University of North Carolina Athletics
Focus Shifts To Louisville In ACC Quarters
March 6, 2015 | Women's Basketball
Carolina is 3-1 all-time against the Cardinals, however, Louisville came out on top, 75-66, in the only meeting this season on Feb. 15 in Louisville, Kentucky.
GAME INFORMATION
Venue: Greensboro Coliseum
Date: Friday, March 6
Tip Time: 8 p.m.
Broadcast: RSN/ESPN3/WatchESPN
GAME COVERAGE - Regional Sports Network
Fox Sports Carolinas
Fox Sports South
Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic Plus
NESN Plus
Fox Sports Indiana (Delay broadcast)
Fox Sports North Plus
Fox Sports Midwest (Delay broadcast)
Fox Sports West
Fox Sports Southwest Plus
Fox Sports Detroit Plus
Sun Sports
Fox Sports Florida
SportsTime Ohio
Root Sports Pittsburgh (Delay broadcast)
Root Sports Rocky Mtn.
MSG Plus
ESPN3 (Subject to Blackout)
Sirius 218/XM193
NATIONAL RANKINGS
North Carolina is ranked No. 15 by the Associated Press and 12th in the coaches poll this week. The Tar Heels are also 14th in latest NCAA RPI that was released on Tuesday. Louisville is 10th in both major polls and 8th in the NCAA RPI.
GRAY, MAVUNGA NAMED FIRST TEAM ALL-ACC
North Carolina sophomores Allisha Gray and Stephanie Mavunga earned first team All-ACC honors on Tuesday. UNC and Notre Dame are the only two schools to have two players selected to the 10-player first team.
UNC IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT
• UNC has the best winning percentage (.682, 60-28) and the most wins (60) in ACC Tournament history.
• Carolina has won nine ACC titles - 1984, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 - the second-most in league history. Maryland has 10.
• The Tar Heels have appeared in the final in 15 of the last 21 years, with 1996, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014 being the only years UNC wasn't in the final.
• UNC has appeared in nine of the last 13 finals.
• Of the previous 37 ACC Tournaments, 28 have seen Carolina advance to at least the semifinals.
• The Tar Heels enter the 2015 event as the No. 6 seed. Carolina is 6-3 in four tournaments (1988, 2011, 2014, 2015) as the sixth seed.
• UNC last appeared as the No. 6 seed in 2014 and would become just the third team in tournament history seeded 6th or higher to make the championship
game.
TAR HEEL TRENDS...
• Stephanie Mavunga made a run at the program's first “triple double” with 23 points, 16 rebounds and 8 blocks against the Yellow Jackets.
• Allisha Gray is three points shy of becoming the 35th player at UNC to score 1,000 career points, the first to do it as a sophomore since Ivory Latta.
• Carolina is 6-2 in its last eight games, losing only on the road to ranked teams Louisville and Duke.
• North Carolina is averaging only 15.3 turnovers per game, the fewest number since the 1995-96 team coughed up the ball only 12.9 times a game.
• Opponents are shooting only 28.4% from beyond the three-point arc, the best figure in the ACC.
• Allisha Gray has eight 20-point performances this season, the fifth most in the ACC this season. She has 13 in her two-year career with the Tar Heels.
• Allisha Gray has scored in double figures 56 times in 67 career games.
• Stephanie Mavunga's 24 career double-doubles is the fourth most among active players in the ACC and the most among players in her sophomore class.
• UNC is 5-1 this season in games decided by less than four points.
• Allisha Gray went to the free throw line 19 times against Boston College (Feb. 1) - two shy of the school record of 21 set by Tonya Sampson vs. UVa (2/3/93)
• Stephanie Mavunga's 92.9% (13-14) showing against ETSU on Jan. 2 is the best field goal percentage of the year in the ACC.
• Carolina has overcome a double-digit deficit nine times over the last two seasons, five times this year vs. Oregon, Rutgers, NC State, Florida State and Virginia.
• Allisha Gray is 3 points shy of reaching 1,000 career points.
• Brittany Rountree led UNC in scoring at Virginia Tech on Feb. 8, the first time leading her team in scoring since Jan. 3, 2013 vs. Maryland.
• Sophomore Hillary Summers set career highs with nine points and seven rebounds in the 71-63 victory over No. 7 Florida State. She had never scored more than six points in 58 previous games with the Tar Heels.
• Allisha Gray has averaged 18.5 points per game against 11 ranked opponents.
NEXT UP
A victory on Friday would pit UNC against either No. 2 seed Florida State or 15th-seed Virginia Tech on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
