With less than a minute and a half left in the first half, the North Carolina women’s basketball team had yet to break away from Kennesaw State and the two were deadlocked at 30.
Read More »In discussing the talented crop of freshmen at her disposal this season, North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell likes to point out that her rookies have the kind of winner’s mentality that can help carry UNC deep in postseason play.
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A dominant scorer has yet to emerge for the No. 19 North Carolina women’s basketball team.
Read More »At the start of every basketball season, it’s common for a top program to schedule up-and-coming teams to gauge its position before it enters the tougher slate of conference games. This year is no different for the UNC women’s basketball team. No. 20 North Carolina (2-0) got off to an expected good start, handling Gardner-Webb (0-1) 109-44 on Saturday and University of South Carolina Upstate (0-2) 91-34 on Sunday at Carmichael Arena.
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The last time Carson-Newman played North Carolina, Italee Lucas was still dropping threes from outside the arc, and fellow senior Jessica Breland was still racking up rebounds on the inside.
Read More »Despite hosting a playoff-caliber team last season, Carmichael Arena wasn’t quite as populated as Sylvia Hatchell had hoped it would be.
Read More »After North Carolina’s 72-65 Sweet 16 loss to Stanford last March, the women’s basketball team was left with more than one gaping hole.
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The North Carolina men’s basketball team has been hyped since it was announced in April that all five starters would be returning to Chapel Hill for the 2011-12 season. But Friday at the Dean Smith Center, the newest Tar Heel squad will take the court for the first time together.
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As Charlotte Smith transitions into her new role as head women’s basketball coach at Elon University, she knows her old head coach and No. 1 mentor is only a short drive away.
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In Monday’s WNBA Draft, Jessica Breland was selected 13th overall by the Minnesota Lynx before being traded to the New York Liberty. UNC guard Italee Lucas was selected by the Tulsa Shock as the 21st overall pick.
Read More »At halftime of the North Carolina women’s basketball team’s NCAA regional semifinal game against first-seeded Stanford, UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell made the fifth-seeded Tar Heels a promise. “I challenged them if they would win the boards in the second half that we’d win the game,” Hatchell said.
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The Tar Heels outrebounded the Cardinal 50-47 on Saturday in the Spokane Arena.After a hard-fought game that featured 12 tie scores and nine lead changes, UNC’s 2010-11 campaign came to a crashing halt when Stanford won the Sweet 16 match-up, 72-65.
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When the North Carolina women’s basketball team plays Stanford on Saturday in the third round of the NCAA tournament, there will be more on the line than just a coveted spot in the Elite Eight. A win against the top-seeded Cardinal would give three Tar Heel seniors just a little more time in the North Carolina jersey.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In the second round of the NCAA tournament, it was all about tempo for North Carolina’s women’s basketball team. After a back-and-forth battle with Kentucky, the Tar Heels found immediate success with transition scoring in The Pit — and ran with it.
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Fresno State’s women’s basketball team opened its first-round NCAA tournament game against North Carolina with a swish from a 3-pointer.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As expected, Fresno State’s women’s basketball team opened its first-round NCAA tournament game against North Carolina with a 3-point swish. Fresno State’s perimeter-frenzied offense, which leads the nation in 3-pointers per game, fired 50 shots from beyond-the-arc to keep the Bulldogs (25-8) competitive against the No.
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The North Carolina women’s basketball team will begin the NCAA Tournament on Saturday in Albuquerque, N.M., where the No. 5 seeded Tar Heels will take on No. 12 Fresno State.
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The No. 14 North Carolina women’s basketball team got off to a quick start against Kennesaw State on Sunday afternoon and never looked back. Despite being a blowout, Sunday’s game was an emotional one for the UNC seniors, as it was their last chance to play in Carmichael Arena.
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GREENSBORO – After playing four games in four days, the UNC women’s basketball team simply didn’t have enough left in the tank down the stretch against Duke, losing 81-66 in the ACC Tournament championship game.
Read More »The North Carolina women’s basketball team outlasted a physical Florida State team to win 78-65 in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament.
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