GREENSBORO, N.C. – North Carolina welcomes Illinois to Chapel Hill for the first time in program history for the annual Big Ten/ACC Women's Basketball Challenge on Thursday, Dec. 5.
Carolina is 8-4 in the Challenge and 5-1 at home since 2007. Carolina and Illinois have never met in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
UNC has won every game of the series against Illinois, 5-0. Each meeting in program history has been a neutral site matchup with the first in 1988-89 and the most recent in 2013-14. Carolina topped the Illini 87-51 at the Cancun Challenge on Nov.