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.
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The North Carolina women’s basketball team outlasted a physical Florida State team to win 78-65 in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament.
Read More »GREENSBORO — In her last regular season game against Duke on Sunday, senior Jessica Breland was shut down. An 0-for-6 performance left the forward frazzled and her team wanting more from its most experienced leader. But in the first round of UNC’s title quest on Thursday, Breland showed exactly why she deserved her long-awaited return to the starting lineup.
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GREENSBORO — The North Carolina women’s basketball team put one foot on the road toward a record 10th ACC title in style Thursday, defeating Clemson 78-64 in the first round of the ACC Tournament.
Read More »Standing beneath the shadows of the Carmichael Arena jumbotron, senior women’s basketball players Cetera DeGraffenreid and Italee Lucas stand with their arms around each other.
Read More »For the first time in four games, North Carolina outshot its opponent at the line, but points from the stripe were not enough to end the Tar Heels’ losing streak. Despite going 73 percent, the Tar Heels fell to Duke 66-58.
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After a 66-58 loss to No. 9 Duke on Sunday, the North Carolina women’s basketball team wiped its slate clean. As the Blue Devils cut down the nets on senior night and celebrated a split regular season ACC title with Miami, the No. 13 Tar Heels (22-7, 8-6 ACC) assessed the game’s strengths and immediately set their focus on the upcoming ACC Tournament.
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The No. 13 North Carolina women’s basketball team is wondering what has gone wrong as they head toward the end of the season on a slide. Thursday night at home, the Tar Heels lost their third straight game, 64-57 to Georgia Tech.
Read More »When Georgia Tech’s women’s basketball team converted an inbound pass into an easy layup on Thursday, North Carolina point guard Cetera DeGraffenreid assumed her normal routine.
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In a night of miserable shooting for UNC, North Carolina fell to the Wolfpack 88-72. While the rest of the Tar Heels struggled to put points on the board, White’s career-high and team-leading 20 game points was a highlight amidst the disappointment.
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RALEIGH — After a competitive 10-minute start by the North Carolina women’s basketball team against N.C. State on Monday, the No. 13 Tar Heels’ defense collapsed in the paint. Shot after shot in the post followed by a pair of back-to-back 3-pointers quickly turned into a 21-0 run by the Wolfpack (12-15, 3-9 ACC) during the first half, leading to an 88-72 victory for unranked N.C. State in Reynolds Coliseum.
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It was a game of threes Sunday in Carmichael Arena as the North Carolina women’s basketball team faced Miami. But they weren’t exactly falling from the hands of the Tar Heels in their 78-66 loss to the Hurricanes.
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Playing defense against Duke’s top scorer for the season, senior Jasmine Thomas, Ruffin-Pratt finished second in boards for the night and first in leadership and aggression.
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As the clock wound down in Carmichael Arena and the North Carolina women’s basketball team led Duke by just two, the Blue Devils drove down the court in a last-ditch effort to tie the score. Duke’s Chelsea Gray, who had already picked up a season-high 20 points, attempted a buzzer-beating layup.
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The players off the bench were the difference makers for the University of North Carolina women’s basketball team this weekend. UNC opened its slate against Virginia and Virginia Tech without two of its regular starters, forwards Jessica Breland and Chay Shegog.
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For the North Carolina women’s basketball team, this weekend of ACC matchups was about more than earning two conference victories. It was about taking down an entire state. The No. 15 Tar Heels took an easy 64-52 victory against Virginia on Friday and matched it with a 76-51 win against Virginia Tech on Sunday.
Read More »Spurred by junior She’La White, the North Carolina women’s basketball team fought back Virginia’s quick lead in Carmichael on Friday. Back-to-back treys from the guard’s hot hands propelled No. 15 UNC into a momentum-changing run that eventually led the Tar Heels to a 64-52 victory.
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The North Carolina women’s basketball team knows what it’s like to play without Jessica Breland. After missing all of last season, the senior forward and versatile leader could be out of commission for 10 or more days with a knee injury. But this time, Breland’s teammates know exactly how to deal with her absence.
Read More »Without senior Jessica Breland — who sat out Sunday’s game due to shifting floating bodies in her kneecap — the No. 10 North Carolina women’s basketball team struggled to counter a physical and well-sized Maryland defense in its 88-65 loss to the No. 15 Terrapins.
Read More »COLLEGE PARK, Md. — For the third game in a row, the North Carolina women’s basketball team was routinely beaten to the basket. But for Maryland, rebounding seemed as easy as a Sunday stroll. The Tar Heels fell 88-65 to the Terrapins in College Park on Sunday, and coach Sylvia Hatchell needed to look at only one stat column to determine why.
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