{"id":126683,"date":"2025-08-07T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126683\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T15:40:13","slug":"unc-basketball-womens-non-conference-schedule-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126683\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC Basketball: Women\u2019s non-conference schedule released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ve gotten bits and pieces over the last couple weeks and months, but earlier this week, we finally got the full picture on the schedule for the 2025-26 North Carolina Tar Heels women\u2019s basketball season. On Tuesday, UNC released the complete non-conference schedule for this coming women\u2019s basketball season, which will include six home games, an away matchup in Greensboro, and a trip to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We already knew a good chunk of the slate, as the ACC\/SEC Challenge matchup against Texas, and the Heels\u2019 participation in the Cancun Challenge having already been announced. Adding to that, a set of games in Las Vegas, including a marquee matchup against potential national title contender UCLA in the WBCA Challenge, was also recently announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There weren\u2019t any more massively high profile games added to the schedule when it was fully announced on Tuesday, but we did get a slate of in-state matchups. The Tar Heels will be hosting North Carolina Central, Elon, UNC Greensboro, Boston University, UNC Wilmington, and Charleston Southern in Chapel Hill throughout the first half of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The most interesting addition to the schedule is a trip to Greensboro to take on North Carolina A&amp;T. The game is an away one as it will be held in A&amp;T\u2019s Corbett Sports Center home, although it seems likely that there will be a good chunk of Tar Heel fans in attendance for that one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Between a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarheelblog.com\/2025\/7\/31\/24477873\/unc-tar-heels-womens-basketball-preseason-exhibition-south-carolina-gamecocks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preseason exhibition matchup against South Carolin<\/a>a and now games against Texas and UCLA, UNC are not set to play three of last year\u2019s Final Four at some point this year. Add in their games against Columbia, Kansas State, and South Dakota State at the Cancun Challenge, a game against Fairfield as part of the aforementioned Las Vegas trip, and the newly announced UNCG, the Tar Heels will play seven teams that made last year\u2019s NCAA Tournament. Meanwhile, the ACC is a plenty stacked conference itself, having put seven teams besides the Tar Heels in the dance last year, so you\u2019ll be able to maybe even double that number once the conference schedule is announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ever since Courtney Banghart took the reins at UNC, the program has generally been on an upward trajectory. One thing that\u2019s come along with that is opportunities to test the Tar Heels against some of the big powers in the sport. They\u2019ve been more than willing to take those tests, and that\u2019s set to continue in the 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve gotten bits and pieces over the last couple weeks and months, but earlier this week, we finally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,51397,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-126683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-unc-basketball","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114988241700827782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}