The 2012âÂÂ13 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2012âÂÂ13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach was Roy Williams, who is in his 10th season as UNC's head men's basketball coach. They played their home games at the Dean E. Smith Center and were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 25âÂÂ11, 12âÂÂ6 in ACC play to finish in third place. They advanced to the championship game of the ACC tournament where they lost to Miami (FL). They received an at-large bid to the 2013 NCAA tournament where they defeated Villanova in the second round before, in the third round, having their season ended for the second consecutive year by Kansas.
Coach Williams adjusted his line-up starting with the game against Duke on 13 February 2013. He went with a smaller line-up with four guards and moved P.J. Hairston into the starting five.
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|- !colspan=12 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| Non-conference regular season
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|- !colspan=12 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| <span style="color:white">2013 ACC Tournament</span>
|- !colspan=12 style="background:#56A0D3; color:#FFFFFF;"| <span style="color:white">2013 NCAA Tournament</span>