University of North Carolina Athletics
No. 10 Tar Heels Start Final Stretch At Boston College
February 18, 2009 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 18, 2009
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. --- North Carolina (22-4, 7-3 ACC) heads into the tail end of its regular season schedule when the Tar Heels travel to Chestnut Hill, Mass., to face Boston College Thursday night at 7 at the Silvio O. Conte Forum. UNC is coming off a 73-50 win over Georgia Tech on Sunday. Boston College is coming off a 71-64 win at Miami on Monday. Carolina is ranked No. 10 in the AP poll and No. 9 in the coaches' poll. Boston College is unranked.
AT A GLANCE
Records: North Carolina 22-4 (7-3 ACC), Boston College 18-7 (6-4 ACC)
Rankings: North Carolina is ranked No. 10 in the AP poll and No. 7 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll. Boston College is unranked.
TV: ACC Select. Tonight's game is available live and on-demand at ACCSelect.com.
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network, a division of Learfield Communications. Brad Heller (play-by-play) and Jan Boxill (analyst) have the call.
On The Web: TarHeelBlue.com (UNC), BCEagles.com (Boston College)
BOSTON COLLEGE SERIES NOTES
• North Carolina is 3-0 all-time against Boston College, including a 1-0 mark in Chestnut Hill.
• UNC scored a 69-62 win in Chapel Hill in 2006, an 82-60 victory in Chestnut Hill in 2007 and an 87-59 triumph in Chapel Hill in 2008.
• Prior to BC joining the ACC in 2005-06, the two teams had never met in women's basketball.
NOTING THE EAGLES
• Boston College is 18-7 on the season (6-4 in the ACC) following a 71-64 win at Miami on Monday.
• Junior guard Mickel Picco leads the Eagles in scoring with 16.4 points per contest.
• Sophomore forward Carolyn Swords leads BC in rebounding with 9.0 boards per outing and is second on the team in scoring with 15.2 points per game. Swords also leads the nation in field goal percentage at .686, more than 45 percentage points better than second place.
• Boston College is led by first year head coach Sylvia Crawley, a 1994 graduate of North Carolina. Crawley was a member of UNC's 1994 NCAA title-winning team and served as an assistant coach in Chapel Hill from 2000-02.
• BC assistant coach Stephanie Lawrence Yelton is a 1996 graduate of UNC and was a teammate of Crawley's at Carolina. One of the best outside shooters in program history, she still ranks in the top 10 in career three-pointers made and career three-point percentage.
STREAKS
• Carolina has won five of six since dropping three straight from Jan. 19-25.
• The Tar Heels have lost three straight conference road games for the first time since February 2001.
• Boston College has lost three of four since winning nine of 10 after Christmas.
