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Weather causes Duke, UNC to alter women’s basketball schedules

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FILE- In this Jan. 10, 2016, file photo, North Carolina head coach Sylvia Hatchell yells to players during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in South Bend, Ind. Hatchell joined the 1,000-win club on Dec. 19, 2017. Robert Franklin, File AP Photo

With snow and ice forecast to hit the state Saturday night, two women’s basketball games scheduled for Sunday will not be played that day.

South Carolina was scheduled to play at Duke while UNC Greensboro and North Carolina were to play at Carmichael Arena on Sunday.

UNC athletics announced its game has been rescheduled to Friday at 7 p.m.

Duke announced that its game with South Carolina will not be played and that the teams are making their “best effort” to reschedule it.

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Steve Wiseman was named Raleigh News & Observer and Durham Herald-Sun sports editor in May 2025. He covered Duke athletics, beginning in 2010, prior to his current assignment. In the Associated Press Sports Editors national contest, he placed in the top 10 in beat writing in 2019, 2021 and 2022, breaking news in 2019, event coverage in 2025 and explanatory writing in 2018. Before coming to Durham in 2010, Steve worked for The State (Columbia, SC), Herald-Journal (Spartanburg, S.C.), The Sun Herald (Biloxi, Miss.), Charlotte Observer and Hickory (NC) Daily Record covering beats including the NFL’s Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints, University of South Carolina athletics and the S.C. General Assembly. He’s won numerous state-level press association awards. Steve graduated from Illinois State University in 1989. 
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