University of North Carolina Athletics
No. 14 Tar Heels Host Western Carolina Sunday
November 21, 2010 | Women's Basketball
Nov. 21, 2010
CHAPEL HILL --- North Carolina continues its season-opening four game homestand Sunday when the Tar Heels welcome in-state foe Western Carolina at 3 p.m. at Carmichael Arena. Carolina is 3-0 on the season after a 93-37 win over Coastal Carolina on Friday. Western Carolina is 1-2 on the year following a 78-59 win over UNC Asheville on Wednesday. UNC is ranked No. 14 in the latest AP poll and No. 16 in the coaches' poll. Western Carolina is unranked.
AT A GLANCE
Records: North Carolina 3-0, Western Carolina 1-2
Rankings: North Carolina is ranked No. 14 in the AP poll and No. 16 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll. Western Carolina is unranked.
TV: None.
Radio: Tar Heel Sports Network, a division of Learfield Communications. Dave Nathan (play-by-play) and Jan Boxill (analyst) have the call.
On The Web: TarHeelBlue.com (UNC), CatamountSports.com (Western Carolina)
WESTERN CAROLINA SERIES HISTORY
• North Carolina is 9-1 all-time against Western Carolina.
• The two teams last met during the 2008-09 season, an 90-56 Carolina win in Chapel Hill in the first round of the Preseason WNIT. The Tar Heels would go on to win the event with an 80-79 victory over No. 2 Oklahoma.
• Western's lone win in the series came in 1975, the only season during which the two teams have met twice. The Catamounts triumphed 92-72 in the only game in the series to be played in Cullowhee.
NOTING THE CATAMOUNTS
• Western Carolina is 1-2 on the season following a 78-59 win over UNC Asheville on Wednesday.
• Junior guard Kaila'Shea Menendez leads four Catamounts in double-figure scoring with 14.7 points per game.
• Junior forward Caitlin Hollifield is WCU's top rebounder with 8.3 boards per outing.
TAR HEELS IN CARMICHAEL ARENA
• Carolina is 384-86 all-time in Carmichael, with a 11-3 record since the building re-opened after being closed for renovations from March 2008 to December 2009.
• The Tar Heels have won at least 14 home games in each of the last nine seasons, including a school-record 18 during an undefeated 2007-08 home campaign.
• With an all-time home winning percentage of .816 (427-96, including a 43-10 record in the Dean E. Smith Center), Chapel Hill ranks as the ninth most difficult location for visiting teams all-time in Division I women's basketball.
