can only play 27 games plus a multi-team tournament during the regular season.

“You’ve got to say to yourself now, you’ve got Syracuse and Pitt, those are pretty big heavyweights,’’ said UNC senior associate athletic director Larry Gallo, who works with UNC coach Roy Williams on scheduling. “Are we going to play them twice, are we going to play them once, who are you going to play away? That still all has to be worked out. 

“Then you’ve got to add in two games against Duke, [NC] State, the rest of the ACC. The [holiday] tournaments usually have some pretty good competition … and we’re in the first year of a four-year contract with Texas. You want to keep playing games like Kentucky … but do you want to schedule anything any heavier?”