University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heel Women's Hoops Travels To NC State
February 20, 2001 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 20, 2001
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Tipoff
North Carolina will wrap up the 2000-01 regular season with road games against its Triangle rivals. On Feb. 21, Carolina plays at NC State with a 7 p.m. tipoff. On Feb. 26, UNC plays at Duke with a 7:30 p.m. tipoff.
Quick facts on the Tar Heels
2000-01 Record: 14-11 overall (7-7 ACC)
Head Coach: Sylvia Hatchell
Hatchell's Career Record: 575-237 (26th year)
Hatchell's Record at UNC: 303-157 (15th year)
Assistant Head Coach: Andrew Calder
Assistant Coaches: Tracey Williams, Sylvia Crawley
Team Captains: LaQuanda Barksdale, Juana Brown, Leah Sharp
National Rankings: Not ranked in either poll
Sports information contact: Dana Gelin
Phone/email: (919) 962-0083/dgelin@uncaa.unc.edu
UNC website: www.TarHeelBlue.com
On the air
Wednesday's game will be broadcast on radio by the Carolina Women's Basketball Network. The flagship station is 1360-AM WCHL. Stephen Gates is the Tar Heels' play-by-play announcer.
News to note
* Carolina is 14-11 (7-7 ACC) following an 80-78 overtime loss to Florida State on Sunday.
* Three Tar Heels rank among the ACC's top 10 scorers: LaQuanda Barksdale is first (19.2 ppg), Coretta Brown is fifth (16.3 ppg) and Juana Brown is 10th (13.9 ppg).
* With 15 rebounds against Florida State, LaQuanda Barksdale took over sixth place on UNC's all-time rebounds chart with a career total of 932.
* Coretta Brown has 170 assists this season, the second-highest total in UNC history. She is 42 from setting a single-season school record.
* UNC's seven conference losses have come by an average of 3.6 points each. The Tar Heels have played 10 ACC games with margins of 10 points or less, more than any other team in the conference.
* The Tar Heels lead the ACC with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.05, with 429 assists (17.2 per game) and 407 turnovers (16.3 per game) this season.
* In this week's NCAA statistics, LaQuanda Barksdale ranks seventh nationally in rebounding and is tied for 33rd in scoring. Coretta Brown ranks 13th in assists.
* Tar Heels lead the ACC in scoring (LaQuanda Barksdale, 19.2 points per game), assists (Coretta Brown, 6.8), blocks (Candace Sutton, 1.5) and assist-turnover ratio (Coretta Brown, 1.77). Barksdale ranks a close second in rebounding with 11.6 per game.
* Carolina leads the ACC in scoring (77.7 points per game), rebounding (44.5 per game) and assist/turnover ratio (1.05). The Tar Heels rank last in rebounding defense (41.2 per game by opponents) and steals (8.4 per game).
Carolina's statistical leaders
Scoring: LaQuanda Barksdale, 19.2 points per game (1st ACC)
Rebounding: LaQuanda Barksdale, 11.6 per game (2nd ACC)
Assists: Coretta Brown, 6.8 per game (1st ACC)
Steals: Juana Brown, 2.0 per game (T5th ACC)
Blocks: Candace Sutton, 1.5 per game (1st ACC)
Minutes: Coretta Brown, 38.7 per game
Field goal percentage: Candace Sutton, 48.5 percent, 94-194
Three-point percentage: Coretta Brown, 37.1 percent, 43-116 (3rd ACC)
Free throw percentage: Juana Brown, 71.7 percent, 33-46
Scouting the NC State Wolfpack
NC State is 17-8 overall, 8-6 in the ACC, following a 69-55 homecourt win over Duke on Sunday. Senior guard Tynesha Lewis led the team in scoring in that game with 19 points. Freshman forward Adeola Olanrewaju was the team's top rebounder with 10 and also contributed 16 points.
For the season, sophomore center Carisse Moody leads the team in scoring with 14.5 points per game, ninth in the ACC. She is also the team's top rebounder with 7.0 per game. Lewis the only other player scoring in double figures with 13.3 points per game. She leads the team in assists with 2.8.
NC State is coached by Kay Yow, who is 549-231 in her 26th year with the program.
UNC vs. NC State
Wednesday's game will be the 68th meeting between North Carolina and North Carolina State. The Wolfpack leads the series 45-22, but UNC won the season's first meeting, 83-77 in overtime on Jan. 14.
NC State won the last meeting at Reynolds Coliseum, 86-76 on Feb. 3, 2001.
A look at the season's first matchup
Carolina outscored #19 NC State 10-4 in the extra period to win 83-77 on Jan. 14 at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill. The win was the second of the week for UNC over a ranked team.
Sophomore guard Coretta Brown scored six of her 22 points in overtime. She also provided UNC's final five points of regulation, including a jumper in the lane and a free throw to put the Tar Heels up 73-71 with six seconds left. NC State's Amy Simpson made two free throws with no time left to send the game into overtime.
Brown's driving one-hander from the lane with 1:25 left in overtime was her third straight basket in the extra period and gave the Tar Heels a 79-75 lead. The Wolfpack missed its last two attempts in overtime, while UNC's Leah Sharp made four free throws in the final 15.1 seconds.
Senior forward LaQuanda Barksdale had 21 points and 15 rebounds for North Carolina. Brown also had seven assists, four rebounds and three steals in 45 minutes of play.
Senior guard Tynesha Lewis led NC State with 23 points, eight rebounds and five assists. Carisse Moody and Adeola Olanrewaju added 14 each.
NC State took the game's biggest lead at 53-46 with 12:22 left in regulation on a jumper by Olanrewaju. After North Carolina tied it at 53-53 on a jumper by freshman Chrystal Baptist with 10:38 to play, neither team led by more than a until overtime.
UNC's most recent action
Florida State won in Chapel Hill Sunday for the first time since 1993, beating UNC 80-78 in overtime at Carmichael Auditorium. FSU improved to 17-8 on the season and held onto second place in the ACC with a 9-5 conference record. UNC fell to 14-11 overall, 7-7 in the ACC.
"Florida State just wanted it more than we did," UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell said. "They played really hard."
The afternoon was Senior Day at Carolina, the final home game for LaQuanda Barksdale, Juana Brown, Jackie Myers and Leah Sharp. All four were in the starting lineup for the Tar Heels, who had won their last nine games against FSU.
Florida State led 35-31 at halftime, but UNC opened the second half with a 10-2 run to take a four-point lead. Neither team led by more than five in the second half and UNC trailed by three before sophomore guard Coretta Brown converted a three-point play with 8.2 seconds on the clock to tie the game at 69-69.
The game was the fourth overtime contest of the year for UNC, which is 2-2 in those games. In its history, Carolina had never played more than three overtime games in a single season.
The Tar Heels never led in the overtime period. Sophomore Katelyn Vujas paced FSU in the final five minutes with five of her 13 points.
For the game, four Seminole players scored in double figures, led by senior center Levys Torres with 17 points. Junior guard April Traylor scored 16 and senior forward Brooke Wyckoff added 14. FSU was led in rebounding by 5-3 junior guard Lakesha Springle, who had 11.
Barksdale led UNC with 30 points and 15 rebounds, her 16th double-double of the season. Juana Brown added 17 points, seven rebounds and seven assists. Freshman center Candace Sutton was the only other Tar Heel in double figures with 12 points.
Top of the charts
For the second consecutive season, senior forward LaQuanda Barksdale has the led ACC through nearly all of the season in both scoring and rebounding. (She currently ranks a close second to Virginia's Schuye LaRue on the rebounding chart.)
Should Barksdale finish the year at the top of both lists, she would be just the second player in league history to repeat as the conference leader in both categories. The only other player to have accomplished that feat is UNC standout Tracy Reid, who in 1997 led the ACC in both categories and in 1998 led the conference in scoring and tied for the rebounding lead. Reid won ACC Player of the Year honors in both 1997 and `98.
Doubling up
Senior forward LaQuanda Barksdale has 16 double-doubles in this season's 25 games. After 30 points and 15 rebounds against Florida State on Feb. 18, she now has a career total of 36, best among active ACC players.
She is averaging a double-double for the season, with 19.2 points and 11.6 rebounds per game.
* Sophomore guard Coretta Brown has three double-doubles this season, one on points and rebounds (17-10 vs. Winthrop) and two on points and assists (17-16 vs. North Carolina A&T, 11-11 vs. Virginia on 2/11).
* Freshman center Candace Sutton tallied the first double-double of her career with 18 points and 11 rebounds against Wake Forest on Feb. 4. Her 11 rebounds marked a career high.
Barksdale climbing career rebounds chart
Senior forward LaQuanda Barksdale, who led the ACC in rebounding last season and has topped the category for most of this year, is now in sixth place on North Carolina's career rebounds chart. Barksdale, who is averaging 11.6 rebounds per game this season, has a career total of 932.
Career Rebounds Games Rebounds
1. Bernie McGlade (1977-80) 121 1,251
2. Charlotte Smith (1992-95) 129 1,200
3. Dawn Royster (1984-87) 110 1,108
4. Tracy Reid (1995-98) 121 1,065
5. Henrietta Walls (1980-83) 123 1,024
6. LaQuanda Barksdale (1998-01) 126 932
7. Tonya Sampson (1991-94) 123 924
8. Tresa Brown (1981-84) 121 901
9. Kathy Crawford (1980-83) 124 870
10. Tia Poindexter (1985-88) 117 852
Brown climbing season assists chart
In her first season as UNC's regular starter at point guard, sophomore Coretta Brown already has etched her name in the Carolina record books. With a season total of 170 assists, she has the second best single-season assists total in school history.
She is 42 assists from surpassing the single-season record of 211, set by Nikki Teasley in 1999.
Brown averages 6.8 assists per game for the season, but has handed out 9.2 per game over the last five games.
Single Season Assists Games Assists
1. Nikki Teasley (1999) 36 211
2. Coretta Brown (2001) 25 170
3. Pam Hammond (1985) 32 169
4. Marion Jones (1995) 35 168
5. Nikki Teasley (1998) 30 166
6. Pam Leake (1986) 31 165
7. Emily Johnson (1992) 31 163
8. Nikki Teasley (2000) 26 162
9. Pam Leake (1985) 31 160
10. Pam Hammond (1984) 32 157
Taking care of the ball
The Tar Heels have done an outstanding job of taking care of the basketball this season and lead the ACC in assist-to-turnover ratio. With 429 assists (17.2 per game) and 407 turnovers (16.3 per game) this season, Carolina sports a ratio of 1.05 and is the only school in the conference with more assists than turnovers.
Over the last four ACC games, the Tar Heels have averaged just 12.5 turnovers per game. They gave up a season-low 11 against Wake Forest on Feb. 4, committed just 12 in a double-overtime win over Clemson on Feb. 8 and tied the season low with 11 at Virginia on Feb. 11.
Sophomore guard Coretta Brown leads the team in assists with 170 (6.8 per game) and has also committed the most turnovers on the team with 96. Her assist-to-turnover ratio is 1.77, best in the ACC.
Sutton strengthens scoring, earns honor
Freshman center Candace Sutton has dramatically improved her scoring during the course of the conference season. In her first 14 games of the season (she did not play in the Elon game), Sutton averaged 6.2 points, 3.5 against ACC teams, and shot 43.7 from the field.
In the last 10 games, she has averaged 13.6 points, 14.4 against ACC teams, and shot 52.3 from the field.
After scoring in double figures just twice in her first 14 games, Sutton has hit double digits in nine of the last 10, including a career-high 19-point performance against Duke on Jan. 25 and 18 points against Wake Forest on Feb. 4. She grabbed a career-high 11 rebounds against Wake to register the first double-double of her career.
Sutton earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors on Monday, Feb. 5, after averaging 14 points and six rebounds in that week's games against Georgia Tech and Wake Forest.
She had another outstanding game at Virginia on Feb. 11, with 18 points and nine rebounds.
For the season she is now averaging 9.3 points per game, fourth on the team and fourth among the ACC's freshmen.
Sutton started the first nine games of the season, then suffered a concussion early in the ninth, against South Carolina on Dec. 21. She missed the following game, against Elon on Dec. 28, and averaged just 3.8 points over the next five games.
Junior LaShonda Allen took over the starting center spot for the Wake Forest game on Jan. 4 and Sutton came off the bench to go 0-for-2, marking the only time this season she has not scored. After Allen was injured against Virginia on Jan. 11, Sutton moved back into the starting lineup and has turned in a string of strong performances.
She keeps going and going ...
Including 50 minutes on the court in the double-overtime win against Clemson on Feb. 8 and 45 minutes in overtime games against NC State and Florida State, Coretta Brown is averaging a team-leading 38.7 minutes per game, 40.5 against conference opponents.
The sophomore guard has started every game at point guard and in nine games this season has not left the court. In addition to the overtime matchups with Clemson, NC State and Florida State, she played all 40 minutes in the Buffalo, Notre Dame, Maryland (12/9), Georgia Tech (1/2), Maryland (1/28) and Virginia (2/11) games. She also played 40 minutes in the Jan. 25th overtime game against Duke.
Too close for comfort
North Carolina's seven conference losses have come by an average of 3.6 points per game. The Tar Heels fell to Georgia Tech on Jan. 2 by seven, to Duke on Jan. 25 by seven in overtime, to Virginia on Feb. 11 by three, and to Wake Forest (Jan. 4), Virginia (Jan. 11), Maryland (Jan. 28) and Florida State (Feb. 18) by two points each.
UNC has played more close ACC games (margins of 10 points or less) than any other team. In 10 games within that margin, Carolina is 3-7.
* A combined five points is all that separated the Tar Heels and their opponents after regulation over a four-game stretch in January.
On Jan. 4, UNC lost by two at Wake Forest. In the next outing, on Jan. 8, Carolina won by one at Clemson. On Jan. 11, UNC lost by two at home against Virginia. And on Jan. 14 against NC State, the Tar Heels were tied at 73-73 at the end of regulation before going on to an 83-77 win.
Prior to the Wake Forest game, the Tar Heels had not played to a margin any closer than six points all season.
* This season's four overtime games are the most in UNC history. The Tar Heels are 2-2 in those games.
Backcourt of Browns
Carolina's duo of Browns-senior shooting guard Juana and sophomore point guard Coretta-has proven to be a productive backcourt. Through 25 games, Coretta ranks second on the team in scoring (16.3 points per game) and leads the ACC in assists (6.8 per game). Juana, who missed two games in December with a sprained knee, averages 13.9 points, third on the team.
Although senior forward LaQuanda Barksdale has the top scoring average on the team, one of the Browns has led the team in scoring in 10 of the season's 14 ACC games.
The duo turned in outstanding, nearly identical performances during a recent three-game span. Against Georgia Tech, Wake Forest and Clemson, Coretta averaged 21.0 points, 5.3 rebounds, 8.0 assists and 2.3 turnovers in 42.0 minutes per game, while Juana had 21.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, 5.3 assists and 2.3 turnovers in 41.0 minutes per game.
Coretta, who is from Statesboro, Ga., and Juana, who is from Memphis, Tenn., are not related.
Hatchell gets 300th win at UNC
In her 15th season as head coach at Carolina, Sylvia Hatchell now has more than 300 victories as coach of the Tar Heels. Number 300 came at Georgia Tech on Feb. 1, and her record at UNC now stands at 303-157.
Hatchell is in her 26th year as a head coach and holds a career record of 575-237. She ranks sixth in total victories among active women's basketball coaches.
A North Carolina native, she came to Chapel Hill prior to the 1986-87 season after leading Francis Marion College to a 272-80 record over 11 seasons. She coached the Lady Patriots to two national championships, in the AIAW small college division in 1982 and in the NAIA in 1986.
She led UNC to the 1994 NCAA title and is the only women's basketball coach to have led teams to AIAW, NAIA and NCAA Division I titles.
Help from the bench
The Tar Heel bench has contributed an average of 13.8 points per game this year, but the scoring has varied widely from game to game. The reserves were quite productive in games against N.C. A&T State (38 points) and Georgia Tech (31 points on Jan. 2), but contributed single-digit points against Clemson (five points on Jan. 8 and eight points on Feb. 8), Virginia (eight points on Feb. 11), Syracuse (six points) and Notre Dame (eight points). UNC got a season-low two points off the bench in the Jan. 28 loss at Maryland and the Feb. 4 win over Wake Forest.
In no game this season has a player come off the bench to lead the Tar Heels in scoring.
Sophomore forward Jennifer Thomas is the highest scoring reserve, averaging 5.1 points per game. She has scored in double-figures three times and her 20 points against Buffalo mark the highest total by a player off the bench this season.
Free for the taking
Carolina struggled from the foul line at the start of the season, shooting just 56.1 percent through the first six games, but began to take advantage of the freebies as the season progressed. The Tar Heels had their best performance of the season-21-of-25 for 84.0 percent-against NC State on Jan. 14. They have hit 80 percent or better in two other games.
After the slow start, UNC boosted its anemic figure significantly with the performance against Maryland on Dec. 9. Against the Terrapins, UNC was 32-for-40 from the foul line for a then-season-high shooting percentage of 80.0, which improved the team's average to 62.0 for the season.
Senior guard Leah Sharp had the standout performance in the Maryland game, hitting 15 of 16 free throws for the game and 13 of 14 in the final 2:46 of play. Her 15 makes fell just one short of tying the UNC single-game record. Sophomore guard Coretta Brown was 8 of 10 from the line and sophomore guard Cherie Lea was 5 of 6.
Carolina had another outstanding performance from the line in the loss to Wake Forest, shooting a season-high 83.8 percent (31-37). In that game, Coretta Brown was 8-for-8 and senior guard Juana Brown was 6-for-6.
UNC's season percentage is 64.8, 69.9 in conference games.
Presence in the middle
Freshman center Candace Sutton's presence has made a huge difference for UNC this season in the blocked shots department. Last season, the Tar Heels totaled 49 blocks, an average of 1.5 per game, and LaShonda Allen led the team with a total of nine. Sutton has 37 this season and the team has a total of 87, or 3.5 per game.
The Jan. 4 game against Wake Forest and the Jan. 18 game against FSU are the only outings this season in which UNC hasn't had at least one blocked shot. In 1999-2000, there were 10 games in which the Tar Heels did not have a block.
