Less than four months before her team opens up its 2025-26 season, UNC women’s basketball head coach Courtney Banghart is already forecasting the group as one of the deepest and most competitive rosters she’s ever assembled. “I would be very surprised if our rotation was anywhere near as tight as it has been,” Banghart told reporters Tuesday afternoon. “I have absolutely no idea who our first group is gonna be, because we can go a couple different ways with it.” Banghart’s team lost three starters to the professional ranks following the end of the 2024-25 season: Lexi Donarski, Maria Gakdeng and UNC’s all-time leading rebounder Alyssa Ustby have all departed, taking multiple years of starting experience with them. Guard Reniya Kelly and wing Indya Nivar are the Tar Heels’ returning starters. Rising sophomore Lanie Grant, a 2024-25 ACC All-Freshman honoree, appears primed to inherit a starting role after filling in for the injured Kelly late last season. “She had a really big step, a...