North Carolina will play the winningest program in women’s college basketball this week as No. 2 UConn takes on the No. 16 Tar Heels in Greensboro on Friday (6 p.m., ESPN2).
UConn’s Paige Bueckers, the national player of the year as a sophomore in 2021 who missed her junior season with a torn ACL, is firmly in the spotlight as the potential No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft. She’s poised to snatch a second national player of the year award as the Huskies seek a remarkable 12th NCAA women’s basketball championship as they come off a record 23rd Final Four.
Bueckers teams with Sarah Strong, the top-ranked prospect in the freshman class out of Sanford’s Grace Christian who averaged 15 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 4.0 steals in UConn’s two wins last week, to try to improve on the Huskies’ 8-4 advantage in the series vs. UNC that dates back to 1994.
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The Tar Heels enter the post-Deja Kelly era behind Alyssa Ustby, who averaged 12.5 points and 9.5 rebounds last season and became the first player in program history to post a triple-double. Maria Gakdeng brings her strong post play back to the Heels, and Ciera Toomey and Laila Hull — a pair of highly touted freshmen who sat out last season due to injuries — are back on the court.
A victory for UConn would put Geno Auriemma into a tie with retired Stanford great Tara VanDerveer as college basketball’s winningest coach with No. 1,216.
What channel is UNC women’s basketball vs. UConn on today?
TV Channel: ESPN2
Livestream: Fubo (free trial), ESPN+
North Carolina vs. UConn will be broadcast on ESPN2. Beth Mowins, Rebecca Lobo and Brooke Weisband will be on the television call for ESPN2.
UConn women vs UNC time today
Date: Friday, Nov. 15
Start time: 6 p.m.
The UConn vs. UNC women’s basketball game starts at 6 p.m. ET from the Greensboro Coliseum.
UConn vs. UNC women’s basketball score
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