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February 15, 2001 | General
MBB: Indispensible Role Player
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
Joseph Forte will play a basketball game today at the
Smith Center. The TV cameras likely will follow him
through the layup lines, the commentators will talk
about how he leads No. 1 North Carolina into its ACC
matchup with No. 13 Maryland. The buzz will be about
how he has scored 21 or more points in six consecutive
games, about how no pressure shot scares him. On
and on. Elsewhere in that layup line will be Jason
Capel. He will do the same drills. He will not get the
same due...
MBB: Mom Knew Which Way Was Best For Forte
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- It had to be the shoes. Anything more obvious and mom would notice Joseph Forte's violation of the dress code at DeMatha Catholic High School and he'd never escape the house. This way, he could get out one door, in the other and aggravate the authorities, whose school had lots of rules but no girls...
MBB: Doherty's A Radio Sensation
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Matt Doherty enters the building calmly. He knows what's coming,
especially with his team ranked No. 1 in the country, having won 17 consecutive
games. He makes a few gentle waves and flashes a smile as the volume increases.
Some grown men wearing light blue get out of their seats and whistle...
Friday, February 9, 2001
WBB: Heels Top Slumping Tigers in OT
Raleigh News & Observer/Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL -- Juana Brown hit a running one-hander with 0.8
seconds left in the second overtime to give North Carolina a
100-99 win over No. 25 Clemson on Thursday night...
UNC: Rams Club Goes 'Outside' For Leader
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- John Montgomery, who has a strong athletic fund-raising
background in stints at UNC-Greensboro and Southern Methodist
University, has been hired by the University of North Carolina to
serve as president of the Educational Foundation, the school's chief athletic booster organization...
MBB: Heels Face Sign of the Times
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- When you're No. 1 and on a roll, everybody wants a piece of you.
Or, in the Tar Heels' case, everybody wants your signature on a piece of anything
light blue...
MBB: Worrying? ACC Shows Its Too Early To Panic
Winston-Salem Journal/by Lennox Rawlings
Coach Matt Doherty looked at the polls and saw North Carolina ranked No. 1.
He looked at the ACC standings and saw the Tar Heels in first place. He looked
at his watch and visualized the minute hand spinning around like in the
cartoons...
Thursday, February 8, 2001
FB: North Carolina Signs 21
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
ONES TO WATCH: Asheboro's Dumas perhaps has the most
potential. Though UNC coach John Bunting said Dumas could end
up playing offensive tackle or even tight end, he would like to see him
gain weight and develop into a dominant defensive end. "I think you
could see him as a Sunday player sometime," Bunting said...
FB: College Report: UNC's Brown, Anderson Out For 2001 Season
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina tailback Rufus Brown and cornerback Anthony
Anderson are lost for the 2001 season before the start of spring practice, the school
said Wednesday...
FB: UNC To Open With Oklahoma in Classic
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
When he heard the idea of playing at Oklahoma to start his North Carolina coaching career, John Bunting didn't back away. He practically high-fived his players instead...
FB: Bunting, Grobe Come Out Swinging
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels and Tim Peeler
New coach John Bunting was so giddy about his on-the-fly recruiting haul to North Carolina that he misspoke Wednesday...
MBB: Raw Nerve: Haywood Hits a Sore Spot With Comment
Winston-Salem Journal/By Lenox Rawlings
Only five days after North Carolina ransacked Duke's kitchen, stealing the butter
and eggs along the route to the No. 1 ranking, raw emotion punctuated another
ACC headliner...
Wednesday, February 7, 2001
MBB: Tar Heels Rise To The Occasion
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
The No. 1 team in the nation played its first game as the king of all it
surveys Tuesday night. It did so as an underdog. Chalk it up to the
nature of the ACC, the league North Carolina led with a perfect
conference record coming in. Would you want to come into Joel
Coliseum -- black-shirted, deep-lunged Wake Forest fans ringing the
court -- and play with a target William Tell would have no problem
nailing on your back? Likely not. But the Tar Heels did just that, and
survived. Their 80-74 win over the 19th-ranked Demon Deacons -- 1
1/2 point favorites -- was not about one guy taking over, not about
the nation's best team steam-rolling some also-ran...
MBB: UNC Survives First Test As Top Dog, Toppling Deacs
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
WINSTON-SALEM -- This is what it's come to for North Carolina's basketball team...
MBB: Dawson's Heroics Not Enough For Wake
Durham Herald-Sun/By Al Featherston
WINSTON-SALEM -- Craig Dawson celebrated his 21st birthday with a career-high
scoring performance against No. 1 North Carolina...
MBB: Tar Heels Beat Wake On Interior
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
WINSTON-SALEM -- Not that the long-range stuff was a failure, mind you. But when top-ranked North Carolina needed a comeback at No. 19 Wake Forest on Tuesday night, the Tar Heels knew where to go to get it...
MBB: Dawson Fires Away, But It Isn't Enough
Greensboro News & Record/By Bill Hass
WINSTON-SALEM - One day short of his 21st birthday, Wake Forest's Craig Dawson played the game of his career. But despite his 29-point effort, the Deacons skidded into sixth place in the ACC standings after an 80-74 loss to North Carolina Tuesday night in Joel Coliseum...
MBB: No. 1 Challenge Met
Charlotte Observer
WINSTON-SALEM -- There are so many ways right now to measure the top-ranked North Carolina Tar Heels...
FB: Bunting Learns To Love Selling UNC To Recruits
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
The city would turn into suburbs, then country, then backwoods, as
John Bunting made his way around North Carolina for the first time.
All the while, the questions flowed. How big is this high school?
What's the coach like? Has he traditionally sent his best football
players to the University of North Carolina?..
FB: Signing Day Preview
Durham Herald-Sun/By Al Featherston
North Carolina coach John Bunting also expects to do well on signing day --
surprisingly well, considering that it's a transition year for the Tar Heels...
WBB: Sutton Gives Heels Lift
Raleigh News & Observer/By Robert Alfonso Jr.
Coach Sylvia Hatchell is finally seeing what attracted her to Candace
Sutton -- confidence. The 6-foot-6 freshman center, who is averaging
8.8 points, has scored in double figures over the past six games for
North Carolina. The Tar Heels are 3-3 in that span...
Tuesday, February 6, 2001
MBB: House Calls: Aspiring Doctor Offers To Aid Heels at Point Guard
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
Adam Boone just wanted to play basketball. Forget about any broken
wrist or anything like that. Get me better, and let's play. "I was just
going through family practice for treatment," Boone said. "But it was
right in the middle of the season, and I wanted to come back a little faster than the doctor wanted me
to. So I went to a sports medicine clinic."...
MBB: Doherty Pleasing UNC Fans
Raleigh News & Observer/By A.J. Carrand and Barry Svrluga
In the eyes of North Carolina basketball fans, Matt Doherty stands
taller than the highest Chapel Hill pine...
MBB: Preview: North Carolina vs. Wake Forest
Raleigh News & Observer/By Wingate Cain
The North Carolina Tar Heels (19-2 overall, 9-0 ACC) will test their new No. 1 ranking against the
Wake Forest Demon Deacons (15-6 overall, 4-5 ACC) Tuesday night in Winston-Salem. Game
time is 9:00 p.m. EST on JP Sports...
MBB: Depth Taking UNC to Great Heights
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- North Carolina basketball coach Matt Doherty is absolutely right.
Being No. 1 now means virtually nothing, except you're being scrutinized, and
temporarily rewarded, for winning 16 straight games and being 19-2, 9-0 in the
ACC...
MBB: Changes In Their Wake: Fortunes Have Shifted for Deacs, Heels
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Wake Forest coach Dave Odom couldn't pinpoint it -- or didn't want
it in print -- but he knows his team is not the same one that won its first 12 games...
MBB: Burden to Bear
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
Coach Matt Doherty of North Carolina figures that the burden for his streaking
basketball team doubled at the very least yesterday...
MBB/WBB: Tar Heels, Wolfpack Grab ACC Honors
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
GREENSBORO -- North Carolina's Joseph Forte has been named ACC player of the
week after leading the Tar Heels to two conference wins and a No. 1 national
ranking...
MBB: Deacons Put Streak on the Line
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
So what do the Wake Forest Demon Deacons think about playing the No. 1 college basketball team in America tonight?...
MBB: UNC-Duke Ratings Hit Roof
Charlotte Observer/By Mark Washburn
The telecast of last week's North Carolina-Duke men's college basketball game
brought blockbuster ratings in ACC television markets...
SWIM: UNC Swimmer Wins ACC Award
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
GREENSBORO -- North Carolina's Chris Helin has earned the ACC men's
co-swimmer-of-the-week honor after leading the Tar Heels to a win over N.C. State.
He shared the award with Virginia's Jamie Grimes...
MSOC: Five Local Players Picked in MLS Draft
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
DAVIE, Fla. -- North Carolina standout Chris Carrieri and Duke standout Ali Curtis
were the top two selections Monday in the 2001 Major League Soccer SuperDraft,
which was held in Davie, Fla...
Monday, February 5, 2001
MBB: ACC: Ultimate Basketball Challenge
USA Today/By Malcolm Moran
It is Saturday in the Atlantic Coast Conference,
and two coaches confront a new set of
complications. As seen from outside the ACC,
Wake Forest's national ranking would signify
progress after relegation to the NIT last season,
and North Carolina's impending ascent to No.
1 would be more than enough reason for a keg
party. But from inside what has become the
nation's most unforgiving conference this
season, the stakes have just gone up and the
challenges become more dangerous...
MBB: Heels Back In Familiar No. 1 Spot
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- You heard it late in Saturday's game in the Smith
Center, when Georgia Tech was trailing North Carolina in the Tar
Heels' 82-69 win. The chant that fans love and coaches -- who look
at their calendar and note it's early February, nowhere near the end
of the season -- don't necessarily enjoy...
MBB: Poll Vault Puts Heels at No. 1
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Matt Doherty's not going to shy away from it, but the Tar Heels' new
No. 1 ranking is not one of his goals as the first-year coach at North Carolina...
WBB: Sutton Powers Tar Heels Over Wake
Durham Herald-Sun/By Jim Furlong
CHAPEL HILL -- The biggest player on the North Carolina women's team is making a
bigger impact...
FB: UNC Football Discussing Season-Opener Against Oklahoma
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
North Carolina may open the football season at national champion Oklahoma...
Sunday, February 4, 2001
MBB: Heels Come Out on Top
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL -- The score went up on the board with just less than
16 minutes left in the game. Judging by the reaction of the 21,750
fans in the Smith Center on Saturday afternoon, that result from
2,789 miles west was more important than what played out before
them...
MBB: 16th Straight Win Puts Heels in Position For No. 1
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Last year on this date, North Carolina was 13-9, out of the national
rankings and fighting for an NCAA bid...
MBB: Heels Fight Distractions
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- "We're number one," the sound came and it echoed loudly
throughout the Smith Center on Saturday afternoon...
MBB: Rout Gives Heels Shot at the Top
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- Now perhaps Matt Doherty can chill a bit, seizing the opportunity to kick back and reflect on fourth-ranked North Carolina's 82-69 win over Georgia Tech on Saturday...
MBB: Tar Heels Use 27-2 Spurt to Roll To Victory
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
North Carolina shook off all the after-effects of its biggest win of the season and beat
Georgia Tech 82-69 yesterday in a raucous Smith Center...
