UNC Women's Basketball

Complete coverage of North Carolina Tar Heels Women's Basketball.

UNC Women's Basketball Headed To 2025 Cancun Challenge

With the 2025-26 UNC Women's Basketball schedule coming together, the Tar Heels are grabbing their passports for another trip out of the country as they head to the 2025 Cancun Challenge. North Carolina will face Columbia, Kansas State, and South Dakota State in a three-game round-robin format Nov. 27-29 in the challenges' Mayan Tournament. (GoHeels.com)

Bigger Than Basketball, Sydney Barker Traveling To Vietnam With Coach For College

UNC women's basketball player Sydney Barker has spent most of her summer in Chapel Hill between class, the gym, the weight room, and assisting with summer basketball camps. With a reprieve coming soon, Barker will travel to Vietnam for three weeks to join Coach for College and run summer camps at schools in rural areas throughout the country. (GoHeels.com)

UNC Women's Basketball Excelling In The Classroom, Named WBCA Academic Top 25 Special Mention

UNC Women's Basketball has earned the distinction from the Women's Basketball Coaches Association as a 2024-25 Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll Special Mention. Boasting a 3.53 grade point average as a team during the 2024-25 academic year, Carolina was one of 55 women's basketball programs honored with a GPA of 3.5 or above. (GoHeels.com)

Alyssa Ustby puts up big numbers, leads team to runner-up finish at FIBA 3×3 event

Alyssa Ustby delivered standout performances throughout the FIBA 3x3 Series Bucharest Stop, helping lead Seattle 3XBA to the championship game Sunday before falling short against a tough Azerbaijan squad. On a challenging Sunday, Ustby and fellow Tar Heel Carlie Littlefield led Seattle to a spot in the championship game in Romania. (Tar Heel Tribune)

Alyssa Ustby, Carlie Littlefield put unbeaten Seattle 3 wins away from 3×3 title in Romania

It’s on to the quarterfinals for Alyssa Ustby, Carlie Littlefield, and the Seattle 3XBA team at the FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series in Bucharest, Romania. Led by those two former UNC Women's Basketball standouts, Seattle cruised through Pool D Saturday with dominant wins, 21-8 over Benin and 21-11 over the Philippines, to improve to 4-0 in the tournament. (Tar Heel Tribune)

Alyssa Ustby stars as 3-on-3 team advances in Romanian tournament

Wearing No. 23, Alyssa Ustby and fellow Tar Heel Carlie Littlefield led Seattle 3XBA to a pair of blowout victories Friday at the FIBA 3-on-3 Bucharest 2025 tournament. In the second victory, 21-8 over host Kazakhstan, Ustby put on a Jordanesque performance, scoring 11 of Seattle’s points after her team won its Group B opener 21-5 over Bucharest. (Tar Heel Tribune)

Former UNC Women's Basketball Standouts Team Up For Seattle 3XBA

As women's 3x3 basketball takes rise globally, former Tar Heel standouts Carlie Littlefield and Alyssa Ustby are in on the action, joining the Seattle 3XBA Team for the FIBA 3x3 Women's Series in Bucharest, Romania this weekend. 3XBA launched in 2024 to provide opportunities on the women's FIBA 3x3 Tour as the game of 3x3 grows at a rapid rate. (GoHeels.com)

Lexi Donarski discusses choosing basketball over business - for now

Lexi Donarski, who collected a number of conference honors while playing at Iowa State (2020-23) and North Carolina (2023-25), is about to begin her professional basketball career in Hungary for TFSE-MTK. Before that happens, she talked about being coached by her dad, getting her MBA, and choosing basketball over a career in business, at least for now. (Swish Appeal)

Alyssa Ustby to begin professional basketball career in Italy

Alyssa Ustby will begin her professional basketball career with the Panthers Roseto in Roseto, Italy. The team competes in the Lega Basket Femminile (LBF), Italy’s premier league for women’s basketball. Ustby finished an outstanding five-year career at UNC as the program’s all-time leading rebounder with 1,251, which is third on the all-time ACC list. (Tar Heel Tribune)

UNC Women's Basketball: A Look at Five-Star Freshman Nyla Brooks

Five-star Nyla Brooks, a McDonald's All-American, will play for Courtney Banghart and the UNC Women's Basketball program this season, alongside fellow freshmen Taliyah Henderson and Taissa Queiroz. Brooks averaged 18.3 points and 7.6 rebounds per game during her senior season and was ranked as the No. 13 overall recruit in the Class of 2025. (Sports Illustrated)

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