UNC Women's College Basketball 2025-26 Season

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IllegalMotion9999

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Starting off the thread with a friendly reminder that the UNC women's hoops team plays tonight against UCLA at 9 pm est on ESPN.
Heels are 2-0 and ranked 11th. UCLA is ranked 3rd in the country. Bruins have Lauren Betts, who is like the WBB version of Mark Eaton.

Carolina may be without center Blanca Thomas, who has missed the first two games so Betts could really be a problem.

Worth checking out if you are not able to watch Drake light up the Jets secondary tonight.
 
IllegalMotion9999 said:
Starting off the thread with a friendly reminder that the UNC women's hoops team plays tonight against UCLA at 9 pm est on ESPN.
Heels are 2-0 and ranked 11th. UCLA is ranked 3rd in the country. Bruins have Lauren Betts, who is like the WBB version of Mark Eaton.

Carolina may be without center Blanca Thomas, who has missed the first two games so Betts could really be a problem.

Worth checking out if you are not able to watch Drake light up the Jets secondary tonight.
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with the YTTV/Disney standoff ongoing, i would love to know exactly who is in the demographic that does not have access to Amazon Prime but does have access to ESPN broadcasts, lol

UCLA are favored by double digits, which definitely isn't helped by the fact that UNC hasn't started the season fully healthy. this team minus Reniya Kelly and Blanca Thomas probably doesn't quite have the juice to challenge that upper echelon of the sport. but unlike on the men's side, the women will have plenty of opportunities for quality wins in conference play, so this can be treated more like a tune-up than a near must-win like the Kansas game was for the guys
 
IllegalMotion9999 said:
Starting off the thread with a friendly reminder that the UNC women's hoops team plays tonight against UCLA at 9 pm est on ESPN.
Heels are 2-0 and ranked 11th. UCLA is ranked 3rd in the country. Bruins have Lauren Betts, who is like the WBB version of Mark Eaton.

Carolina may be without center Blanca Thomas, who has missed the first two games so Betts could really be a problem.

Worth checking out if you are not able to watch Drake light up the Jets secondary tonight.
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Better the WBB’s version of Mark Eaton than Lew Alcindor.
 
But it already feels like offense is too easy for them/too hard for UNC. And we are three point happy while they shoot from 4 feet or closer.

Still, 12-12 with about 90 seconds left in the first quarter.
 
nycfan said:
But it already feels like offense is too easy for them/too hard for UNC. And we are three point happy while they shoot from 4 feet or closer.
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Yep, long way to go but to me this game looks like it could be a reminder of how women’s college basketball is still very much stratified at the very top. Teams at that level like UCLA are just in a clear class above even really good teams like UNC.
 
Weird detail - UNC played nine players in the first half and everyone of them scored at least two points (high scorer has 8). Also, 8 of 9 has taken at least one three. Unfortunately we are only 5-19 3FG.
 
Welp, being the jump shooting team against the layup shooting team has started to catch up with the Heels in the third quarter. Down 10
 
Oh well. Brutal last 12 minutes of game time for the Heels but UCLA is a helluva team. Just frustrating that we don’t seem to be inching toward breaking into that elite level …
 
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