Tar Heels Announce 2021-22 WBB Schedule

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The North Carolina women's basketball team will play 15 games on its home court at Carmichael Arena during the 2021-22 season, opening on Nov. 9 against MEAC champ North Carolina A&T and wrapping up with an Atlantic Coast Conference matchup against Duke on Feb. 27. In between, the Tar Heels will take on a challenging and exciting schedule, the ACC portion of which was announced on Wednesday evening by the league.

Click here for the Tar Heels' full schedule, including the 11 nonconference games announced last month. The Tar Heels will kick off the season with Carolina Basketball Late Night festivities on Oct. 15.

🚨 Our 21-22 schedule is OUT! 🚨 Info here ➡️ https://t.co/lUA1IuNjJo Can't wait to see you at Carmichael, Tar Heels!#GoHeels | #InPursuit pic.twitter.com/Wzlc4XbpyF
— Carolina Women's Basketball (@uncwbb) September 15, 2021

Current season ticket holders can renew their season tickets now by visiting GoHeels.com/renew or by contacting the UNC Ticket Office (800-722-4335, tickets@unc.edu). New season tickets will go on sale to the public starting on Monday, Sept. 20th.

UNC is one of eight ACC women's basketball teams, the most of any conference, to compete in the 2021 NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels return eight letterwinners from that team and add four freshmen – all ranked among the top 20 players in the Class of 2021 – and two graduate transfers.

For a look at the full 2021-22 UNC roster, click here.

ACC women's basketball returns to an 18-game conference schedule in 2021-22 after playing a 20-game league slate last season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Tar Heels open conference play on Dec. 19 at Boston College and then host Syracuse on Dec. 30, getting in two ACC games before the calendar flips to 2022.

Carolina will play home-and-home contests with Duke, NC State, Virginia and Virginia Tech. Additionally, the Tar Heels will host Clemson, Louisville, Miami and Pitt, along with Syracuse. They'll make trips to Florida State, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame and Wake Forest in addition to the ACC opener at Boston College.

Carolina opens the season on Nov. 9 at home against the Aggies, a 2021 NCAA Tournament team. The nonconference slate includes six games in Chapel Hill and five away from home, including a Dec. 1 game at Minnesota as part of the 14th Big Ten/ACC Women's Basketball Challenge.

Conference action begins on Nov. 14 with Notre Dame playing at Syracuse. The first full date of league play is Sunday, Dec. 19 with six matchups on the slate, including UNC at Boston College.

All 135 ACC regular-season conference games will be available through the ESPN family of networks, including ACC Network, the conference's Regional Sports Networks (RSN) or ACC Network Extra.

Seventy-six regular-season games, including 59 conference games, are set to be televised by ACC Network and an additional nine games will air on other ESPN networks. New for this season, ACCN's Sunday coverage includes five quadruple headers in addition to nine Thursday night doubleheaders.

Headlined by six Sunday afternoon doubleheaders and five Thursday evening doubleheaders, 24 league games will be broadcast on the ACC's Regional Sports Networks (RSN). Bally Sports South, Bally Sports Florida, Bally Sports Sun, Bally Sports Midwest, Bally Sports Indiana, MASN, NESN and YES Network are the regional television partners (RSN) for this season.

The 2022 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament is set for March 2-6 at Greensboro Coliseum.

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