No. 5 Tar Heels Host Charleston Southern

Nov. 22, 2004

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Tip-off
No. 5 North Carolina hosts Charleston Southern on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Carmichael Auditorium. The Tar Heels are 2-0 on the season following a 71-65 win over No. 4 Connecticut on Sunday at the Jimmy V Classic in Raleigh. Charleston Southern is 0-1 after dropping its opener 75-56 to College of Charleston on Friday.
UNC is ranked No. 5 in this week's Associated Press poll. The Tar Heels were No. 12 in last week's coaches' poll, which is released on Tuesdays. Charleston Southern is not ranked.

Up next
The Tar Heels head to Las Vegas on Wednesday for the Lady Rebel Shootout, hosted by UNLV. UNC will play No. 24 Villanova on Friday then face either the host team or Texas-Arlington on Saturday. Carolina's next home game is on Dec. 1 against Wofford.

On the air
Tuesday's game will not air on radio or television. Live scoring is available on the UNC website at www.TarHeelBlue.com.

UNC at a glance
2004-05 record 2-0 (0-0 ACC)
2003-04 record 24-7 (12-4 ACC)
Current rankings 5th A.P., 12th ESPN/USA Today
Head coach Sylvia Hatchell
Career record 656-262 (30th season)
Record at UNC 384-182 (19th season)
Assistant head coach Andrew Calder
Assistant coaches Tracey Williams, Charlotte Smith-Taylor
Media contact Dana Gelin
Gelin's phone/email (919) 962-0083/dgelin@uncaa.unc.edu
UNC athletics website www.TarHeelBlue.com
UNC ticket office (919) 962-2296, (800) 722-4335
Home arena Carmichael Auditorium (cap. 10,180)
Press row number (919) 843-9509

News to note

UNC leads the series with Charleston Southern 5-0.

The Lady Bucs are coached by Stephanie Lawrence Yelton, a former UNC player and member of the Tar Heels' 1994 NCAA Championship team.

Carolina's current ranking of No. 5 in the Associated Press poll is the team's highest showing in the AP poll since a No. 5 ranking on Nov. 23, 1998. UNC moved up from ninth.

Sophomore guard Ivory Latta was named ACC Player of the Week and freshman forward Erlana Larkins was named ACC Rookie of the Week following the team's first two games.

The Tar Heels' win over No. 4 Connecticut was the program's first against a top-five team since UNC beat the Huskies in the 1994 East Region final to advance to the Final Four. UConn was ranked No. 4.

With six assists against UConn, senior Leah Metcalf moved into sixth place on UNC's career list with 405, passing Marion Jones (403).

The Tar Heels won both of their preseason exhibition games, 101-69 over EA Sports on Nov. 4 and 92-57 over Athletes in Action on Nov. 16. Nikita Bell's 21 points led UNC the first game, and Camille Little was the high scorer with 24 in the second.

At the conference media day in October, North Carolina was picked as the preseason favorite to win this year's ACC title. The Tar Heels received 20 of 40 votes, two more than defending champion Duke. Ivory Latta and Camille Little were named to the Preseason All-ACC team.

Latta and Little are listed as preseason candidates for both the Wade Trophy and the Naismith Award.

UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in June. She is in her 30th season as a head coach.

The UNC-Charleston Southern series
North Carolina leads the series with Charleston Southern 5-0. The most recent matchup was on Dec. 29, 2002, when UNC won 84-49 at Carmichael Auditorium.
Series History
Dec. 8, 1989: UNC 102, Charleston Southern 58 (H - Carmichael)
Dec. 10, 1990: UNC 79, Charleston Southern 41 (H - Smith Center)
Jan. 2, 1992: UNC 96, Charleston Southern 36 (A)
Dec. 1, 1992: UNC 80, Charleston Southern 41 (H - Carmichael)
Dec. 29, 2002: UNC 84, Charleston Southern 49 (H - Carmichael)

Scouting the Lady Bucs
Charleston Southern is 0-1 on the season following a 75-56 loss to College of Charleston on Friday in its season opener. Senior Lakeshia Bryant led CSU with 17 points and junior Erica McCoy added 12. College of Charleston led throughout the game while the Lady Bucs shot 38.5 percent.
Charleston Southern finished 11-17 last season, 7-7 in the Big South Conference. The Lady Bucs are coached by Stephanie Lawrence Yelton, who is in her third season with the program.

Yelton played at UNC from 1992-95 and was a member of the Tar Heels' 1994 NCAA Championship team. In fact, she threw the in-bounds pass to Charlotte Smith, who hit the game-winning three-pointer at the buzzer. Yelton ranks second in school history in three-point percentage and third in career three-pointers.

The last time they met
Dec. 29, 2002: UNC 84, 49
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Coretta Brown scored 12 of her 14 points in the first half and No. 13 North Carolina coasted to an 84-49 victory over Charleston Southern. Candace Sutton added 12 points and Nikita Bell had 10 for North Carolina (9-1).
Erin Jedlikowski led Charleston Southern (5-4) with 16 points and Lisa Crandall had 12.
North Carolina, which led 38-25 at halftime, forced 15 turnovers and limited the Buccaneers to 10-for-30 shooting in the second half.
The Tar Heels held Charleston Southern scoreless for a 7:35 span midway through the second half and stretched their lead to 69-35 with 9:30 to play.
Charleston Southern was 21-of-68 from the field (30.9 percent), while North Carolina was 33-of-71 (46.5 percent). The Tar Heels had a 55-37 rebound advantage.
La'Tangela Atkinson had 11 points and nine rebounds for the Tar Heels.
Charleston Southern was within 17-15 after Amanda Ekberg made two free throws with 12:35 left in the first half. Five Tar Heels scored in an 11-0 run over the next 4:15 as North Carolina pulled away.

UNC's last time out
Nov. 21, 2004: No. 9 UNC 71, No. 4 Connecticut 65
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina closed with a 16-5 run to upset Connecticut 71-65 Sunday in the Jimmy V Women's Classic, handing the three-time defending national champion Huskies their earliest loss since 1995.
Ivory Latta pulled up for a go-ahead 3-pointer with less than two minutes left for No. 9 North Carolina (2-0).
No. 4 UConn (1-1) was without freshman point guard Ketia Swanier for most of the second half - she left with a concussion after getting elbowed by a teammate - and finished with 28 turnovers.
Latta finished with 16 points, Erlana Larkins had 14 points and Camille Little added 13. Ann Strother led UConn with 17 points. UConn led 59-55 after a jumper by Nicole Wolff with about 4 minutes left, taking advantage of two quick turnovers by the Tar Heels. Latta, a speedy 5-foot-6 point guard, got inside for a basket, then La'Tangela Atkinson made two free throws to bring North Carolina within one.
After UConn center Jessica Moore traveled, Latta pushed the ball up and made a 3 over Wolff with 1:53 remaining, giving the Tar Heels the lead for good. The Huskies missed two straight shots and made another turnover, while North Carolina went 9-of-10 from the free-throw line to close it out.
The win was UNC's fifth in school history against a top 5 team and the first since 1994, when Carolina beat Connecticut, then ranked No. 4, in the NCAA East Region final.

ACC honors
North Carolina players swept the first weekly Atlantic Coast Conference honors of the women's basketball season as sophomore guard Ivory Latta was named ACC Player of the Week and freshman forward Erlana Larkins was named ACC Rookie of the Week.
Latta was the top scorer for the ninth-ranked Tar Heels (2-0) in both wins last week. Against No. 4 Connecticut Sunday in the Jimmy V Classic in Raleigh, she scored 13 of her 16 points in the second half as the Tar Heels fought back from a 10-point deficit. Her three-pointer with 1:53 to play and the Tar Heels trailing 60-59 put UNC ahead for good.
In the season opener against Elon on Friday, the McConnells, S.C., native was a perfect 6-for-6 from the field, including four three-pointers, to score 17 points in just 17 minutes of play as UNC won 86-40.
Larkins came off the bench to average 15 points and six rebounds per game in the first two outings of her collegiate career. Against Connecticut, she led the Tar Heels in rebounding with eight and ranked second in scoring with 14 points. With North Carolina trailing by seven points midway through the second half of the game, the Tar Heels went to Larkins on three consecutive possessions and she delivered with layups for six of her points to cut the Husky advantage to three. With 56 seconds to play, she hit her only two free throws of the game to widen UNC's lead from two points to four.
Against Elon, the Riviera Beach, Fla., native scored 16 points, grabbed four rebounds and blocked two shots in 17 minutes on the court.

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