University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Women Travel to NC State
February 9, 2002 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 9, 2002
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Tipoff: UNC travels to NC State, Feb. 10
The University of North Carolina women's basketball team (18-6, 7-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) travels across the Triangle to take on NC State (11-11, 5-6) Sunday. Tipoff is 2 p.m. at Reynolds Coliseum.
UNC is ranked 24th in this week's Associated Press poll, 23rd in the USA Today/ESPN poll. NC State is not ranked.
Next up for the Tar Heels is a home game against Clemson on Thursday, Feb. 14. Tipoff is 7 p.m. at Carmichael Auditorium.
On the air
Sunday's game will be televised live nationally by ESPN2. Michele Tafoya will handle play-by-play announcer and Nancy Lieberman will provide color commentary.
The 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. The radio broadcast is also available via the internet at www.TarHeelBlue.com.
Quick facts on UNC
2001-02 Record: 18-6 (7-4 ACC)
Current Rankings: 24th A.P., 23rd USA Today/ESPN
Head Coach: Sylvia Hatchell (Carson-Newman, 1974)
Career Record: 594-246 (in her 27th season)
Record at UNC: 322-166 (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
* NC State leads the series with UNC 47-22.
* Carolina's last win at Reynolds Coliseum was during the 1993-94 season, when the Tar Heels won the NCAA Championship. That year, they defeated the Wolfpack 87-66 in Raleigh on Jan. 27.
* The Tar Heels are coming off a nonconference win against Villanova in which they hit season lows for field goals (14), field goal attempts (50), three-point attempts (10), assists (5) and points (49). UNC tied its school record for fewest points in a win, set in a 49-40 victory against Virginia in 1976.
* Prior to the win over the Wildcats, UNC was 0-5 this season when shooting lower than 40 percent.
* Junior Coretta Brown's current career three-point shooting percentage of 36.3 is the best in school history. She is shooting 53.8 percent (14-26) from long range over the last four games.
* Sophomore Candace Sutton needs two blocks to take over fifth place on UNC's career list. She currently ranks sixth with 95, Henrietta Walls (1980-83) is in fifth with 96.
* With 214 career three-pointers, senior guard Nikki Teasley now ranks seventh in Atlantic Coast Conference history in that category and is second all-time at UNC. She needs seven more to take over sixth place in the ACC, 14 to become Carolina's leader.
* Tar Heel coach Sylvia Hatchell is six wins away from recording her 600th career victory.
* Brown and Teasley rank among the ACC's top five in scoring, three-point percentage, three-pointers made and assists.
UNC's statistical leaders
Scoring: Coretta Brown (15.9 points per game)
Rebounding: Chrystal Baptist (8.3 per game)
Assists: Leah Metcalf (4.8 per game)
Steals: Leah Metcalf (2.5 per game)
Blocks: Candace Sutton (2.4 per game)
Field goal percentage: Jennifer Thomas (56.6, 47-83)
Three-point percentage: Nikki Teasley (40.7, 55-135)
Free throw percentage: Nikki Teasley (84.8, 67-79)
Minutes per game: Coretta Brown (33.5 per game)
UNC players in the ACC rankings
Through games of Feb. 8
Scoring: 4. Coretta Brown (15.9), 5. Nikki Teasley (15.3), 18. Candace Sutton (11.3), 21. Leah Metcalf (10.7)
Rebounding: 3. Chrystal Baptist (8.3), T10. Candace Sutton (6.2), 16. Coretta Brown (5.2)
Field goal percentage: 3. Candace Sutton (47.5), 9. Coretta Brown (44.5)
Free throw percentage: 2. Nikki Teasley (84.8)
Three-point percentage: 1. Nikki Teasley (40.7), 3. Coretta Brown (38.9)
Assists: 3. Leah Metcalf (4.75), 4. Nikki Teasley (4.64), 5. Coretta Brown (3.79)
Steals: T2. Leah Metcalf (2.50), 4. Nikki Teasley (2.36), 9. Nikita Bell (1.79)
Blocks: 1. Candace Sutton (2.39), 10. Chrystal Baptist (0.79)
Three-pointers made: 1. Coretta Brown (2.54), 2. Nikki Teasley (2.50), 8. Leah Metcalf (1.46 per game)
Assist/turnover ratio: 4. Nikki Teasley (1.55), 6. Leah Metcalf (1.34), 7. Coretta Brown (1.34)
UNC in the NCAA rankings
Through games of Feb. 4
Team : Third in scoring offense (83.7), 16th in three-pointers per game (7.0), 17th in scoring margin (15.3),
Individuals: Candace Sutton, 17th in blocks per game (2.5), Nikki Teasley, T33rd in three-pointers per game (2.6), Coretta Brown, 38th in three-pointers per game (2.5), Nikki Teasley, 35th in three-point percentage (41.2)
Scouting the NC State Wolfpack
NC State is 11-11 on the season and 5-6 in the Atlantic Coast Conference following a 69-57 loss Thursday at Georgia Tech. The Wolfpack has lost its last two games after back-to-back wins over Maryland and Wake Forest.
Sophomore center Kaayla Chones leads the team with 12.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per game and has the team's best field goal percentage, 58.0. Sophomore forward Carisse Moody also is scoring in double figures with 11.3 points per game.
NC State is coached by Kay Yow, who is in her 27th season with the program.
The North Carolina-NC State series
Sunday's game is the 70th women's basketball meeting between North Carolina and NC State. The Wolfpack leads the series 47-22 and has won seven of the last eight meetings.
In this year's first matchup, NC State won 66-63 at the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill. In the most recent game in Raleigh, NC State defeated UNC 84-73 on Feb. 22, 2001.
* UNC's last victory in the series came on Jan. 14, 2001, in Chapel Hill, when the Tar Heels won 83-77 in overtime. Coretta Brown, who played all 45 minutes of the game, scored the team's last five points in regulation and six of its 10 in overtime to lead UNC.
* Carolina's last win at Reynolds Coliseum was during the 1993-94 season, when the Tar Heels won the NCAA Championship. That year, they defeated the Wolfpack 87-66 in Raleigh on Jan. 27. Sylvia Crawley, now a UNC assistant coach, started at center for Carolina and was one of five players, all starters, to score in double figures. She had 15 points on 6-for-9 shooting from the field. Charlotte Smith led UNC in scoring with 18 points.
UNC has lost seven consecutive games in Raleigh since then.
This season's first meeting
Jan. 10: NC State 66, No. 17 UNC 63
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-Carolina suffered its first home loss of the season, shooting season-low percentages in field goals (26.0 percent) and three-pointers (19.2 percent) at the Dean E. Smith Center.
Talisha Scates' layup with nine seconds to play proved to be the game-winner for NC State, which went up 64-63. UNC didn't answer and Scates hit two free throws for the final margin.
Carolina jumped out to a 7-0 lead, but NC State erased that with an 8-0 run of its own. After that, neither team led by more than four throughout the rest of the game.
NC State's Kaayla Chones played all 40 minutes and led the Wolfpack with 26 points and 16 rebounds. Amy Simpson added 16 points and Scates totaled 15.
Chrystal Baptist and Coretta Brown led UNC with 16 points each. Leah Metcalf also scored in double figures with 14 and Nikki Teasley added 11. Baptist and Sutton led UNC in rebounds with nine each, but the Tar Heels were beaten 59-40 on the boards.
Sutton suffered a sprained ankle with 6:27 remaining in the first half, but was able to return for 14 minutes in the second half. She finished with nine rebounds, four blocks and a season-low three points.
Looking back at the last meeting in Raleigh
Feb. 22, 2001: No. 17 NC State 84, UNC 73
RALEIGH, N.C.-The Wolfpack avenged a loss in the first matchup of the season with an 84-73 win over UNC at Reynolds Coliseum. The 11-point margin was UNC's largest of the regular season in an ACC defeat.
NC State senior Tynesha Lewis led the Wolfpack with 25 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists for the second triple-double in school history.
North Carolina led 30-26 with 6:15 left in the first half. But Lewis scored five points in a 9-1 run to give the Wolfpack a 35-31 halftime lead.
Freshman center Candace Sutton scored two consecutive baskets at the start of the second half to tie the game, but those were the Tar Heels' only field goals in the first 6:42 of the half.
NC State took control with a 18-5 run and North Carolina never got closer than 11 points the rest of the way.
Carisse Moody added 15 points and Talisha Scates had 11 for the Wolfpack.
LaQuanda Barksdale had 18 points to lead five Carolina players in double figures. Coretta Brown and Juana Brown each scored 13 for the Tar Heels, while Sutton added 11 and Chrystal Baptist had 10, all in the second half.
NC State shot 64.5 percent from the floor in the second half and 51.6 for the game, the highest of the season by a UNC opponent.
UNC's last win in the series
Jan. 14, 2001: UNC 83, No. 19 NC State 77, OT
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-Coretta Brown led the way for Carolina with 22 points, six of them in overtime, as the Tar Heels won at the Dean E. Smith Center. She scored the team's final five points in regulation, including a three-point play on a jumper in the lane and a free throw that put UNC up 73-71 with six seconds to play. NC State's Amy Simpson hit two free throws with no time remaining on the clock to send the game into overtime.
Brown's driving one-hander in 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. After NC State's Tynesha Lewis hit for two to close the margin to two, the Wolfpack missed its last two attempts, while UNC's Leah Sharp made four straight free throws in the final 15 seconds.
LaQuanda Barksdale had 21 points and 15 rebounds for North Carolina. In addition to her 22 points, Brown had seven assists, four rebounds and three steals while playing all 45 minutes.
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 Chrystal Baptist with 10:38 to play, neither team led by more than four points until the final margin.
The win was the second over a ranked team in a week for the unranked Tar Heels. They had beaten No. 16 Clemson 71-70 six days earlier.
Getting to the point
After playing mostly on the wing early in the season, senior Nikki Teasley has started the last four games at the point guard spot, and UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell couldn't be happier with the results. While Teasley's overall scoring has decreased, she has handled the ball well and led the team to four consecutive wins, three of them against conference teams.
In victories over Virginia and Maryland, Teasley averaged 11.0 points, down significantly from her season average of 15.4, but handed out 6.5 assists per game to just 2.0 turnovers. She averaged 58.3 percent from the field and 71.4 percent (5-7) from three-point range.
"She's not scoring big numbers, but she's running our team," Hatchell said after the Maryland game. "She's playing good team basketball. That's more important than having her score 20-something points a game."
Against Florida State, though, Teasley ran the team and scored 20-something. The senior guard poured in 22 points, including five of her seven three-point attempts, while handing out a season-high nine assists in the win over the Seminoles. She also had two blocks and two steals and committed just one turnover in 33 minutes of play.
Teasley suffered the same shooting woes as the rest of the team against Villanova, hitting 2 of 9 attempts from the floor and two free throws for seven points. She also had one assist and three turnovers in 34 minutes.
Teasley vs. Virginia
3-5 fg (60.0%), 2-3 3fg (66.7%), one rebound, seven assists, three turnovers, two steals, 10 points, 26 minutes
Teasley vs. Maryland
4-7 fg (57.1%), 3-4 3fg (75.0%), four rebounds, six assists, one turnover, one block, three steals, 12 points, 37 minutes
Teasley vs. Florida State
8-13 fg (61.5%), 5-7 3fg (71.4%), four rebounds, nine assists, one turnover, two blocks, two steals, 22 points, 33 minutes
* With Teasley handling the ball more, backcourt-mate Coretta Brown has flourished. She's averaging 19.7 points and shooting 64.7 percent from the field over the last three conference games.
Brown also led the team in scoring with 15 points (5-12 from the field) against Villanova.
Brown vs. Virginia
8-11 fg (72.7%), 4-6 3fg (66.7%)
Brown vs. Maryland
7-11 fg (63.6%), 3-6 3fg (50.0%)
Brown vs. Florida State
7-12 fg (58.3%), 4-9 3fg (44.4%)
Back on track
The Tar Heels snapped a three-game losing streak with their Jan. 27 win over Virginia, and turned out one of their best performances of the season in the process. UNC shot 54.4 percent (31-57) from the field, the third-highest percentage of the season and the best this year against an ACC team. The Tar Heels shot 6-for-15 from three-point range (40.0 percent), led by junior guard Coretta Brown, who was 4-for-6 from long range. Brown was 8-for-11 overall for a team-high 22 points in the win.
* UNC bettered that shooting performance against Florida State on Feb. 4. The Tar Heels hit 34 of their 62 attempts for a percentage of 54.8, tied for the second best of the year and the highest against a conference opponent. The Tar Heels shot better than 50 percent from the field just three times in their first 20 games of the season, but did so twice in the next three outings.
Numbers dive against Villanova
UNC headed into Wednesday's nonconference game with Villanova averaging 83.7 points per game, third-highest in the NCAA, but had its lowest scoring output of the season in the 49-45 win over the Wildcats. Up to that point, UNC's lowest points total this year had been 53 against South Carolina and its lowest winning total had been 68 against Maryland.
The scoring total tied the UNC record for fewest points scored in a win, set in a 49-40 win over Virginia in 1976.
Carolina hit a number of other season lows against Villanova:
* Fewest field goals: 19
* Fewest field goal attempts: 50
* Fewest field goal attempts: 10
* Fewest assists: 5
* Fewest total points: 49
Villanova also established several season marks for UNC opponents:
* Most three-point attempts: 38
* Fewest turnovers: 7
Hatchell closing in on 600th win
Sylvia Hatchell, head women's basketball coach at UNC since 1986, started the season just 24 wins away from her 600th career victory. With 576 wins heading into the 2001-02 slate, she ranked seventh among active Division I head coaches in all-time victories.
In her 27th season as a head coach, Hatchell's career record currently stands at 594-246.
She coached at Francis Marion College from 1976-85, compiling a 272-80 record and winning a pair of national championships. At UNC since the 1986-87 season, Hatchell has a record of 322-166 in her 16th season as coach of the Tar Heels. She has led the team to four Atlantic Coast Conference championships and to the 1994 NCAA Championship.
Hatchell is the only women's basketball coach to have led teams to national championships in the NCAA, NAIA and AIAW.
Last time out for UNC
Feb. 6: UNC 49, Villanova 45
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-Behind 15 points and a career-high 11 rebounds from junior guard Coretta Brown, UNC edged visiting Villanova 49-45 Wednesday at Carmichael Auditorium. The win bumped UNC to 18-6 on the season, while the Wildcats fell to 12-9.
The Tar Heels led by as many as seven in the first half and were up by four, 27-23, at halftime. The margin was never greater than five in the second half, and Villanova took a one-point lead, 40-39, on a pair of free throws by sophomore Courtney Mix with 6:17 to play.
Freshman Nikita Bell gave UNC the advantage again on a steal and layup with 4:49 remaining, and Carolina never trailed again.
The Tar Heels logged season lows in field goals (14), field goal attempts (50), field goal percentage (28.0), three-point attempts (10), assists (5) and points in the win. UNC's 49 points tied a school record for lowest score in a win, set in a 49-40 victory over Virginia on Feb. 7, 1976.
Brown was the only UNC player in double figures. Sophomore Candace Sutton scored nine points and grabbed six rebounds. Senior Nikki Teasley tied her season high with eight rebounds.
Junior Trish Juhline led Villanova with 10 points, including a pair of free throws that pulled the Wildcats within two with 40 seconds to play. UNC's Sutton put back a miss by Brown with 13 seconds remaining for the final score.
Villanova attempted 38 three-pointers, a high by a UNC opponent this season. The Wildcats committed just seven turnovers, a season low for a Tar Heel opponent.
