The 2020–21 North Carolina Tar Heels women's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.

The Tar Heels, were led by second year head coach Courtney Banghart, played their games at Carmichael Arena, and are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament where they were the ten seed in the HemisFair Regional.

As the twelfth seed in the ACC tournament, they lost to Wake Forest in the First Round.

The NCAA tournament and WNIT were cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.