Tar Heels Travel West To Face TCU

Sunday, November 21

Fort Worth, Texas

4:30 PM

North Carolina

TCU

The Tar Heels will face TCU on Sunday in the Maggie Dixon Classic.

Photo by: Jerome M. Ibrahim

November 20, 2021 | Women's Basketball

Game Notes Watch on ESPN+

FORT WORTH, Texas – After improving to 3-0 on the season with a homecourt win on Wednesday, the North Carolina women's basketball team hits the road this weekend to take on TCU. The teams will meet on Sunday as part of the Maggie Dixon Classic, with tipoff at Schollmaier Arena at 3:30 p.m. CT/4:30 ET.

The Tar Heels and Horned Frogs (1-1) meet in the second game of the annual event, which honors Dixon, the sister of TCU men's basketball coach Jamie Dixon. Maggie Dixon died of a heart arrhythmia on April 6, 2006, weeks after coaching Army West Point to its first NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament appearance. Duke and Alabama face off in the opener of the double header.

This marks just the second ever meeting between UNC and TCU. The first came during a Thanksgiving tournament in Mexico in 2005, with Carolina winning 77-54.

The game will be broadcast on Big 12 Now/ESPN+ and also can be heard on the Tar Heel Sports Network.

All five players who have started the first three games are averaging in double figures: Deja Kelly leads the way at 14.7 ppg, followed by Alyssa Ustby (13.7), Anya Poole (12.7), Kennedy Todd-Williams (11.0) and Carlie Littlefield (10.0).

🅶🅰🅼🅴 🅳🅰🆈 🅴🆅🅴#GoHeels | #InPursuit pic.twitter.com/XUPsmIckk0 — Carolina Women's Basketball (@uncwbb) November 21, 2021

Notable Numbers
• UNC has forced 24 or more turnovers in each of the first three games this season. The Tar Heels forced that many just twice (S.C. State, Clemson) in all of 2020-21.
• The 11 players who scored in the win at Charlotte marked the highest number of Tar Heels to have scored in a game during the Banghart era. UNC accomplished that same feat against Appalachian State.
• In their Tar Heel debut vs. NC A&T on Nov. 9, transfers Eva Hodgson and Carlie Littlefield combined for 28 points on 11-for-12 shooting ( 5-for-6 from three) to go with three rebounds, seven assists, and six steals.
• UNC has outscored its opponent in all 12 quarters this season.
• The Tar Heels have not trailed for even a second this season.
• Two freshmen hit double figures for the first time as Tar Heels on Wednesday against Appalachian State. Destiny Adams scored all 10 of her points in the fourth quarter, and Morasha Wiggins had seven of her 10 after halftime.

Tar Heels in the Rankings
• UNC ranks fourth nationally in field goal percentage defense (opponents shooting 25.5 percent), fifth in scoring margin (48.7 points), sixth in scoring defense (opponents scoring 41.3 ppg) and 12th in scoring offense (90.0 ppg). The Tar Heels are fourth in turnovers forced (29 per game), 12th in turnover margin (13.00) and 15th in steals (14.7).