The UNC Greensboro Spartans women's basketball team represents the

University of North Carolina at Greensboro The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG or UNC Greensboro) is a public research university in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina, University of North Carolina system. It is accredited by the S ...

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. The school's team currently competes in the

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History

They played in the NCAA Division III Tournament in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, and 1988. They made the Final Four in 1982 and 1988, losing to

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in the title game of the former and Concordia (Minnesota) in the Final Four in the latter. They were champions of the Dixie Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (DIAC) in regular season and tournament in 1982, 1983, 1985, 1987, and 1988, with a tournament title also occurring in 1984 and a regular season title in 1986. They played in the Division II Tournament in 1991. They won the

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regular season title in five consecutive seasons from 1993 to 1997, but they failed to win the conference tournament, finishing as runner-up four times. They won the Southern Conference conference tournament in 1998 after beating Georgia Southern 75-68. In their first ever NCAA Division I Tournament appearance, they lost 94-46 to Alabama in the First Round. They lost in the SoCon tournament championship game in 2000 (68-49 to Furman), 2001 (64-63 to Chattanooga), 2002 (77-69 to Chattanooga), and 2006 (91-79 to Chattanooga).

Postseason

NCAA Division I tournament results

The Spartans have made two appearances in the

NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament The NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, sometimes referred to as Women's March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 women's college basketball teams from the Div ...

. They have a combined record of 0–1.

NCAA Division II tournament results

The Spartans made one appearance in the

NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament The NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament (officially styled as "Championship" instead of "Tournament") is an annual tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II women's college basketball nati ...

. They had a combined record of 0–1.

NCAA Division III tournament results

The Spartans made seven appearances in the

NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament The NCAA Division III women's basketball championship is the annual tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to determine the national champions of women's collegiate basketball among its Division III members in the ...

. They had a combined record of 9–6.

References

External links

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