University of North Carolina Athletics
2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster
Indya Nivar
- Position:
- G
- Height:
- 5-10
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Apex, N.C.
- High School:
- Apex Friendship
- Prev School:
- Stanford
2025-26 (Regular Season): All-ACC Second Team ... ACC All-Defensive ... Played and started in 30 games ... Matched her career-high with 17 points at Texas … Recorded the second triple-double in Carolina women’s basketball history against South Dakota State with 13 points, 12 rebounds and 10 steals against the Jackrabbits at the Cancun Challenge … Matched the program record with 10 steals in a single-game, last set by Pam Leake in 1985 … Fourth triple-double in the history of the Atlantic Coast Conference with steals … Rode a 14 game-streak in double-figure scoring to start the season … Named the Cancun Challenge Tournament Most Valuable Player … Named the ACC Player of the Week on Dec. 1 following her historic performance in Mexico … Picked up USWBA Ann Meyers Drysdale Player of the Week acclaim on Dec. 2 … Matched her career-high four times in dishing out seven assists ... Tallied 79 total steals, the most by a Tar Heel in a single season since 2012-13 ... Dished out 120 assists, the most for UNC since 2019-20 ... Led Carolina overall in steals and assists ... Six games with at least five points, five rebounds and five assists ... Averaged 10.4 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.6 steals per game.
2024-25: Played and started in 34 games after missing the first three of the season … Scored a season-high 16 points against Georgia Tech … 14 games with 10 or more points … Rode a career-high five game streak in double-figure scoring from late February to early March … Grabbed a season-high 10 rebounds in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament against West Virginia … Dished out a career-high five assists at Miami, at Pitt and against Boston College in the ACC Tournament … Snagged a Banghart era best seven steals in the victory at Pitt … Led Carolina with 2.0 steals per game, ranking ninth in the ACC … Paced the Tar Heels with 68 steals … Averaged 8.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game.
2023-24: As a sophomore, played in all 33 games and started six … Averaged 6.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game … Opened the season with her first career double-double with 17 points and 11 rebounds against Gardner-Webb. She’s the first Tar Heel since 2013 to record a double-double in her first game … Hit hit a three from beyond halfcourt to beat the first-quarter buzzer – the shot was her first three as a Tar Heel and was No. 5 on SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays the following day … Went 7-8 against Western Carolina (12/15), scoring 15 points in just under 20 minutes of play … Led UNC with 16 points off the bench in the win at No. 16 Notre Dame, scoring 10 points in the fourth quarter alone … Scored 10 points in the homecourt win over No. 13 Louisville, hitting 4-6 field goals and her only three-point attempt of the night … Scored 11 points on 4-7 shooting in the homecourt win vs. NC State (2/22) … Scored 16 points, 13 of them in the second half, at BC … Hit double figures in scoring nine times
At Stanford
2022-23: As a freshman, played in all 35 games for the Cardinal … Averaged 12.6 minutes and 3.2 points per game as Stanford won the regular-season Pac-12 title and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament … Played a season-high 27 minutes in the team's matchup with Utah in January and made her only start in the following game, a win over Colorado
At Apex Friendship High School: Won North Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year and Ms. Basketball honors as a senior in 2021-22 … McDonald's All-American and Jordan Brand Classic All-American … Ranked No. 20 in her class and helped Apex Friendship to a state runner-up finish as a senior
More on Nivar: Earned a gold medal as part of the U.S. team at the 2022 FIBA Americas U18 Championship in Argentina
