University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC Meets Defending NCAA champion Virginia Saturday.
April 6, 2007 | Men's Lacrosse
April 6, 2007
TAR HEELS SEEK SECOND STRAIGHT TOP FIVE WIN: North Carolina will conclude a string of four successive games against teams ranked in the nation's Top 10 when the No. 11 Tar Heel men's lacrosse team plays at No. 2-ranked Virginia Saturday at 7 p.m. The game will be played at Klockner Stadium. The game will be webcast live on ACC Select and live stats will be available via CSTV Gametracker. Defending national champion Virginia is on a nine-game winning streak and is 9-1 overall and 1-0 in the ACC heading into Saturday. The Tar Heels are 7-3 overall and 0-2 in the ACC heading into the game. Virginia is on a three-game homestand with wins over Maryland 12-8 last Saturday and 10-7 against Binghamton last Tuesday. The Tar Heels are coming off a 13-10 home victory over Johns Hopkins last Saturday which improved UNC's home record this year to 6-1. The Tar Heels are 0-2 on the road so far this season and 1-0 at neutral sites. After beating 2005 NCAA champion Johns Hopkins 13-10 last Saturday when the Blue Jays were ranked No. 5 in the nation, the Tar Heels will be looking for a second straight win over a Top 10 opponent. The last time UNC beat Top 10 opponents in back-to-back games was 2004, the last time the Tar Heels appeared in the NCAA Tournament. After playing at Virginia Saturday, the Tar Heels will close the regular season with a game at Fairfield on April 15 and the home finale against Providence on April 21. The Tar Heels will play in the ACC Tournament at Durham, N.C. on April 27 and 29.
THE TAR HEELS VERSUS THE CAVALIERS: Carolina is 20-41 all-time in games against Virginia. That includes a mark of 10-20 in games played at Charlottesville, 8-19 in games played in Chapel Hill and 2-2 in games played at neutral sites. The Cavaliers have won three games in a row against the Tar Heels including a 21-13 win over UNC last season in Chapel Hill. The Cavaliers defeated the Tar Heels 15-9 in Charlottesville in 2005 in the last meeting between the two teams there. Carolina has beaten the Cavaliers twice in this decade, winning 11-9 in Chapel Hill in 2004 and 7-5 in Charlottesville in 2001. The Tar Heels are 2-13 in their last 15 games against Virginia and 1-6 in their last seven games against the Cavaliers in Charlottesville.
HAUS NAMED NATIONAL COACH OF THE WEEK: John Haus was selected this past Monday as the U.S. Lacrosse Coach of the Week for the week ending April 1. He will be recognized on CSTV's lacrosse broadcast this weekend. Haus and North Carolina jumped back into the thick of the NCAA Tournament picture with a 13-10 victory over Johns Hopkins last week. It was Carolina's first victory over the Blue Jays since 1994, ending a string of 13 straight defeats. UNC rose to No. 10 in the USILA and No. 11 in the Inside Lacrosse poll this week and plays at No. 3/No. 2 Virginia Saturday.
