Thursday, January 5
Coral Gables, Fla.
6 PM
North Carolina
at
Miami
Anya Poole and the Tar Heels take on Miami Thursday.
WBB Looks For ACC Road Win Thursday At Miami
January 5, 2023 | Women's Basketball
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The No. 22 North Carolina women's basketball team plays for an Atlantic Coast Conference road win on Thursday, taking on Miami at the Hurricanes' Watso Center.
Tipoff is 6 p.m. and the game will air on ACCNX. Click here to watch and here to listen.
The Tar Heels are 9-4 overall and 0-2 in ACC play heading into the matchup. Miami is 8-6 (1-2 ACC).
Heels vs. Hurricanes
The Tar Heels and Hurricanes are meeting for the 28th time in a series that dates back to the 1980-81 season. Carolina leads the series 15-12, but the Hurricanes have eight of the past 12 meetings.
• UNC won last season's game, 85-38 on Feb. 6 in Chapel Hill. The 47-point margin of victory was Carolina's largest in ACC play since the 2006-07 season. Deja Kelly scored a team-high 18 points, including four three-pointers in a row late in the second quarter. Kennedy Todd-Williams contributed 16 points, then equal to her career high.
UNC was 20-21 from the foul line and won the rebounding battle 53-34.
• Miami won the last match-up in Coral Gables, on Dec. 14, 2020. The Hurricanes led throughout the 67-63 win. The game was scheduled at the last minute after both teams had games postponed due to Covid protocols.
Alyssa Ustby came off the bench for a then-career-high 17 points and Deja Kelly scored 16, including nine in the final 1:14 as the Tar Heels cut the margin to two points but couldn't pull out the win.
• UNC trails 6-5 all-time in matchups played at Miami. The Tar Heels' last win in Coral Gables was in the 2014-15 season, 66-65 on Feb. 22, 2015. UNC took the lead on a pair of free throws by Jamie Cherry with 1.7 seconds to play.
Coming up
Next up is a home game for Carolina as the Tar Heels host No. 4 Notre Dame on Sunday at 4 p.m.. It will be UNC's fourth game of the season against a top-10 team and the third against a top-5 opponent. UNC is 1-1 against top-5 teams and 1-2 against teams ranked in the top 10.
Noting the Tar Heels
• Four Tar Heels are scoring between 16.2 and 12.5 points per game and all rank in the ACC's top 21 in scoring: Deja Kelly is fifth (16.25 ppg), Alyssa Ustby is ninth (14.0), Kennedy Todd-Williams is 12th (13.8 ppg) and Eva Hodgson is 21st (12.46 ppg).
• On Wednesday, Deja Kelly was announced as one of 25 players on the Midseason Watch List for the Wooden Award.
• Kelly comes into Thursday's game 13 points from reaching 1,000 for her career. When she hits that milestone, she'll become the 39th player to score 1,000 points at UNC. She'll be the second on the current squad to reach that mark, joining senior Eva Hodgson, who scored the first 914 points of her career at William & Mary. The matchup with Miami will be Kelly's 69th game as a Tar Heel – she has scored 987 points in 68 games, a career scoring average of 14.5 points per game. This year she's averaging a team-best 16.3.
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• In a nod to Carolina's versatility, four different players have scored 20 or more points on 11 occasions in the season's first 13 games. (Kennedy Todd-Williams with 20 vs. Jackson State, at Indiana, and vs. Wofford, Destiny Adams with 23 vs South Carolina State, Deja Kelly with 24 vs James Madison, 29 vs Iowa State, 20 vs USC Upstate and FSU, and 21 at Virginia Tech; and Eva Hodgson with 21 vs. Oregon and 20 vs Wofford.) A fifth Tar Heel, Alyssa Ustby, has reached 19 on two occasions.
• No conference school has more players with multiple 20-point games than UNC. Carolina and Virginia Tech each have three players with two or more 20-point outings, the most in the league.
• Five Tar Heels have led the team in scoring or tied for the lead in at least one game this season.
• Carolina has four players ranked among the ACC's top 21 in scoring average (Kelly 5th, Ustby 9th, Todd-Williams 11th, Hodgson 21st).
• Alyssa Ustby ranks in the ACC's top 10 in scoring (9th), rebounding (4) and field goal percentage (4th). In ACC games only, she's the conference leader in field goal percentage, hitting 70 percent of her shots in UNC's two conference games.
• Eva Hodgson has hit at least one three in every game this season and is the only UNC player to have done so. She ranks fifth in the ACC in threes made (2.5 per game).
• UNC's 10 blocks against Iowa State were the most for a Tar Heel team since the 2017-18 season. Redshirt freshman Teonni Key had three in just 14 minutes of play. Carolina is averaging 4.77 per game, sixth in the ACC and 32nd nationally.
• Destiny Adams is 10th ACC in blocks with 1.2 per game in an average of 17.5 minutes per game on the court.
• Two Tar Heels rank among the ACC's top seven in assist-turnover ratio. Eva Hodgson is third (2.4) and Deja Kelly is seventh (2.2). UNC's team assist-turnover ratio of 1.18 is second in the ACC and 34th in the nation.
• Alyssa Ustby has hit double figures in rebounds seven times this season, including five of the past six games.The exception was Sunday's loss at Virginia Tech, in which she had five rebounds in 24 minutes of playing time.
Tipoff is 6 p.m. and the game will air on ACCNX. Click here to watch and here to listen.
The Tar Heels are 9-4 overall and 0-2 in ACC play heading into the matchup. Miami is 8-6 (1-2 ACC).
Heels vs. Hurricanes
The Tar Heels and Hurricanes are meeting for the 28th time in a series that dates back to the 1980-81 season. Carolina leads the series 15-12, but the Hurricanes have eight of the past 12 meetings.
• UNC won last season's game, 85-38 on Feb. 6 in Chapel Hill. The 47-point margin of victory was Carolina's largest in ACC play since the 2006-07 season. Deja Kelly scored a team-high 18 points, including four three-pointers in a row late in the second quarter. Kennedy Todd-Williams contributed 16 points, then equal to her career high.
UNC was 20-21 from the foul line and won the rebounding battle 53-34.
• Miami won the last match-up in Coral Gables, on Dec. 14, 2020. The Hurricanes led throughout the 67-63 win. The game was scheduled at the last minute after both teams had games postponed due to Covid protocols.
Alyssa Ustby came off the bench for a then-career-high 17 points and Deja Kelly scored 16, including nine in the final 1:14 as the Tar Heels cut the margin to two points but couldn't pull out the win.
• UNC trails 6-5 all-time in matchups played at Miami. The Tar Heels' last win in Coral Gables was in the 2014-15 season, 66-65 on Feb. 22, 2015. UNC took the lead on a pair of free throws by Jamie Cherry with 1.7 seconds to play.
Coming up
Next up is a home game for Carolina as the Tar Heels host No. 4 Notre Dame on Sunday at 4 p.m.. It will be UNC's fourth game of the season against a top-10 team and the third against a top-5 opponent. UNC is 1-1 against top-5 teams and 1-2 against teams ranked in the top 10.
Noting the Tar Heels
• Four Tar Heels are scoring between 16.2 and 12.5 points per game and all rank in the ACC's top 21 in scoring: Deja Kelly is fifth (16.25 ppg), Alyssa Ustby is ninth (14.0), Kennedy Todd-Williams is 12th (13.8 ppg) and Eva Hodgson is 21st (12.46 ppg).
• On Wednesday, Deja Kelly was announced as one of 25 players on the Midseason Watch List for the Wooden Award.
• Kelly comes into Thursday's game 13 points from reaching 1,000 for her career. When she hits that milestone, she'll become the 39th player to score 1,000 points at UNC. She'll be the second on the current squad to reach that mark, joining senior Eva Hodgson, who scored the first 914 points of her career at William & Mary. The matchup with Miami will be Kelly's 69th game as a Tar Heel – she has scored 987 points in 68 games, a career scoring average of 14.5 points per game. This year she's averaging a team-best 16.3.
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• In a nod to Carolina's versatility, four different players have scored 20 or more points on 11 occasions in the season's first 13 games. (Kennedy Todd-Williams with 20 vs. Jackson State, at Indiana, and vs. Wofford, Destiny Adams with 23 vs South Carolina State, Deja Kelly with 24 vs James Madison, 29 vs Iowa State, 20 vs USC Upstate and FSU, and 21 at Virginia Tech; and Eva Hodgson with 21 vs. Oregon and 20 vs Wofford.) A fifth Tar Heel, Alyssa Ustby, has reached 19 on two occasions.
• No conference school has more players with multiple 20-point games than UNC. Carolina and Virginia Tech each have three players with two or more 20-point outings, the most in the league.
• Five Tar Heels have led the team in scoring or tied for the lead in at least one game this season.
• Carolina has four players ranked among the ACC's top 21 in scoring average (Kelly 5th, Ustby 9th, Todd-Williams 11th, Hodgson 21st).
• Alyssa Ustby ranks in the ACC's top 10 in scoring (9th), rebounding (4) and field goal percentage (4th). In ACC games only, she's the conference leader in field goal percentage, hitting 70 percent of her shots in UNC's two conference games.
• Eva Hodgson has hit at least one three in every game this season and is the only UNC player to have done so. She ranks fifth in the ACC in threes made (2.5 per game).
• UNC's 10 blocks against Iowa State were the most for a Tar Heel team since the 2017-18 season. Redshirt freshman Teonni Key had three in just 14 minutes of play. Carolina is averaging 4.77 per game, sixth in the ACC and 32nd nationally.
• Destiny Adams is 10th ACC in blocks with 1.2 per game in an average of 17.5 minutes per game on the court.
• Two Tar Heels rank among the ACC's top seven in assist-turnover ratio. Eva Hodgson is third (2.4) and Deja Kelly is seventh (2.2). UNC's team assist-turnover ratio of 1.18 is second in the ACC and 34th in the nation.
• Alyssa Ustby has hit double figures in rebounds seven times this season, including five of the past six games.The exception was Sunday's loss at Virginia Tech, in which she had five rebounds in 24 minutes of playing time.
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