{"id":1931208,"date":"2026-09-04T06:47:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931208"},"modified":"2026-09-04T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:14:12","slug":"positionless-and-proven-with-deep-backcourt-unc-women-set-sights-on-deep-ncaa-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1931208","title":{"rendered":"Positionless and proven: With deep backcourt, UNC women set sights on deep NCAA run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 If there is a byword as North Carolina enters a women\u2019s basketball season flush with talent and high expectations, it\u2019s flexibility. Coach Courtney Banghart\u2019s eighth Tar Heel team has plenty of lead guards after depending heavily last season on Elena Aarnisalo, who has returned to UCLA. Banghart said the shift reflects both a broader evolution in the sport and a specific need she identified when Aarnisalo carried much of the offensive burden down the stretch a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/04\/positionless-and-proven-with-deep-backcourt-unc-women-set-sights-on-deep-ncaa-run\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positionless and proven: With deep backcourt, UNC women set sights on deep NCAA run<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/04\/positionless-and-proven-with-deep-backcourt-unc-women-set-sights-on-deep-ncaa-run\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 If there is a byword as North Carolina enters a women\u2019s basketball season flush with talent and high expectations, it\u2019s flexibility. Coach Courtney&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931209,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931208\/revisions\/1931209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}