The first game of next season will be (drum roll, please): The defending national champion North Carolina Tar Heels against the Alcorn State Braves.

According to a source close to the situation, the game will take place as part of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic in Chapel Hill on Nov. 9.

However, Roy Williams' new-look Tar Heels (the ones with talented freshman big man John Henson) might be on the undercard to the college coaching debut of Isaiah Thomas.

Thomas and Florida International University will face Ohio State in Columbus - also in the Coaches vs. Cancer event - on Nov. 9.