Breaking down the UNC Women’s basketball Battle 4 Atlantis bracket

Nov 22, 2017; Paradise Island, BAHAMAS; Battle 4 Atlantis logo before the game between the Purdue Boilermakers and Tennessee Volunteers in the 2017 Battle 4 Atlantis in Imperial Arena at the Atlantis Resort. Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports

The North Carolina women’s basketball team is 3-1 heading into this weekend, the third weekend of the women’s college basketball season.

They opened the season with a 30-point win over Charleston Southern, led by 18 points from Alyssa Ustby. They followed it up with wins over UNC Wilmington at home and North Carolina A&T on the road, both by 19 points or more.

Their only loss of the season before this tournament this weekend was against the No. 2 ranked team in the nation, UConn, by just 11 points.

This weekend, the UNC women’s basketball team will travel with seven other teams to Nassau in the Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament.

They are joined by Baylor, Southern Mississippi, Indiana, Columbia, Ball State, Texas A&M, and Villanova, in the eight-team single-elimination bracket.

Evaluating the bracket, there is no team in this tournament that is ranked higher than the Tar Heels, which puts them as the favorites to win.

Baylor is the only other ranked team in the tournament at No. 18, but UNC wouldn’t play them until the championship game if that were to happen.

North Carolina opens the tournament up with Ball State at 6:30 p.m. ET on November 23, 2024. If they win that game, they play the winner of the matchup between Texas A&M and Villanova, loser plays the loser as well.

With this being a single elimination, it is important that this team gets out to a fast start and opens up big. To win, they need to win three games in as many days, including the possibility of taking down a ranked opponent.

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