University of North Carolina Athletics
NCAA Championship Sunday Game Notes
December 8, 2008 | Women's Soccer
Dec. 8, 2008
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•The Tar Heels won their 19th NCAA title and 20th national championship overall, including the 1981 AIAW title, the women's sports governing body that held championships before the NCAA began sponsorship in 1981.
•North Carolina is now 19-3 in NCAA championship games.
•With 25 goals this season, Casey Nogueira's 2008 campaign marked only the ninth time in school history a player has finished with 25 or more goals and the first time since Meredith Florance had 26 in 2000.
•Carolina won its 100th NCAA Tournament game in the 27-year history of the tournament, improving to 100-7-1. Notre Dame has the second most NCAA Tournament wins in history with 48.
•In 108 NCAA Tournament matches, UNC has outscored its opponents 378-59.
•Carolina is 82-4-1 in NCAA Tournament games played in North Carolina.
•Carolina's NCAA Tournament winning percentage is now .931.
•Carolina is 16-1-1 in matches at WakeMed Soccer Park.
•UNC is 6-0 in NCAA Tournament matches at WakeMed Soccer Park.
•Carolina improved to 10-4-2 in the series against Notre Dame.
•The win kept alive a streak for Carolina in which it has never lost to a collegiate opponent twice in the same season.
•Carolina's win also assured that it remains the only school to have an undefeated and untied season in NCAA history since 1982. The Tar Heels have had four of those.
•The win ended a two-match losing streak against the Fighting Irish.
•UNC improved to 6-2 in NCAA Tournament games against Notre Dame and 5-0 against the Fighting Irish in NCAA Tournament championship games.
•Carolina is 3-3 in the state of North Carolina against Notre Dame and 2-0 in Cary, N.C.
•Yael Averbuch ended her college career with her 105th successive start. She never missed a game in her career and fell only two games short of the school record for games played.
•The Tar Heels finished 25-1-2 and became the ninth UNC team to win 25 or more games. UNC has had six 25-win seasons and three 27-win campaigns.
•Carolina allowed only two goals over the last 953 minutes and 15 seconds of the season.
•The starting defensive back line of Kristi Eveland, Rachel Givan and Whitney Engen played the last 1,121 minutes of the season without subbing out even once.
•Carolina's all-time record is now 673-33-21, winning percentage just over .940.
•UNC has outscored its opponents 2,951 to 347 in 727 games in its history.
•Carolina's all-time scoring margin is 2,604 goals.
•The Tar Heels finished unbeaten in their final 22 matches of the season, going 21-0-1 since playing to a 1-1 tie at Stanford on September 12.
•Casey Nogueira is now in a tie for 22nd place in career points with 103.
•Casey Nogueira has 42 goals, tied for 17th place with Wendy Gebauer Palladino.
•UNC won the championship by beating two unbeaten teams in three days, both ranked higher than UNC's No. 4 standard. UCLA was No. 2 and finished 22-1-2 and Notre Dame was No. 1 and finished 26-1-0.
