Sunday, November 12
Chapel Hill, N.C.
2:00 P.M.
North Carolina
1-1
87
vs
80
Colorado
1-1
1
2
3
4
OT 1
F
Colorado
25
22
12
15
6
80
North Carolina
20
12
19
23
13
87
Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati
Carolina Wins OT Thriller Over Colorado
November 12, 2017 | Women's Basketball
CHAPEL HILL - Jamie Cherry and Paris Kea combined for 54 points and North Carolina overcame an 18-point deficit to earn a dramatic 87-80 overtime victory over Colorado on Sunday afternoon.
Kea scored a game-high 28 points and dished out nine assists, while Cherry had 26 points. The back-court duo was 21-of-40 from the field and had 14 assists, nine rebounds and five steals.
Freshman Jocelyn Jones and sophomore Taylor Koenen both recorded double-doubles. Jones had 11 points and 11 rebounds, while Koenen had 10 and 10. Freshman Janelle Bailey added 10.
All-Pac-12 guard Kennedy Leonard had 24 points to lead Colorado (1-1). Alexis Robinson added 16 points and Annika Jank had 15.
Carolina (1-1) struggled to find any kind of rhythm offensively in the first half. The Tar Heels turned it over 13 times and was out-rebounded, 29-19. Colorado led by as many as 18 points and ultimately held a 47-32 advantage at intermission.
Determined to get back in the game, Carolina scored 12 of the first 15 points of the third quarter to claw back within, 50-44. Kea converted a three-point play and Cherry drained her second three-pointer of the game to force Colorado to call timeout with 4:53 left in the third.
Kea drove to the hole to get UNC within 53-51, but Colorado knocked down back-to-back triples to increase its edge to 59-51 heading to the final quarter.
Carolina answered once again with the first eight points of the fourth quarter to tie it up at 59-59, but Leonard got hot from distance, making three of her four 3-pointers in the period to swing the lead back to Colorado, 72-66.
Cherry, well known for making huge shots in her career, knocked down a three-pointer with 18 seconds left in regulation to give Carolina the lead, but Aubrey Knight's layup sent the game into overtime at 74-74.
Kea drove the lane and scored the first bucket of overtime and Carolina never relinquished the lead over the five-minute extra session to earn its first win of the new campaign.
The 18-point comeback is the largest since falling behind by an identical 18 points in the 60-58 win over UT Martin in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels wound up knocking off No. 1 seed South Carolina to reach the Elite 8 that season.
Carolina hosts Radford on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Kea scored a game-high 28 points and dished out nine assists, while Cherry had 26 points. The back-court duo was 21-of-40 from the field and had 14 assists, nine rebounds and five steals.
Freshman Jocelyn Jones and sophomore Taylor Koenen both recorded double-doubles. Jones had 11 points and 11 rebounds, while Koenen had 10 and 10. Freshman Janelle Bailey added 10.
All-Pac-12 guard Kennedy Leonard had 24 points to lead Colorado (1-1). Alexis Robinson added 16 points and Annika Jank had 15.
Carolina (1-1) struggled to find any kind of rhythm offensively in the first half. The Tar Heels turned it over 13 times and was out-rebounded, 29-19. Colorado led by as many as 18 points and ultimately held a 47-32 advantage at intermission.
Determined to get back in the game, Carolina scored 12 of the first 15 points of the third quarter to claw back within, 50-44. Kea converted a three-point play and Cherry drained her second three-pointer of the game to force Colorado to call timeout with 4:53 left in the third.
Kea drove to the hole to get UNC within 53-51, but Colorado knocked down back-to-back triples to increase its edge to 59-51 heading to the final quarter.
Carolina answered once again with the first eight points of the fourth quarter to tie it up at 59-59, but Leonard got hot from distance, making three of her four 3-pointers in the period to swing the lead back to Colorado, 72-66.
Cherry, well known for making huge shots in her career, knocked down a three-pointer with 18 seconds left in regulation to give Carolina the lead, but Aubrey Knight's layup sent the game into overtime at 74-74.
Kea drove the lane and scored the first bucket of overtime and Carolina never relinquished the lead over the five-minute extra session to earn its first win of the new campaign.
The 18-point comeback is the largest since falling behind by an identical 18 points in the 60-58 win over UT Martin in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels wound up knocking off No. 1 seed South Carolina to reach the Elite 8 that season.
Carolina hosts Radford on Thursday at 6 p.m.
Team Stats
COLO
NC
FG%
.375
.486
3FG%
.294
.316
FT%
.667
.643
RB
42
48
TO
17
23
STL
15
11
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
26
FGM
10
3FGM
4
FTM
2
Pts
11
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
1
Pts
10
FGM
4
3FGM
0
FTM
2
Players Mentioned
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