CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The North Carolina women’s basketball team plays on Sunday for its fifth win in a row, hosting Georgia Tech at Carmichael Arena for a 4 p.m. tipoff.
Tickets are available here. The game will air live on ACC Network.
No. 17 UNC comes into the game 13-5 overall and 4-3 in Atlantic Coast Conference play after winning its last four in a row, with three of those wins coming over ranked teams. Most recently the Tar Heels beat No. 13 Duke 61-56 at home on Thursday.
Georgia Tech is 10-9 overall and 1-7 in ACC play coming off its first conference win of the season on Thursday against Syracuse.
Carolina is celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Sunday, with young girls and boys invited to attend the game following a clinic with the UNC women’s teams.
Tar Heels vs Yellow Jackets
UNC and Georgia Tech are meeting for the 82nd time in a series that dates back to the 1979-80 season. The Tar Heels lead 60-21 overall after Georgia Tech took last year’s matchup. Prior to that UNC had won four in a row.
• In the last meeting in Chapel Hill, on Feb. 25, 2021, UNC won 84-59. As the Tar Heels celebrated Senior Night, all five starters reached double figures. Then-freshman Deja Kelly led the way with 22 points, which was at that point equal to her career high in scoring.
Noting the Tar Heels
• UNC is coming off a win over No. 13 Duke on Thursday. It was the Tar Heels’ third straight win at home over a ranked team – No. 4 Notre Dame, No. 11 NC State, then No. 13 Duke – marking the first time in program history that Carolina has beaten three ranked teams in consecutive home games. (UNC won at Virginia in the midst of that span.) The Tar Heels limited those three teams, all ranked in the top 13, to an average of 51 points per game.
• Three Tar Heels rank in the conference’s top 10 in scoring: Deja Kelly is fifth with 16.06 ppg, Kennedy Todd-Williams is ninth at 13.89, and Alyssa Ustby is 10th at 13.61. No other school has more than two scorers in the top 20.
• UNC drew a capacity crowd of 6,319 for last Sunday’s win over NC State, the Tar Heels’ first sellout since 2015. A crowd of more than 5,000 – including an all-time high of 1,500 UNC students – came to Thursday’s game vs Duke.
• In a nod to Carolina’s versatility, four different players have scored 20 or…
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