The Daily Tar Heel’s Aaron Dodson and Daniel Wilco caught up with UNC women's basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell, talking about her role on the team during her battle with leukemia, the Stanford game plan, associate head coach Andrew Calder’s performance and freshman Diamond DeShields.
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Freshman guard Allisha Gray makes a comment about “getting buckets” to silence what will likely be a raucous crowd in Maples Pavilion tonight as Stanford will enjoy a home-court crowd. Stephanie Mavunga and Xylina McDaniel burst into laughter. A few minutes later, a reporter sneezes in the middle of McDaniel answering a serious question. “Bless you,’’ she says without a hitch. The laughter continues.
Read More »STANFORD, Calif. — Brittany Rountree was 19 years old, the clock paused at 12.7 seconds and the North Carolina women’s basketball team was clinging to a two-point lead when she made her way to the free throw line.
Read More »It hurts, North Carolina forward Xylina McDaniel said.
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Diamond DeShields sat on the North Carolina bench, watching. With 15 minutes left in the NCAA Tournament second-round game, her Tar Heels were leading Michigan State by 18 points.
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Xylina McDaniel broke her team’s single-file line in the tunnel of Carmichael Arena minutes before the game.
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Diamond DeShields is glad it's over.
Read More »Her first NCAA tournament game. Her first time playing since being named espnW’s National Freshman of the Year .But it was her third.
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There’s a game that isn’t recorded by a box score.
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Even after 14 days without a game, nothing changed in the North Carolina women’s basketball team’s mechanical practice regiment.
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Monday evening North Carolina women’s basketball freshman Diamond DeShields sat with her teammates, watching the NCAA Tournament selection show full of hope and bewilderment.
Read More »The stage for what many deem the nation’s fiercest rivalry was set.
Read More »GREENSBORO — Twice this season the No. 13 North Carolina women’s basketball team entered the locker room after the final buzzer sounded in its games against Duke having won two battles — the one that was the game and the one on the boards.
Read More »GREENSBORO – The game-tying 3-pointer went in, and then it didn’t.
Read More »GREENSBORO — Entering the North Carolina women’s basketball team’s matchup against No. 8 Maryland, all of the focus was on the showdown between ACC Freshman of the Year Diamond DeShields and three-time ACC Player of the Year Alyssa Thomas.
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GREENSBORO — Brittany Rountree, 5-foot-9, scoreless and confident, toed the white line 12 feet from the basket.
Read More »GREENSBORO — North Carolina knew they were coming. They had been, should we say, lights-out for the season’s first 30 games.
Read More »Multiple obstacles stand in the way of a team winning the prestigious ACC tournament. And the North Carolina women’s basketball took the first step Thursday with a 69-65 win against Wake Forest at the Greensboro Coliseum.
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Megan Buckland stands at the top of the key, just inches behind the 3-point line. It’s where she’s the most dangerous, her 3-point shooting is her main form of assault on opposing teams. She holds the ball as she’s likely done a million times before, eyeing the rim and sizing up her shot.
Read More »“There’s other things that Diamond can do,” said Diamond DeShields. About herself.
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