The 2015–16 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

The Tar Heels played their home games at the Dean Smith Center and were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

In a matchup against fellow ACC foe, Syracuse, the Tar Heels won easily to advance to the National Championship against Villanova.

They advanced to the championship game of the ACC tournament where they lost to Notre Dame.

[2] They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament where they defeated Harvard and Arkansas before losing in the Sweet Sixteen to eventual National Runner-Up Wisconsin.