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CHAPEL HILL — Paulina Paris’ silky-smooth jumper and driving ability were just what Carolina needed to break out of a four-game losing streak marked by shooting struggles. The freshman guard scored 11 of her season-high 16 points in the fourth quarter as the No. 22 Tar Heels earned a season-changing 60–50 victory over No. 4 Notre Dame on Sunday before a packed Carmichael Arena for their third consecutive home win over the Irish.
Carolina’s women keep battling until the end, but not enough shots are falling and the heartbreaking losses just keep coming. The No. 22 Tar Heels lost their fourth consecutive game and are 0–3 in the ACC for the third time in program history after falling 62–58 at Miami on Thursday night.
By R.L. Bynum After a pair of narrow losses to start the ACC season extended its losing streak to three, … More
Whenever Virginia Tech and North Carolina play in women’s basketball, you can count on an entertaining battle, foul trouble for both teams and, in most cases, hot shooting from the Hokies’ Georgia Amoore. All three happened Sunday as Amoore scored 24 points, including three free throws with 1.8 seconds left, as the No. 7 Hokies rallied from a late four-point deficit to beat the No. 13 Tar Heels 68–65 Sunday at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Va.
By R.L. Bynum CHAPEL HILL — On a wild night in ACC women’s basketball, No. 13 Carolina’s physical battle with … More
North Carolina fell seven spots to No. 13 in the AP Top 25 women’s poll after the Tar Heels’ 76–68 loss to Michigan in Charlotte on Tuesday. The drop ended the Tar Heels’ streak of top-10 rankings at five weeks, the longest since the 2014–15 season when they had a six-week streak in the 2014–15 season (No. 6 Dec. 1–15, No. 9 Dec. 22, 29 and No. 8 Jan. 5).
By R.L. Bynum CHARLOTTE — Carolina returned to that dangerous habit of giving up significant first-half deficits to ranked teams. … More
ARLOTTE — UNC point guard Deja Kelly is used to dishing out passes for buckets, but she did a little distributing this week with early Christmas gifts for the Carolina basketball family. One of Kelly’s many NIL deals is with Beats by Dre, and she took advantage of that relationship to gift headphones to every player and coach on UNC’s men’s and women’s basketball teams.
North Carolina returned to the No. 6 spot it held three weeks earlier in the AP Top 25 women’s basketball poll and is on the highest five-week poll run in 14 seasons. The Tar Heels (9–1), after three decisive non-conference home wins, are ranked No. 8 or higher for the fifth consecutive week for the first time since the program’s remarkable late 2000s run.
CHAPEL HILL — After a challenging 22 days between home games with three ranked opponents, No. 7 North Carolina returned to Carmichael Arena and dominated three overmatched non-conference opponents. The Tar Heels (9–1) trailed for 18 seconds and forced 58 turnovers in the three games as they tuned up before the schedule gets significantly more challenging. With the sort of dynamic guard play they got from Deja Kelly and Eva Hodgson on Friday, they’ll be more than up for the task.
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