University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Back In Action Tuesday Against FAMU
November 16, 2015 | Women's Basketball
TAR HEEL TRENDS
• This is the first game between the two schools in women's basketball.
• Jamie Cherry scored a career-high 25 points in the season opener against Gardner-Webb. She leads the ACC in scoring at 24.0 ppg.
• Hillary Summers registered a career-high 14 points in the game against Oregon on Sunday. She ranks 18th in the ACC at 13.5 ppg.
• Freshmen guards Destinee Walker and Stephanie Watts are chipping in with 12.5 and 12.0 ppg, respectively, which rank T22nd and T24th in the league.
• Carolina hosts the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Women's Challenge this Friday through Sunday at Carmichael Arena. The Tar Heels welcome Fairleigh-Dickinson, Iona and Yale to Chapel Hill.
CHERRY LEADS ACC IN SCORING
Sophomore guard Jamie Cherry leads the ACC in scoring at 24.0 points per game. She registered a career-high 25 points in the season opener against Gardner-Webb and followed that up with 23 points against Oregon on Sunday. Both figures are the top two scoring performances thus far in the league.
Her previous career high was 15 points against Prairie View A&M last season as a freshman.
STAT SHEET STUFFER
Jamie Cherry not only leads the ACC in scoring at 24.0 ppg, but has also gone to the free throw line 15 times and made 14 of her attempts, both league highs among qualifying shooters.
Cherry ranks 7th in 3FG's made (3.0), 9th in assists (4.0) and 11th in FT percentage (93.3).
THE IRON FIVE
With a short bench to head coach Sylvia Hatchell's disposal to open the season, all five players in the starting lineup last weekend rank among the ACC leaders in minutes played per game.
Player (Minutes per game)
1. Destinee Walker (39.0)
2. Jamie Cherry (38.0)
4. Hillary Summers (36.5)
T5. Stephanie Watts (36.0)
T10. N'Dea Bryant (32.5)
WELL THEY ARE “FREE" THROWS
North Carolina ranks second in the ACC by converting 75.8 percent of its free throws through the first weekend of the season. Only Boston College is better from the charity stripe thus far at 76.2 percent.
JOHNSON GOES “BEAST MODE” ON THE BOARDS
Erika Johnson, a native of Seattle, Wash., has channeled her inner Marshawn Lynch thus far on the offensive glass, grabbing an ACC leading 5.0 offensive rebounds per game.
The only bench player receiving minutes for the Tar Heels, Johnson is 10th in the league with 7.5 rebounds per game.
SUMMERS SETTING CAREER HIGHS
After playing limited minutes in her first two years with Carolina, redshirt junior Hillary Summers has averaged 13.5 points and shooting 65.0 percent from the floor in two games this season. Those figures rank 18th and 6th, respectively, in the ACC.
WALKER AND WATTS START STRONG
Freshman guards Destinee Walker and Stephanie Watts started both games last weekend, and responded by averaging 12.5 and 12.0 points, respectively, with both players scoring in double figures in both games.
Walker was also a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line, while Watts is averaging 3.0 steals per game.
