University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina NewsStand Archive: Feb. 25-March 1
March 19, 2002 | Baseball
Sunday, March 3, 2002
MBB: Heels Dynasty in Disarray
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga and Ned Barnett
They liken themselves to a family, and for most of this season of worsts, the clan of North Carolina basketball fans, former players and alumni has suffered together...
MBB: UNC Avoids Play-in Game
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
Duke and North Carolina, get used to seeing each other.
The results of Saturday's games set the pairings for next weekend's ACC Tournament, and the Blue Devils and Tar Heels will meet in the quarterfinals for the first time...
WBB: Teasley Pumped For An ACC Title
Durham Herald-Sun/By Jim Furlong
GREENSBORO -- Nikki Teasley knows the final curtain will soon fall on her collegiate career. Before she moves on to play for pay, the fifth-year North Carolina senior point guard wants to lead the Tar Heels to the top of the ACC...
Friday, March 1, 2002
MBB: Wojcik Sets Sights On WVU Job
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
Doug Wojcik has neither the marquee name nor the head coaching experience to be handed the top job at West Virginia University immediately, but as auditions go, this one was pretty close to perfect...
Thursday, February 28, 2002
MBB: Still 0-For-Chapel Hill
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL - Even in these, the strangest of times, there is some order. The sun still rises in the east. Taxes will be due April 15. And North Carolina, despite everything that has happened to the Tar Heels over the past three months, still whups up on Clemson at home...
MBB: One Streak Stands
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Clemson was in town Wednesday night, and that was enough - even in this miserable basketball season - for North Carolina to feel good about itself again...
MBB: It Looked Like The Good Old Days For UNC
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- Welcome to never-never land. Maybe, just maybe, it can best be put it like this: Some things just aren't meant to be and Clemson winning in Chapel Hill is one of them. Either that or somebody just plain forgot to notify the Tigers this was the season they could do it...
FB: Huxtable Gets Coordinator Post
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL - North Carolina football coach John Bunting introduced Dave Huxtable as his defensive coordinator Wednesday, hoping it would be his last major change before spring practice begins next month...
FB: UNC Names Huxtable Defensive Coordinator
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- John Bunting didn't have to look very far for a defensive coordinator when Jon Tenuta left suddenly for Georgia Tech 16 days ago...
Wednesday, February 27, 2002
FB: Stephens Step Up
Raleigh News & Observer/By Rupen Fofaria
CHAPEL HILL - With quarterback Darian Durant suddenly out of the picture, the North Carolina football team may wind up pinning its hopes on a transfer from Florida who has taken only one snap in a college football game...
MBB: Tar Heels Have One Last Streak To Go
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
RALEIGH -- Many of the coveted streaks the North Carolina men's basketball team had going back in October will be gone officially at season's end...
FB: Durant Disapperas Into The Unknown
Chapel Hill News/By William Elliott Warnock
CHAPEL HILL -- It was one of the stranger events in what has often been a twisting, winding road for University of North Carolina athletics...
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
FB: UNC's Durant To Transfer
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
CHAPEL HILL - Darian Durant, the record-setting freshman quarterback who played a huge role in North Carolina's football renaissance last fall, has decided to transfer from UNC -- the latest development to rock the Tar Heels during the off-season...
FB: Durant To Transfer From UNC
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- Quarterback Darian Durant, who had considered leaving UNC at least two other times, announced Monday that he will transfer to another school after this semester...
FB: UNC Names Defensive Backs Coach
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
UNC named Jim Fleming defensive-backs coach Monday, which means the school likely will announce current assistant Dave Huxtable as defensive coordinator...
Heels' Struggles Dent Bottom Line
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
CHAPEL HILL -- Duke is in town, tipoff is less than an hour away, and the scalpers outside the Smith Center are getting nervous...
Monday, February 25, 2002
MBB: Scare Turns Romp
Raleigh News & Observer/By Chip Alexander
RALEIGH - For a long time Sunday, the song selection seemed almost prophetic...
MBB: Heels Defense Withers
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
RALEIGH - It was all going so well. Really, it was.
There was North Carolina -- downtrodden, depressed North Carolina --romping into N.C. State's raucous Entertainment and Sports Arena, and charging to a 10-point halftime lead...
MBB: Tar Heels Looking For Answers
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
RALEIGH -- Jawad Williams sat glumly in the visitor's locker room Sunday night, holding a bag of ice on his left wrist. Asked if he knew the severity of the injury, which happened in the midst of N.C. State's game-sealing run, Williams said: "I don't know. I don't have any feeling at all."...
MBB: Comeback Special For Pack
Durham Herald-Sun/By Al Featherston
RALEIGH -- N.C. State tried to blow out North Carolina before the first TV timeout Sunday at the Entertainment and Sports Arena...
WBB: Duke Women Rout UNC To Complete ACC Perfection
Durham Herald-Sun/By Al Featherston
CHAPEL HILL -- A giant-sized blitz early in the second half Sunday powered the Duke women to a 90-75 victory over North Carolina and enabled the Blue Devils to complete a perfect ACC regular season...
