Tar Heels Travel To Tallahassee

January 11, 2003 | Women's Basketball

By: UNC Athletic Communications

Jan. 11, 2003

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Tipoff: No. 10 UNC travels to FSU, Jan. 12
The University of North Carolina women's basketball team (13-1, 3-0 ACC) travels to Tallahassee, Fla., this weekend for a Sunday afternoon matchup with Florida State (10-3, 2-0 ACC). Tipoff is 2 p.m. at Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center.
The Tar Heels are ranked 10th in this week's Associated Press poll, ninth in the USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll. Florida State is not ranked.
Next up for UNC is another ACC road game, at Clemson on Jan. 16. The Tar Heels' next home game is on Jan. 20, when Duke visits Carmichael Auditorium for a noon tipoff.

On the air
Sunday's game will be broadcast live by the Tar Heel Radio Network. The flagship station is 1360-AM WCHL. Stephen Gates is Carolina's play-by-play announcer. Game action also is available via the internet at www.TarHeelBlue.com.

Quick facts on UNC
2002-03 Record: 13-1 (3-0 ACC)
Current Rankings: 10th AP, 9th USAToday/ ESPN
Head Coach: Sylvia Hatchell (Carson-Newman, 1974)
Career Record: 615-250 (in her 28th season)
Record at UNC: 343-170 (in her 17th season)
Assistant Head Coach: Andrew Calder
Assistant Coaches: Tracey Williams, Charlotte Smith-Taylor
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
* UNC's 13-1 start is the team's best since 1998-99, when the Tar Heels opened the season 17-1.
* North Carolina leads the series with Florida State 20-6
* Carolina and FSU are two of just three teams that remain undefeated in ACC play. UNC is 3-0, while the Seminoles are 2-0. Duke is also 2-0, but the other six teams all have at least one conference loss.
* North Carolina's La'Tangela Atkinson and Florida State's Ganiyat Adedtuntan have proven to be two of the league's top freshmen. Thus far in the season, each has earned two ACC Rookie of the Week honors, while no other player has earned more than one.
* In the latest NCAA statistics, North Carolina leads the nation in rebounding margin and ranks in the top 20 in six other categories.
* Carolina's current rankings of 10th in the AP poll and ninth in the coaches' poll are the team's highest of the season. The last time the Tar Heels were ranked in the top 10 was the week of Jan. 3, 2000, when UNC was ninth in both polls.
* Senior guard Coretta Brown is the reigning ACC Player of the Week after averaging 16.3 points in Carolina's three wins last week. In conference victories against Georgia Tech and NC State, she averaged 20 points and shot 65 percent from the field. The honor is the first of her career.

UNC's statistical leaders
Scoring: Coretta Brown (12.5 points per game)
Rebounding: La'Tangela Atkinson (7.9 per game)
Assists: Leah Metcalf (4.7 per game)
Steals: Nikita Bell (2.6 per game)
Blocks: Candace Sutton (1.6 per game)
Field goal percentage: Carrie Davis, Jenni Laaksonen (55.6 percent)
Minutes per game: Coretta Brown (31.2 per game)

Tar Heels in the NCAA statistical rankings
(Through games of Jan. 6, 2003)
Scoring offense: 17th
Scoring defense: Tied for 12th
Scoring margin: 8th
Field goal percentage: 19th
Field goal percentage defense: 5th
Rebounding margin: 1st
Win-loss percentage: Tied for 6th

Statistically notable
* UNC has not allowed 70 points in any game this season. South Carolina's 69 points is the season high by an opponent.
* Only one opponent has shot 40 percent from the field. Oklahoma shot 46.7 percent in handing UNC its only loss
* UNC has outrebounded 12 of its 14 opponents. Davidson (44-43) and South Carolina (42-40) are the only teams to have beaten UNC on the boards this season.
* Six different Carolina players have led the team in scoring or tied for the scoring lead in the Tar Heels' first 14 games. The same is true on the boards, where six different Tar Heels have led the team in rebounding or tied for the team lead.

Scouting the Florida State Seminoles
FSU is 10-3 on the season and 2-0 in the ACC following a 64-55 win over NC State on Wednesday night. Tasheika Morris led the Seminoles with 15 points in the homecourt victory against the Wolfpack, and Trinetta Moore added 14 points and led the team with seven rebounds. FSU's only losses have been to Florida and Northern Arizona on the road and to Connecticut at home. The Seminoles opened ACC play with a 63-61 win at Wake Forest.
On the season, Morris is the team's leading scorer with 14.2 points per game. Genesis Choice is next, averaging 8.9. Three other players average more than seven points per game. Katelyn Vujas is the team's top rebounder with 6.5 per game.
The Seminoles are coached by Sue Semrau, who is 70-85 in her sixth season with the program.

The North Carolina-Florida State series
Sunday's game will be the 27th meeting in a series that dates back to the 1981-82 season. North Carolina leads 20-6 and won both of last year's meetings, 93-81 in Tallahassee on Jan. 2, 2002, and 93-63 in Chapel Hill on Feb. 4, 2002.
The Seminoles' last win in the series was during the 2000-01 season, when they beat the Tar Heels 80-78 in overtime in Chapel Hill on Feb. 18, 2001.
Last year's meetings:
No. 19 UNC 93, FSU 81
(Jan. 2, 2002, at Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center)
Four UNC players scored in double-figures, led by Coretta Brown's 21 points. Candace Sutton had 16 and Chrystal Baptist turned in a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds. Kenya McBee came off the bench to score a then-career-high 14 points. The Tar Heels trailed 41-40 at halftime, but outrebounded FSU 28-14 in the second half. April Traylor led the Seminoles with 24 points, including four three-pointers.
No. 24 UNC 93, FSU 63
(Feb. 4, 2002, at Carmichael Auditorium in Chapel Hill)
Nikki Teasley scored 22 points and handed out nine rebounds to lead UNC to a 30-point win, the team's largest margin of victory of the 2002 ACC season. Coretta Brown scored 18 points and the Tar Heels got 12 points each from Jennifer Thomas and Candace Sutton. Genesis Choice led three Seminoles in double figures with 14 points in just 17 minutes of play.