WBB Hosts Davidson Sunday At 6

Sunday, November 12

Chapel Hill

6 PM

North Carolina

Davidson

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Deja Kelly
University of North Carolina Women's Basketball v Gardner-Webb
Carmichael Arena
Chapel Hill, NC
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Deja Kelly and the Tar Heels are back in action at Carmichael on Sunday evening.

Photo by: AINSLEY E. FAUTH

November 11, 2023 | Women's Basketball

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The UNC women's basketball team returns to the Carmichael Arena court Sunday evening to host a second-straight in-state opponent, this one the Davidson Wildcats. Tipoff against the Wildcats, who are coming off a win over another Atlantic Coast Conference opponent, is 6 p.m.

The No. 16 Tar Heels (1-0) opened the season on Wednesday with a 102-49 win over Gardner-Webb. The Wildcats (2-0) beat Wake Forest 57-52 at home on Saturday.

Heels vs. Wildcats
Sunday's meeting is the fifth between North Carolina and Davidson and the first in more than a decade. The teams last met in the 2012-13 season opener, with UNC winning 70-59 at home on Nov. 9, 2012. The game was part of the Preseason WNIT
• Three of the four previous meetings have taken place in Chapel Hill.
• The first-ever matchup with Davidson came in UNC's first season of competition as a varsity sport under the umbrella of the Department of Athletics and is the only one to have been hosted by Davidson. That game, on Feb. 15, 1975, was UNC's 13th of the season and part of a 14-game winning streak to start the year. With coach Angela Lumpkin at the Carolina helm, UNC finished the year 15-3. (Women's basketball became a varsity program at UNC in 1971-72 but was part of the Physical Education Department until the 1974-75 season, when it became part of the Department of Athletics.)

Scouting the Wildcats
Davidson arrives in Chapel Hill as part of a busy stretch of competition against Atlantic Coast Conference teams. The Wildcats hosted Wake Forest on Saturday afternoon and earned a 57-52 victory. After the trip to Chapel Hill, the Wildcats will play at Duke on Thursday.
• Davidson opened the season on Nov. 7 at home against USC Upstate, winning 86-51. The team shot 50.9 percent from the field and were led in scoring by Virginia Tech transfer Charlise Dunn with 17 points.

Most recent action
UNC opened the season on Wednesday evening with a 102-49 win over Gardner-Webb. Six Tar Heels reached double-figure scoring and two – Alyssa Ustby and Indya Nivar – had double-doubles.
• Nivar hit a three from beyond half court to beat the first-quarter buzzer. It was her first three as a Tar Heel and ranked fifth on the following day's ESPN SportsCenter Top 10.
• Carolina improved to 5-0 in season openers under coach Courtney Banghart and 43-7 in program history. The win makes for Carolina's sixth consecutive 1-0 start.
• Carolina improved to 34-4 in regular season non-conference games under Banghart.

Superlative Start
• Wednesday's game marked the second time under coach Courtney Banghart and first time since Dec. 12, 2021 that the Tar Heels have scored 100 or more points. (The last was 107 vs. UNC Asheville).
• Carolina's 57 points in the second half matched the second half of the Nov. 29, 2020 win over High Point for the most in a half under Banghart.
• Carolina's 40-point third quarter is the Tar Heels' highest-scoring quarter of all-time. The previous best was 35 against South Carolina State on Dec. 3, 2020, also in the third quarter.
• Carolina's 28 second-chance points matched the program's single-game high under Banghart. The previous mark was Nov. 25, 2020 against Radford, in what was also a season-opening game.
• Carolina's 44 points off turnovers are the most in a game under Banghart, surpassing 42 against North Carolina A&T in the 2021-22 season opener.
• Indya Nivar recorded her first double-double with a career-best 17 points and 11 rebounds in her Carolina debut. She's the first Tar Heel to notch a double-double in her first career game at Carolina since Stephanie Mavunga in 2013 against Air Force.