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UNC loses second straight conference game against Miami

By Anna Kim | February 5

Before Thursday’s game against Miami, coach Sylvia Hatchell emphasized to her players the importance of a win.After an 80-69 loss, North Carolina (16-5) ...

UNC guard Italee Lucas attempts to track down a loose ball in the Tar Heels’ 83-73 loss to Florida State. DTH/Phong Dinh

Tar Heels fall to Seminoles in women's basketball

By Anna Kim | February 2

Coach Sylvia Hatchell began to list off a series of outstanding records held by her team. Fifty-one wins out of the last 52 games played in Chapel Hill. ...

Italee Lucas made up for a poor first half with 28 second-half points to lead North Carolina to victory. DTH/Phong Dinh

Italee Lucas, Heels battle back in win against N.C. State

By Chris Hempson | January 26

RALEIGH — North Carolina entered Reynolds Coliseum on its most successful stretch ever against N.C. State. A staggering 17 of the past 19 contests had ...

UNC’s Waltiea Rolle filled up the box score with a monster second half. DTH/Phong Dinh

Rolle helps women secure win against State

By Louie Horvath | January 26

RALEIGH — Chay Shegog was little more than a bystander in Monday’s game against N.C. State.After picking up her fourth foul shortly after halftime ...

UNC point guard Cetera DeGraffenreid drives toward the basket in UNC’s 79-61 win against Clemson on Friday. DTH/BJ Dworak

UNC women hold off Clemson with second-half run

By Louie Horvath | January 25

It took the North Carolina women’s basketball team seven minutes to turn a barnburner into a blowout Friday night.Down by a point with 7:08 left in ...

UNC women's basketball players growing into leaders

By Jonathan Jones | January 25

The official stats show Clemson’s Keyrra Gillespie had eight assists Friday night against North Carolina.To UNC’s Italee Lucas, she had nine.

UNC’s Cetera DeGraffenreid has her shot readjusted by Maryland’s Diandra Tchatchouang. DTH/Will Cooper

DeGraffenreid uses second half to get on track

By Chris Hempson | January 19

Ten days ago against Connecticut, North Carolina point guard Cetera DeGraffenreid managed four points on 14 percent shooting.Five days later against Virginia ...

Post play sends UNC past Terps

By Anna Kim | January 19

With her team coming off two consecutive road losses, North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell decided it was time for some changes.She ...

UNC's Cetera DeGraffenreid (22) struggled against the Hokies, scoring only five points on 1-11 shooting. She turned the ball ove

Hokies gobble up Tar Heels

By Louie Horvath | January 15

BLACKSBURG, VA – After the first half, the North Carolina’s women’s basketball team could have counted itself lucky to only be losing by four to ...

UNC’s defense collapses vs. UConn

By David Reynolds | January 11

Watching from the bench during No. 1 Connecticut’s decisive 23-0 first-half run against her team, North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell started begging ...

Center Tina Charles shot strong from the start, sinking all 25 of her points in the first half. Courtesy of The Daily Campus.

UNC humbled by No. 1 Connecticut

By Anna Kim | January 11

With an 88-47 rout of North Carolina, UConn elevated its winning legacy to the forefront of women’s college basketball. But UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell ...

UNC stings Yellow Jackets in ACC opener

By Anna Kim | January 6

North Carolina guard Italee Lucas had only a few words to describe her 23-point first-half performance against Georgia Tech Wednesday.

Women's hoops defeats Radford

By Kelly Parsons | December 9

Radford (1-6) recovered from a five minute drought by sinking five straight shots from behind the arc to take a 17-16 lead halfway through the first ...

UNC backcourt shines in win

By Chris Hempson | December 8

The plays have become almost predictable. In a game like any other, on a Tuesday night like any other, Cetera DeGraffenreid and Italee Lucas faced Radford ...

DeGraffenreid leads women’s basketball to victory

By Mark Thompson | December 7

Late Saturday night, while North Carolina’s Cetera DeGraffenreid talked with Centhya Hart — a former teammate now playing at St. John’s — Hart ...

Guard Italee Lucas scored 17 points and grabbed two rebounds.

UNC rebounds with sloppy win

By Chris Hempson | December 7

Even with Italee Lucas scoring North Carolina’s first eight points, the UNC coaching staff wanted more.In fact, after Lucas passed up a wide-open three-point ...

UNC secures narrow victory

By Anna Kim | November 30

When players from Charleston Southern arrive at practice, they invoke some familiar names. “When our players come in, they talk about, I’m (Cetera) ...

Charleston Southern’s three-point shooters impress UNC

By Kelly Parsons | November 29

When Charleston Southern took on No. 4 North Carolina, the Tar Heels ended the day with a 76-67 victory. But CSU didn’t leave the Smith Center empty ...

Junior Cetera DeGraffenreid paced North Carolina with 20 points. She added eight assists and eight steals. DTH/Will Cooper

Second-half run propels Tar Heels

By Jonathan Jones | November 19

When Coastal Carolina went up 20-19 in the first half against North Carolina, the lead change was all the impetus Cetera DeGraffenreid needed.The junior ...

Sophomore Laura Broomfield saw extensive action against College of Charleston. DTH/B.J. Dworak

New starters pace Tar Heels

By Anna Kim | November 16

Like last year, North Carolina entered its season opener with the title of preseason ACC favorites. Less familiar were some of the names defending it.The ...