University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Opens 2003-04 Season on Saturday Night
November 21, 2003 | Men's Basketball
Nov. 21, 2003
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The Tar Heels begin regular-season play for the 2003-04 season on Saturday night at 8 p.m. versus Old Dominion in Roy Williams' first regular-season game as Carolina's head coach.
This is the fourth consecutive year in which the Tar Heels open the regular season at the Smith Center. Overall, the Tar Heels are 82-11 in season openers and 86-7 in home openers. UNC has won 67 of its last 72 season openers and 70 of its last 72 home openers.
Carolina has lost home openers in 1911-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1918-19, 1928-29, 1999-2000 and 2001-02. Since 1930, The Tar Heels have dropped season opening games in 1965-66 (at Clemson), 1982-83 (vs. St. Johns's), 1996-97 (vs. Arizona) and 2001-02 (Hampton).
BROADCAST INFO
Saturday's game will be televised regionally by Raycom-Jefferson Pilot. Steve Martin (play-by-play) and Mike Gminski (analyst) will have the call.
This season, 26 of 27 regular-season Carolina games will be televised (the lone exception is the Dec. 30 game with Coastal Carolina).
The game also will be broadcast live on radio by the Tar Heel Sports Network, for which Woody Durham (play-by-play) and Mick Mixon (analyst) begin their 15th year together calling the action for Carolina Basketball. For the third straight season, former UNC All-America Phil Ford (analyst) joins Durham and Mixon on the broadcast team.
All Carolina men's basketball games may be heard on the Internet at TarHeelBlue.com.
SERIES VS. OLD DOMINION
Carolina leads the all-time series with Old Dominion, 6-0, with all six meetings coming since the 1988-89 season. The Tar Heels have beaten the Monarchs in 1988-89, 1989-90, 1992-93, 1993-1994, 1997-98 and 2002-03.
Last season, the Tar Heels beat ODU, 67-59, in the first-ever game at the Constant Convocation Center in Norfolk, Va. In that contest, Carolina's starting frontcourt of Jawad Williams, Sean May and Rashad McCants combined for 51 points to lead UNC to the victory. The Tar Heels held the Monarchs to 29.2 percent shooting from the floor, Carolina's second-best defensive effort of the season (bested only against St. John's, when the Red Storm shot 28.2 percent).
