University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina NewsStand Archive: Nov. 25-Dec. 1, 2001
December 3, 2001 | General
Saturday, December 1, 2001
FB: Receivers Catch On
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL - The talk all week, before North Carolina played Florida State, was simple: The receivers had to make plays...
FB: Heels Hops To Find Bowl Bid In Stockings
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- It's December, and holiday rituals are in full swing. Days are getting shorter (though not yet colder), mega-malls are open later and credit-card balances are higher. There's another holiday happening at Kenan Stadium today when Southern Methodist takes on North Carolina. No matter what happens, a theme of this game will be one of giving and receiving...
WSOC: Tar Heels Back In The Final Four
Durham Herald-Sun/By Jim Furlong
CHAPEL HILL -- A "butt" shot advanced the North Carolina women's soccer program to the Final Four for the 21st consecutive year. Alyssa Ramsey, the ACC's leading scorer, was in the right place at the right time Friday night with about 10 minutes left in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Women's College Cup. She scored the game-winning goal in a 2-1 victory over No. 8 Penn State before 2,115 spectators at Fetzer Field...
WSOC: Ramsey In Luck With Final Goal
Charlotte Observer/By Kelly Lusk
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina forward Alyssa Ramsey never thought her backside would come in handy in a soccer game...
Friday, November 30, 2001
VB: Tar Heels Get Best Of Gamecoacks Second Time Around
Durham Herald-Sun/By T. Nolan Hayes
CHAPEL HILL -- The North Carolina volleyball team knew what it was up against Thursday...
WSOC: Penn State Seeks Revenge From UNC
Durham Herald-Sun/By Jim Furlong
CHAPEL HILL -- Penn State, the Big Ten women's soccer champion, has won 16 of its last 17 games...
MBB: Doherty Points To some Progress
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Before the Tar Heels' loss to Indiana, Matt Doherty talked about the fine line his team is now tight-roping after three consecutive defeats to open the season...
MBB: Curry Just Watching
USA Today/By Malcolm Moran
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The most experienced point guard in town was a spectator Wednesday night. Ronald Curry sat in the stands in the Smith Center and watched North Carolina's basketball team fall to 0-3 for the first time in 73 years. Earlier this year, in the same building, Curry directed the Tar Heels to a No. 1 ranking and an 18-game winning streak...
MBB: UNC Shows Improvement In Loss To IU
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
North Carolina gave Coach Matt Doherty half of what he had asked for Wednesday, but no more...
Thursday, November 29, 2001
MBB: Heels Remain Winless
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
In the quiet of the Smith Center, long before the game was over but long after much of the crowd had filed out, Indiana basketball coach Mike Davis was complaining about a foul call on his Hoosiers. "Quit showboating, Coach!" a North Carolina fan yelled...
MBB: Best Hope? That it Won't Get Worse
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
CHAPEL HILL - If you take it all the way back to Feb. 18 of last season, North Carolina's basketball team has lost eight of its last 13 games...
FB: Bunting Calls For 'Playoff' Mode
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL - As North Carolina heads into its final regular-season football game Saturday against Southern Methodist, UNC coach John Bunting has not been bandying about bowl possibilities. To Bunting, who comes from the NFL, this is playoff week...
MBB: Hitting A New Low
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- They played hard. They played better, at least for a half. But they still did not win. Indiana continued North Carolina's basketball misery Wednesday night, extending the Tar Heels' home losing streak to four games, a stretch that spans two seasons...
MBB: Tar Heels' Image Takes Another Punch
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- Now here's how bad it is for North Carolina's basketball program: With a little over five minutes remaining in Wednesday night's ACC-Big 10 Challenge with Indiana, people began leaving...
FB: A Frightening Weekend For Tar Heels' Assistant
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Thanksgiving weekend was a different kind of experience for UNC assistant coach Jim Webster. Instead of being up and about, Webster was recovering from a bizarre accident that was more serious than anyone first imagined...
WBB: UNC Women Rout Kentucky
Durham Herald-Sun/By Jim Furlong
CHAPEL HILL -- Nikki Teasley promised "There is more to come." Coach Sylvia Hatchell -- after the North Carolina women gained their first national ranking in more than a year -- said: "We are in there, but we want to climb. We are getting better."..
MBB: As Bad As It Is Now, It Could Get Worse For UNC
Greensboro News & Record/By Ed Hardin
CHAPEL HILL -- The Carolina fans walked in with strangers and innocent bystanders Wednesday night. The ticket holders walked in with the curious. Some 18,358 in all walked into the Dean E. Smith Center to see the same thing...
MBB: Indiana's Shooters Send Tar Heels To Third Loss
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- They honored play-by-play man Woody Durham for his 1,000th broadcast Wednesday night. Some student won $1,000 for making a halfcourt shot at halftime. But the North Carolina Tar Heels are still batting .000 in 2001-02...
FB: Heels Victory Could Be Peachy
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- The word has not officially been banned at North Carolina. The concept simply has been rephrased...
Wednesday, November 28, 2001
MBB: UNC Rookies Have No Time To Grow Up
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL - Jawad Williams had the ball at the top of the key last week when North Carolina was playing Davidson. Unsure of himself, unsure of his teammates, unsure of what was happening to the Tar Heels early in this season, he hesitated...
MBB: Another Chance For Tar Heels
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Matt Doherty's not sugar-coating the situation. It's not life and death, not by any means, but this is his job, his team...
MBB: Walk-On Johnson Will Start
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina's 0-2 start has led coach Matt Doherty to make moves involving freshmen and walk-on Will Johnson...
MBB: Tar Heels To Face Indiana
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- Life gets no easier for the reeling North Carolina Tar Heels...
MBB: Winless Tar Heels Set To Take On Hoosiers
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
Rested and refreshed but still frustrated, North Carolina will go in search of its first basketball victory of the season again today...
FB: UNC Assistant On Vandy's List
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina football coach John Bunting said earlier this season that one of his biggest challenges in maintaining the success the Tar Heels have established this year would be keeping his staff of assistant coaches together. Even before this season ends, Bunting is facing his first test in that regard...
FB: It's Unanimous For Peppers
Durham Herald-Sun/By David Droschak (AP)
RALEIGH -- Julius Peppers was the only unanimous pick to The Associated Press all-ACC football team, while league champion Maryland placed seven players on the 2001 first team released Tuesday...
FB: Tar Heels Not Talking Bowl Yet
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- John Bunting is not using the word "bowl" as he prepares UNC for its regular-season finale against Southern Methodist. Instead, he's invoking a term from pro and high school football...
FB: UNC Coach Treating Game As Playoff
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina coach John Bunting doesn't tiptoe around the stakes of Saturday's game against Southern Methodist. Win, and UNC probably goes to the Peach Bowl. Lose, and the Tar Heels' season ends at 6-6...
FB: Heels Offering Ticket Deals
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- Taking a cue from N.C. State, North Carolina football coach John Bunting has written a letter to his team's fans urging them to attend Saturday's rescheduled game with SMU. And like the Wolfpack, the athletics department is putting its money where its coach's mouth is...
FB: UNC Appeals To Fans To Attend Final Game
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- UNC is making an all-out effort to put people in the stands for this week's regular-season finale against Southern Methodist...
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
MBB: Big Plans
Raleigh News & Observer/By Ned Barnett
CHAPEL HILL - When Neil Fingleton sat for a recent interview -- and at 7-foot-5 he must sit for any face-to-face conversation -- he settled into a folding chair beneath a basket on the floor of the Dean Smith Center...
FB: State, UNC On Hold
Raleigh News & Observer/By Chip Alexander and Barry Svrluga
A piece of the ACC's bowl puzzle fell into place Monday afternoon. But Florida State's acceptance of a bid to the Gator Bowl didn't immediately clear things up for either N.C. State or North Carolina -- the two schools that appear to be lobbying the hardest for Atlanta's Peach Bowl...
Monday, November 26, 2001
MSOC: Tar Heels A Head Above
Durham Herald-Sun/By Jim Furlong
CHAPEL HILL -- Ryan Kneipper used his head to propel the Tar Heels forward...
MSOC: Kneipper Scores Twice As UNc Tops Towson
Winston-Salem Journal/By Mac Heffner
North Carolina scored two second-half insurance goals to take a 3-0 victory over Towson in an NCAA tournament second-round game at Fetzer Field...
MSOC: UNC Men Blank Towson
Raleigh News & Observer/Staff Report
Eighth-ranked North Carolina got two goals and an assist from Ryan Kneipper and shut out Towson 3-0 in the second round of the NCAA men's soccer tournament Sunday afternoon at a soggy Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill...
Sunday, November 25, 2001
WSOC: Whew! UNC Women Overcome Rutgers
Durham Herald-Sun/By Jim Furlong
CHAPEL HILL -- Rutgers shook the throne of the North Carolina women's soccer dynasty Saturday afternoon...
WSOC: Tar Heels Reach NCAA Soccer Quarterfinals
Raleigh News & Observer/Staff Report
CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina found itself in a strange but oddly familiar position Saturday. Still, the Tar Heels produced their usual outcome...
