The 1987âÂÂ88 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Led by head coach Dean Smith, the Tar Heels won the ACC regular season title, reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament, and achieved a top-ten final ranking in the AP poll. After the season, longtime assistant coach Roy Williams would depart to become head coach of that season's national championship winners, the Kansas Jayhawks. Williams would eventually leave Kansas in 2003 to become the head coach of the Tar Heels and win national titles in 2005, 2009, and 2017.
|- !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference Regular Season
|- !colspan=9 style=| ACC Regular season
|- !colspan=9 style=| Non-conference Regular season
|- !colspan=9 style=| ACC Regular season
|- !colspan=9 style=| <span style=>ACC Tournament</span>
|- !colspan=9 style=| <span style=>1988 NCAA tournament</span>