Between senior Shayla Bennett and first-year Malu Tshitenge, it was a night of career highs for the North Carolina women's basketball team in its 85-54 win over the Buccaneers.
The North Carolina women’s basketball team defeated Charleston Southern, 85-54, in a game where two Tar Heels posted double-doubles and senior guard Taylor Koenen shot 4-9 from three.
Through the first two games of the season, the UNC women's basketball team has won by an average of 38.5 points per game under the guidance of new head coach Courtney Banghart.
Against a much smaller starting lineup, junior forward Janelle Bailey feasted on the undersized Navy players, scoring 20 points and grabbing 15 rebounds in an 80-40 win for the Tar Heels.
Junior forward Jaelynn Murray was sidelined for the season with a torn ACL in Saturday's exhibition game against Wingate. As center Janelle Bailey dropped 21 points against Western Carolina in her friend's No. 30 jersey, Murray cheered from sidelines, wiping tears from her eyes in the final minutes of Thursday's game.
The North Carolina women’s basketball team (1-0) breezed past Western Carolina (1-1) with a 92-55 victory Thursday night in its season debut featuring new head coach Courtney Banghart and five new players.
After the first winning season since 2014-2015, the North Carolina women's basketball team went through a major shift with the resignation of Sylvia Hatchell and the graduation of leading scorer Paris Kea and the transfer of three other players. See how the new team is shaping up underneath new head coach Courtney Banghart.
“Each game we have got to get a tiny bit better, and I thought tonight was our first start at that,” Banghart said.
The North Carolina women's basketball team started its season off with its first practice of the year. Find out what coach Courtney Banghart had to say about the state of the team before the start of the season.
Take a look at the upcoming slate for the Tar Heels in the first season of the Courtney Banghart era.
In 2007, Banghart was named the head coach of Princeton women's basketball, and quickly turned the program around. In her third season, the Tigers made their first ever NCAA Tournament appearance. In 2015, Banghart's team went undefeated in the regular season, and Banghart was named one of the Women's 50 Greatest Leaders by Fortune magazine. Now, Courtney Banghart is in Chapel Hill.
The Tar Heels will host seven games and face four in-state opponents as part of their non-conference schedule, the athletic department announced Thursday.
In the span of a month, the 33 year Sylvia Hatchell era at UNC came to an end.
The UNC athletic department announced the hiring of a new women's basketball assistant coach on Tuesday. The new hire, Carrie Moore, worked alongside incoming head basketball coach Courtney Banghart in the past, which Banghart said, made her better.
In her first news conference in Chapel Hill on Wednesday, Courtney Banghart stood, fittingly, on the hardwood at Carmichael Arena. It’s a floor she might as well start getting used to.
Princeton's Courtney Banghart will be the next head coach of the North Carolina women's basketball team, the UNC athletics department announced Tuesday in a statement.
After 18 days of investigation into alleged racist remarks made to her players in January, North Carolina women's basketball head coach Sylvia Hatchell has resigned from her position, the UNC athletic department announced late Thursday night.
The North Carolina women's basketball team received a boost for the 2019 season on Wednesday afternoon.
North Carolina women's basketball guard Paris Kea was selected No. 25 overall in the 2019 WNBA Draft on Wednesday night.
Stephanie Watts, Destinee Walker an Jocelyn Jones will all pursue transfers to other schools, as first reported by Mary Dunleavy at WRAL.
