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Sylvia Hatchell returns home from hospital

By Madison Way | November 7

After nearly a month at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell went home Thursday afternoon. ...

Freshman Allisha Gray stands out in exhibition win

By Dylan Howlett | November 5

There’s Allisha Gray, a former player of the year in high school, missing a meaningless shot in an exhibition game that her North Carolina women’s ...

Women's Basketball Exhibtion Game vs. Wingate on Tuesday November 5th

Women's basketball bests Bulldogs in exhibition

By Madison Way | November 5

In the No. 12 North Carolina women’s basketball team’s second exhibition game of the season, a strong inside presence helped the team defeat Wingate ...

DeShields, freshmen standout in women's basketball exhibition

By Daniel Wilco | October 30

At 34-10, the score was still relatively close. Relatively.

Women’s basketball downs Eagles

By Grace Raynor | October 30

It was a simple desire she had held onto from her hospital bed, made public through her Twitter account about two and a half hours before the North Carolina ...

Hatchell at forefront of young Tar Heels’ minds

By Aaron Dodson | October 21

Since being diagnosed with leukemia two weeks before the start of the season, not everything for Sylvia Hatchell has changed.

Calder called up in Hatchell’s absence

By Daniel Wilco | October 15

As he sat in the pressroom at Carmichael Arena, he was asked to recall when he found out that Sylvia Hatchell, his co-worker of 28 years, had been diagnosed ...

Sylvia Hatchell, UNC’s women’s basketball coach, announced her temporary leave from coaching duties in the fall.

Sylvia Hatchell steps back coaching to battle leukemia

By Brooke Pryor | October 14

Only a month removed from her induction into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell announced she ...

North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell was selected to the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Class of 2013.

Hatchell diagnosed with leukemia, taking temporary leave from coaching

By Brooke Pryor | October 14

North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell is stepping away from her on-the-court coaching duties after being diagnosed with leukemia. ...

Former Tar Heel Ivory Latta returns for coaching job

By Sarah Brown | July 17

North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell remembers when a seventh-grader named Ivory Latta caught her eye at a UNC summer basketball ...

Sylvia Hatchell heading to Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame

By Jonathan LaMantia | April 9

Growing up in Gastonia, North Carolina, women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell was the only girl on the playground, playing pickup games against boys ...

N’Dea Bryant hugs Tierra Ruffin-Pratt after the UNC Women’s basketball team lost to Delaware in the second round of the NCAA tournament on Tuesday night.

North Carolina women’s basketball season ended in second round

By Henry Gargan | March 27

NEWARK, Del. — In contrast to the piercingly loud arena they had just left, the silence of the usually animated Sylvia Hatchell and her North Carolina ...

UNC's Megan Buckland(3) and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt(44) defend against Albany's Lindsey Lowrie(10)

Tar Heels to face Delaware phenom

By Henry Gargan | March 25

NEWARK, Del. — On Sunday, the Bob Carpenter Center, where sixth-seeded Delaware matched up against 11-seed West Virginia, was deafeningly loud.

Tierra Ruffin-Pratt(44) dribbles past Margarita Rosario(3) of Albany.

UNC women's basketball escapes upset against Albany in ?rst round

By Henry Gargan | March 24

After the North Carolina women’s basketball team’s 59-54 first-round NCAA victory against Albany, coach Sylvia Hatchell said her team entered the ...

Krista Gross, 21, takes a shot against Duke in the ACC Tournament championship game. Gross scored eight points in UNC’s 92-73 loss.

UNC women's basketball eager to make NCAA Tournament run

By Henry Gargan | March 21

This time last year, North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell and the NCAA were on poor terms. But as UNC heads into its first-round ...

Tar Heels earn No. 3 seed

By Jonathan LaMantia | March 18

After missing the NCAA Tournament in 2012, the North Carolina women’s basketball team was awarded a No. 3 seed in the Bridgeport, Conn., regional Monday. ...

Latifah Coleman (2) of the North Carolina Tar Heels takes a shot over Haley peters (33) of the Duke Blue Devils

UNC women's basketball falls to Duke in ACC title game

By Jonathan LaMantia | March 17

To get to the ACC title game, No. 3 seed North Carolina overcame a 14-point halftime deficit against No. 2 seed Maryland — the second largest comeback ...

Coleman leads UNC to ACC final with career performance

By Jonathan LaMantia | March 10

GREENSBORO — Trailing by 14 at halftime, the third-seeded North Carolina women’s basketball team needed a jolt to beat No.

Tierra Ruffin-Pratt (44) takes a shot over Kristen Doherty (21) of the Boston College Eagles.

Ruffin-Pratt takes over for UNC against Eagles

By Henry Gargan | March 9

North Carolina forwards Waltiea Rolle and Xylina McDaniel were being double- and triple-teamed in the paint.

UNC Guard Tierra Ruffin-Pratt (44) makes a lay up over Florida State Forward Chelsea Davis (34).

UNC women’s basketball looks for deep ACC run

By Jonathan LaMantia | March 8

Last season, the North Carolina women’s basketball season was knocked out of the ACC Tournament in the quarterfinals by Georgia Tech and subsequently ...