University of North Carolina Athletics
No. 10 Tar Heels Host Wake Thursday
January 8, 2003 | Women's Basketball
Jan. 8, 2003
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Tipoff: No. 11 UNC hosts Wake Forest, Jan. 9
The University of North Carolina women's basketball team (12-1, 2-0 ACC) hosts Wake Forest (10-2, 1-1 ACC) Thursday for an Atlantic Coast Conference matchup. Tipoff is 7 p.m. at Carmichael Auditorium.
The Tar Heels are ranked 10th in this week's Associated Press poll, ninth in the USA Today/ESPN coaches' poll. Wake Forest is not ranked but is among teams receiving votes in the coaches' poll.
Next up for UNC is a pair of ACC road games, at FSU on Jan. 12 and 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
Thursday'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 and Jones Angell provides color commentary. Game action also is available via the internet at www.TarHeelBlue.com.
Quick facts on UNC
2002-03 Record: 12-1 (2-0 ACC)
2001-02 Record: 26-9 (11-5 ACC)
Current Rankings: 10th AP, 9th USAToday/ ESPN
Head Coach: Sylvia Hatchell (Carson-Newman, 1974)
Career Record: 614-250 (in her 28th season)
Record at UNC: 342-170 (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 12-1 start is the team's best since 1998-99, when the Tar Heels opened the season 17-1.
* North Carolina leads the series with Wake Forest 46-11, but the teams have split their games in the last three years, with each winning three on its home court. The Demon Deacons last won in Chapel Hill in 1991.
* In the ACC's team statistics, UNC and Wake hold second and third place in six categories: Scoring offense (UNC 79.0 ppg, WFU 72.5), scoring defense (UNC 54.0, WFU 58.2), scoring margin (UNC +25.0, WFU +14.2), three-point percentage (UNC .331, WFU .329), three-pointers per game (WFU 6.08, UNC 4.54) and assist-turnover ratio (WFU 1.15, UNC 0.90).
* 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.
* Sophomore guard Leah Metcalf is averaging 14.3 points and 6.0 assists over the last three games. In the season's first 10 games, she averaged 7.1 points and 3.9 assists.
* With two blocks against NC State, junior center Candace Sutton took over second place on the school's career blocks list. She now has 128.
UNC's statistical leaders
Scoring: Coretta Brown (12.8 points per game)
Rebounding: La'Tangela Atkinson (8.0 per game)
Assists: Leah Metcalf (4.4 per game)
Steals: Nikita Bell (2.5 per game)
Blocks: Candace Sutton (1.6 per game)
Field goal percentage: Carrie Davis (60.0 percent)
Minutes per game: Coretta Brown (31.2 per game)
Scouting the Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Wake Forest is 10-2 on the season and 1-1 in the ACC following a 77-66 win Sunday over >visiting Virginia. Five Wake Forest players scored in double figures, led by senior forward Tiffani Listenbee's 15 points. Junior forward Eafton Hill scored 14 points and led WFU with seven rebounds.
Hill is the team's top scorer on the season with 13.1 points per game and also leads the Demon Deacons in rebounding with 7.1 per game. Also scoring in double figures are junior guard Tonia Brown (11.8 points per game) and freshman guard Cotelia Bond-Young (11.6).
Wake Forest is coached by Charlene Curtis, who is 51-99 in her sixth season with the program.
The North Carolina-Wake Forest series
Thursday's game will be the 58th meeting in a series that dates back to the 1974-75 season, UNC's first of varsity competition. The Tar Heels lead 46-11 overall, but the series has been split 3-3 in the last three years, with each team winning on its own home court.
Wake Forest has not won in Chapel Hill since the 1990-91 season, when the Demon Deacons earned a 77-65 victory on Jan. 12, 1991.
Last year's meetings:
No. 18 UNC 90, Wake Forest 68
(Dec. 5, 2001, at Carmichael Auditorium in Chapel Hill)
In the ACC opener for both teams, Coretta Brown scored 23 points to lead five Tar Heels in double figures. Wake Forest was within six points with 10 minutes to play before UNC went on a 12-0 run to put the game away. Carolina shot 46.7 percent from the field (to 41.0 by Wake) and won the rebounding battle 51-38. Tonia Brown led WFU with 17 points.
Wake Forest 65, No. 21 UNC 64
(Jan. 21, 2002, at the Joel Coliseum Annex in Winston-Salem)
UNC dropped its second ACC game in a row (the Tar Heels were coming off a homecourt loss to Georgia Tech) and lost in Winston-Salem for the third consecutive year. Four Tar Heels scored in double figures, led by Leah Metcalf with 17, and UNC outrebounded Wake Forest 52-47. Wake shot 36.2 percent to 31.8 percent by UNC, and Tonia Brown led the way with 16 points.
