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The Tar Heels celebrated an NCAA title in 1994.
Celebrate Carolina: UNC's Thrilling NCAA Championship Win
August 13, 2020 | Women's Basketball
Our Celebrate Carolina series, which has highlighted some of program's biggest moments, wraps up with the biggest celebration in UNC women's basketball history.
Every Tar Heel knows the story of Carolina's 1994 NCAA Championship win, but it's always fun to watch the phenomenal finish again. On April 3 in Richmond, Va., in UNC's first Final Four appearance, Louisiana Tech led through most of the first half, but never by more than five. The Tar Heels continued to keep it close, but trailed by two when they got the ball out of bounds on a possession arrow with less than a second – 00:00.7 – remaining in the game. After two timeouts, Stephanie Lawrence inbounded the ball to Charlotte Smith on the right wing. The rest, as they say, is history.
Smith's three-pointer, the only one she hit in the game, put the Tar Heels up 60-59 at the buzzer and created jubilant pandemonium on the court and the bench.
"It makes it even more special to know that we came from the bottom to the top," UNC's Sylvia Crawley said after the game. "This is the way I've always dreamed about it, and my dreams have finally come true."
Read more about the game here in the New York Times and here from GoHeels.com.
Every Tar Heel knows the story of Carolina's 1994 NCAA Championship win, but it's always fun to watch the phenomenal finish again. On April 3 in Richmond, Va., in UNC's first Final Four appearance, Louisiana Tech led through most of the first half, but never by more than five. The Tar Heels continued to keep it close, but trailed by two when they got the ball out of bounds on a possession arrow with less than a second – 00:00.7 – remaining in the game. After two timeouts, Stephanie Lawrence inbounded the ball to Charlotte Smith on the right wing. The rest, as they say, is history.
Celebrate Carolina! 🎉
Let's take a look back at the 1994 🏆
(Nice shot, @exdunker 😏🥳)#TBT | #InPursuit pic.twitter.com/nqvdBdzLVz
— Carolina Women's Basketball (@uncwbb) August 13, 2020
Smith's three-pointer, the only one she hit in the game, put the Tar Heels up 60-59 at the buzzer and created jubilant pandemonium on the court and the bench.
"It makes it even more special to know that we came from the bottom to the top," UNC's Sylvia Crawley said after the game. "This is the way I've always dreamed about it, and my dreams have finally come true."
Read more about the game here in the New York Times and here from GoHeels.com.
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