Carmichael Comments: A Day For The Ages

Eva Hodgson and Ariel Young are both in their fifth seasons playing college basketball. The two veterans of the Tar Heel women's basketball team each began their careers in the fall of 2018 – Hodgson at William & Mary and Young at Michigan. Yet even when you use Hodgson and Young as a measuring stick, the last sellout of Carmichael Arena for a Carolina women's basketball game occurred during their freshman year. Of high school. Paulina Paris, the youngest Tar Heel, was in fourth grade when over 6,000 Tar Heels fans crowded the historic hub of women's basketball for the Jan. 25, 2015, clash with Duke.

Nearly eight years later, the veterans and rookie – and superstars in between such as Deja…