University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Women's Basketball Hosts ACC Action
December 29, 2001 | Women's Basketball
Dec. 29, 2001
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Tipoff: No. 20 UNC vs. Maryland, Dec. 30
The University of North Carolina women's basketball team (9-2, 1-0 ACC) meets Maryland (8-4, 1-0 ACC) on Sunday afternoon for an Atlantic Coast Conference battle. Tipoff is 2 p.m. at Carmichael Auditorium. Both teams won their ACC openers and will be playing to stay undefeated in the league.
Up next for UNC is another ACC game, this one on the road. The Tar Heels depart Chapel Hill on New Year's Day for a Jan. 2 matchup against Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla. Tipoff is 7 p.m. at Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center.
Carolina's next home game is a non-conference contest against Lehigh on Jan. 5 at 7 p.m.
On the air
The UNC-Maryland game will be broadcast live on radio by the Tar Heel Radio Network. The flagship station is 1360-AM WCHL. Stephen Gates is Carolina's play-by-play announcer and Jones Angell provides color commentary. Game action also is available via the internet at www.TarHeelBlue.com.
Tickets
Tickets to UNC women's basketball games are $5 for adults, $3 for students and seniors. There is no admission charge for children 12 and under.
North Carolina students, faculty and staff are admitted free with their UNC One Cards.
Tickets may be purchased at the door or at the UNC ticket office by calling (919) 962-2296 or (800) 722-4335.
Quick facts on UNC
2001-02: Record 9-2 (1-0 ACC)
Current Rankings: 20th AP, 19th USAToday/ ESPN
Head Coach: Sylvia Hatchell (Carson-Newman, 1974)
Career Record: 585-242 (in her 27th season)
Record at UNC: 313-162 (in her 16th season)
Assistant Head Coach: Andrew Calder
Assistant Coaches: Tracey Williams, Sylvia Crawley
Team captains: Coretta Brown, Courtney Chambers, Jennifer Thomas
Sports information contact: Dana Gelin
Phone/email: (919) 962-0083/dgelin@uncaa.unc.edu
UNC athletics website: www.TarHeelBlue.com
UNC ticket office: (919) 962-2126, (800) 722-4335
News of note
* UNC fell from 16th in both polls to 20th in the Associated Press poll and 19th in the coaches' poll following its worst loss of the season, 85-53 to South Carolina on Dec. 20.
* The matchup with Maryland is just the second game in 22 days for Carolina, which faced Richmond on Dec. 8 and South Carolina on Dec. 20.
* Maryland leads the series with UNC 26-24.
* Senior guard Nikki Teasley is eight points from reaching the 1,500 career points mark. She heads into the Maryland game with 1,492 points, the 13th-highest total in school history. Teasley also scored her 1,000th career point in a game against Maryland.
* Sophomore center Candace Sutton has moved into a tie for 10th place on UNC's career blocks list. In just 39 career games, she has a total of 59 blocks, equal to the career total of LaQuanda Barksdale (1998-2001), who was alone in 10th place.
UNC's statistical leaders
Scoring: Nikki Teasley (17.1 points per game)
Rebounding: Chrystal Baptist (8.7 per game)
Assists: Leah Metcalf (5.9 per game)
Steals: Nikki Teasley (2.7 per game)
Blocks: Candace Sutton (1.7 per game)
Field goal percentage: Kenya McBee (60.5, 26-43)
Three-point percentage (min. 1 per game): Nikki Teasley (42.2, 27-64)
Free throw percentage (min. 1 per game): Nikki Teasley (89.5, 34-38)
Minutes per game: Coretta Brown (31.6 per game)
Scouting the Maryland Terrapins
Maryland is 8-4 on the season, 1-0 in the ACC, coming off a 60-48 win over UMBC on Friday night. The Terrapins shot 83.3 percent (10-12) from the field in the first half and 69.2 percent (18-26) for the game to earn the win. Maryland was 0-1 from three-point range, but 24-for-31 from the foul line.
For the season, UM is led by senior guard Marche Strickland, who averages 12.4 points per game. Strickland is one of the conference's top three-point threats and is shooting 41.7 percent (25-60) from long range.
Also in double figures is senior forward Deedee Warley with 10.8 points per game. Junior guard Renneika Razor and senior center Jamecca Harrell are the Terrapins' top rebounders with 5.3 per game.
Maryland is coached by Chris Weller, who is 494-273 in her 27th year with the program.
* The Terrapins' wins this season have come over Coppin State, Loyola, DePaul, Richmond, Clemson (ACC), Morgan State, Eastern Michigan and UMBC. Losses have been to Mississippi State, Dayton, Penn State and Alabama.
The only common opponent that Maryland and North Carolina have faced is Richmond. Both teams beat the Spiders, with UM winning 79-70 on Dec. 2 and UNC winning 99-69 on Dec. 8.
The North Carolina-Maryland series
Maryland holds a slim lead in the series with UNC, 26-24. The Terrapins won the most recent meeting, 55-53 in College Park on Jan. 28, but prior to that UNC had won six games in a row.
In the last meeting in Chapel Hill, Carolina won 87-69 in the ACC opener for both teams on Dec. 9, 2000. Coretta Brown led the Tar Heels with 27 points, equal to her career high.
The Terrapins' last win at Carmichael Auditorium came on Feb. 21, 1996, when they won 68-62.
Milestones in view
Senior guard Nikki Teasley heads into Sunday's game just eight points shy of reaching the 1,500-point mark for her career. Her current total of 1,492 ranks 13th on the school's alltime scoring list. Kathy Wilson (1985-88) is in 12th place with a career total of 1,551.
This could be the second milestone reached against Maryland for Teasley, who has hit double figures in every game this season. She also scored the 1,000th point of her career against the Terrapins, in a game in College Park on Dec. 2, 1999.
Teasley lists Washington, D.C., as her hometown but prepped at St. John's at Prospect Hall in Frederick, Md.
* Teasley is three assists from taking over third place on the ACC's career assists chart. Already UNC's all-time leader, Teasley has a career total of 581 assists. Maryland's Debbie Lytle (1980-83) currently holds third on the ACC list with 583. NC State's Angie Armstrong (1980-83) is second with 608. Virginia's Dawn Staley (1989-92) is the conference's assist leader with a career total of 729.
Last time out for UNC
Dec. 20: No. 23 South Carolina 85, No. 16 North Carolina 53
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.--The Tar Heels hit season lows in almost every statistical category in their worst loss of the season, 85-53 to South Carolina at the ACC/SEC Challenge. The scoring output was Carolina's lowest since a 55-53 loss at Maryland on Jan. 28, 2001, and the margin of defeat was UNC's worst since a 101-58 loss at Duke on Jan. 27, 2000.
The Tar Heels hit season-low marks for field goals (22), field goal percentage (28.2), free throws (four), free throw attempts (seven), assists (eight) and blocks (one).
Nikki Teasley hit five three-pointers and totaled 17 points in the first half to keep UNC within five, 42-37, at halftime. But the Tar Heels scored just 16 points on 18.9 percent shooting in the second half to fall behind by as many as 35.
South Carolina won the rebounding battle 61-41.
"Everything was off tonight," UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell said. "We were even missing shots under the basket, and rebounding became a major issue.
"We'll learn from this game and bounce back."
