University of North Carolina Athletics
ACC Championship Game Notes
March 10, 2003 | Women's Basketball
March 10, 2003
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Tipoff: UNC in the ACC Championship, March 10
The University of North Carolina women's basketball team (27-4 overall, 13-3 ACC) will take on Duke (30-1, 16-0 ACC) Monday evening for the 2003 ACC Championship. Tipoff at Greensboro Coliseum is 7:30 p.m. Duke is the tournament's top seed and UNC is the No. 2 seed.
The Tar Heels are ranked 11th in this week's Associated Press poll and ninth in the ESPN/USA Today/WBCA coaches' poll. Duke is ranked second in both polls.
On the air
Monday's game will be televised live nationally by Fox Sports Net. Beth Mowins will call the play-by-play and Debbie Antonelli will provide color commentary.
The game also will be broadcast live on radio station 1360-AM WCHL. Stephen Gates is Carolina's play-by-play announcer and Jones Angell provides color commentary.
Live stats will be available on the ACC website, www.TheACC.com.
News of note
* UNC and Duke will meet for the tournament championship for the second consecutive year and the third time in the last four seasons. Duke beat Carolina 87-80 in 2002 and 79-76 in 2000.
* North Carolina leads the series with Duke 36-24, but the Blue Devils have won eight games in a row. Two of the wins in that string have come in ACC Tournament championship games.
* UNC is playing in its eighth championship game in the last 10 years. The Tar Heels have won four titles during that span, five overall.
* After its victory Sunday against Virginia, North Carolina has now won 36 ACC Tournament games, more than any other school. Maryland has won 35.
* Coretta Brown became UNC's career leader in three-pointers during Saturday's game against Clemson and now has a total of 241.She also has the program's best career three-point percentage, 37.8, which ranks 13th in ACC history.
* With three three-pointers against Virginia, Coretta Brown moved into a tie for third place on the ACC's career list. With 241 three-pointers, she is tied with Georgia Tech's Danielle Donehew (1997-2000). In second is Clemson's Tara Saunooke (1992-95) with 252.
* Coretta Brown needs six assists to take over fourth place on UNC's career list. Emily Johnson (1989-92) holds fourth place with 511. Brown heads into the title game with 505.
* With 20 points against Clemson, junior center Candace Sutton became the 21st UNC player to reach the 1,000-career-points mark. Sutton came into the game eight shy of that milestone and now has 1,017.
* North Carolina is 24-0 this season when leading or tied at halftime, 23-0 this season when scoring 70 points or more and 22-0 when shooting 40 percent or better from the field.
* Four Tar Heels earned All-ACC honors earlier this week. Coretta Brown was named All-ACC first team for the second year, Nikita Bell was named to the second team and Candace Sutton earned a spot on the third team. La'Tangela Atkinson led the All-Freshman Team and Bell claimed a spot on the All-Defensive Team.
* Senior forward Jennifer Thomas is the recipient of the 2003 Robin Roberts/WBCA Sports Communication Scholarship Award, announced Thursday by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.
* With a 94-77 victory Feb. 27 against Maryland, UNC reached the 25-win mark for the seventh time in school history, all in the last 10 seasons. The win gave Carolina a 15-1 homecourt record for the year.
