Ivory Latta

Position:
Guard
Height:
5-6
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
McConnells, S.C.

Working toward a major in exercise and sport science ... Ranks among the ACC's all-time leaders in career three-pointers (sixth), free throw percentage (fifth) and three-point percentage (15th) ... With another year to play, already ranks among UNC's career leaders in three-pointers (second), assists (seventh) and scoring (13th)

2005-06 Season Notes: Selected as National Player of the Year by ESPN.com, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), Gballmag.com and Basketball Times ... Runner-up for Associated Player of the Year honors ... Nancy Lieberman Award winner as point guard of the year ... Consensus All-America selection, UNC's first since Tracy Reid in 1998 ... Voted 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, the first UNC player so honored since 1998 ... Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament Cleveland Regional ... ACC Tournament MVP for the second year in a row as UNC won the second of back-to-back titles ... One of four finalists for the Honda Award ... WBCA National Player of the Month for February ... ACC Player of the Week, Jan. 30 and Feb. 26 ... Started all 35 games in 2005-06 and has played in all 100 since coming to UNC ... One of three team captains ... Led UNC in scoring with 18.4 points per game (second in the ACC) and in assists with 5.2 per game (fourth in the ACC) ... Led the ACC in free throw percentage (85.2) ... Had a streak of 60 consecutive games with a three-pointers snapped when she went 0-for-4 against Purdue, but still shot a career-best 40.1 percent from long range for the season ... Scored in double figures in all but the Charleston Southern game (seven points), in which she played a career-low 13 minutes in a lopsided win, and the game at Wake Forest (eight points) ... Led the team in minutes played with an average of 32.1 per game ... Scored a career-high 33 points in the Dec. 29 overtime win at Old Dominion, with eight of her points coming in the overtime period as UNC rallied for the victory after trailing through most of the game ... Played all 45 minutes of the ODU game ... Tied her career high with five three-pointers at Miami, hitting her first five field goals, four of them three-pointers, and scoring 14 points in the game's first eight minutes ... Played all 40 minutes with 17 points and six assists in the Jan. 29 win at Duke ... Led UNC with 18 points, 11 of them in the second half, in the Feb. 2 win over NC State ... Led UNC with 30 points - including a career-high six three-pointers - in the Feb. 5 win at Georgia Tech ... Averaged 24 points and shot 55 percent from the field in wins at Wake Forest and at Duke to earn ACC Player of the Week honors on Jan. 30 ... Scored 21 points, eight of them in the extra period, in the overtime loss to Maryland ... Played only 12 minutes in the first half of that game after picking up her third foul ... Hit two three-pointers in the final minute of overtime as the Tar Heels struggled for the lead - her second came with 27 seconds to play and drew UNC to within one, 96-95, but Maryland then hit two free throws for the final margin ... Led UNC with 26 points in the win at Virginia Tech ... Played 35 minutes in that game with just one turnover and five assists and also had her first block of the year ... Had a career-high nine steals and a team-best 23 points in the win over Boston College ... Led UNC with 18 points in the win over No. 1 Duke on Feb. 25 ... Earned her second ACC Player of the Week award of the season on Feb. 26 after averaging 20.5 points and six steals in wins over Boston College and Duke... Led UNC with 17 points and also had five assists and five rebounds in the ACC Tournament semifinal vs. NC State ... Scored 26 points and had team highs for steals (five) and assists (four) in the ACC championship win over Maryland, in which she played all 40 minutes ... Led UNC with 27 points in the 89-70 win at Vanderbilt that put the Tar Heels in the Sweet 16 ... Hit a running layup with 2.8 seconds to play to give UNC a 70-68 win over Purdue in the region semifinal game, which she finished with 19 points and eight assists ... Scored 20 points and tied her season high with nine assists in the region championship against Tennessee

2004-05 Season Notes: Voted ACC Tournament MVP after leading the Tar Heels to the title ... She averaged 25.7 points (including a career-high 32 in the semifinals) and shot .500 from the field in UNC's three games ... Her tournament performance earned her WBCA National Player of the Month honors for March ... Region finalist for Kodak All-America honors ... A first-team All-ACC pick with the third-highest number of votes overall ... Named to the All-America third team by the Associated Press ... As a third-team pick, is the first UNC player to earn A.P. All-America honors since Tracy Reid in 1998 ... Named to the Tempe Regional all-region team after averaging 20.5 points in the Tar Heels' two games ... Against Arizona State on March 26, scored her 1,000th career point and is just the second UNC sophomore (Marion Jones was the first) to reach that mark ... Named one of the top six passers in the game by ESPN.com ... Finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award ... Two-time ACC Player of the Week ... Led UNC in scoring with 17.4 points per game and in assists with 4.3 per game ... Led the ACC and ranked 17th nationally with a free throw percentage of .863, tied for the UNC single-season record ... Ranked second in the conference and 13th in the NCAA in three-pointers per game (2.7) ... Led the team in minutes played, averaging 34.3 per game ... Already ranks seventh on UNC's career three-pointers list with 153 ... Her total of 92 in 2004-05 ranks second on UNC's single-season list and third in ACC history... Named MVP of the Lady Rebel Shootout after scoring 28 against UNLV in the championship ... Played all 40 minutes against Penn State, a game in which she tied her career high with five three-pointers ... Also played 40 minutes at Maryland on Jan. 9 and equalled that in an overtime game at FSU on Jan. 20 ... Recorded her first career double-double against Georgia State with 17 points and a career-high 13 assists ... After never recording more than seven assists in a game, handed out double-digit assists in back-to-back games with 13 against Georgia State and 10 against Lipscomb ... Against Old Dominion, scored 16 points in the first eight minutes of the second half and finished with a team-high 24 in UNC's 79-55 win ... Was 10-for-10 from the foul line in the Jan. 14 win at NC State and had a streak of 18 in a row going before a miss against Miami ... Led UNC with 24 points (10-16 fg, 4-9 3fg) against Miami ... Fouled out of the game against Florida State, the first disqualification of her UNC career ... Played all 40 minutes of the win over top-ranked Duke on Jan. 24, scoring a team-high 13 points ... Played her fifth 40-minute game of the season at Virginia, leading the team with 22 points, 17 of which came in the second half ... Led the team with 19 points on 7-for-14 shooting (4-for-7 from three-point range) against Virginia Tech ... Scored 19 points and had six assists at Wake Forest ... Played all 45 minutes of the overtime win over NC State on Feb. 20 ... Against Virginia on Feb. 24, hit all four of her three-point attempts and was 7-for-9 from the field to finish with a team-high 19 points ... At Duke, led UNC with 23 points ... Led the team with 19 points (including three three-pointers and all four free throw attempts) in the ACC Tournament win over Miami ... Scored a career-high 32 points, 19 in the second half, as UNC came back from a 17-point, second-half deficit to beat Virginia in the ACC Tournament semifinals ... Scored a team-high 26 points in the ACC Tournament final against Duke ... Led UNC with 27 points and tied her season high with five three-pointers in the first-round NCAA win over Coppin State ... Preseason Wade Trophy candidate and midseason Naismith Award candidate

2003-04 Season Notes: Named to the All-ACC second team ... Received the sixth-highest number of votes overall, missing the first team by one spot ... A unanimous selection to the ACC All-Freshman team ... Selected for the All-ACC Tournament team after averaging a team-high 17.7 points in the Tar Heels' three games ... Voted the ACC Preseason Rookie of the Year ... Followed teammates La'Tangela Atkinson (2002-03) and Leah Metcalf (2001-02) in the third consecutive year a Tar Heel had been picked for the award ... Finished the season averaging 14.0 points per game, second on the team and sixth in the ACC ... Led the team in minutes played with an average of 32.6 per game ... Ranked second in the ACC in three-pointers per game (1.97), fifth in three-point percentage (.347), sixth in free throw percentage (.780), seventh in steals (1.94), eighth in assists (3.55) and ninth in assist/turnover ratio (1.15) ... Three-time ACC Rookie of the Week ... Earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors for the first time after leading UNC with 16 points in a win over Wofford on Dec. 13 ... In her first collegiate game in her home state, led UNC with 16 points against South Carolina on Dec. 20 in Myrtle Beach ... Scored a career-high 30 points in her first ACC game, Jan. 2 against Wake Forest ... She's just the second UNC freshman (Tonya Sampson was the first, in 1991) to hit the 30-point mark in a game ... Against Georgia Tech on Jan. 22, hit four of her five three-point attempts in the second half and finished 4-for-7 for the game ... Named ACC Rookie of the Week for the second time on Jan. 26 after averaging 14.0 points in the two games of the previous week ... Scored 22 points, 20 of them in the second half, in the Jan. 29 win at Virginia ... Playing in her home state, led UNC with 15 points at Clemson on Feb. 5 ... Third ACC Rookie honor came on Feb. 16 after she scored a team-high 25 points on 9-for-16 shooting in a loss to Duke two days earlier ... Scored 17 points in UNC's ACC Tournament quarterfinals win over Virginia ... Against NC State in the ACC Tournament semifinals, scored a team-high 27 points and hit a season-high five three-pointers in eight attempts ... With five threes against the Wolfpack, boosted her season total of three-pointers to 61, the seventh-highest single-season total in school history

At York (S.C.) Comprehensive High School: Coached by Arsonia Stroud ... Named the 2003 Morgan Wootten National Girls High School Basketball Player of the Year, an award given in conjunction with the McDonald's All-American Game ... Also a WBCA All-America selection and a Parade All-America second-team pick ... The all-time leading scorer in South Carolina history (boys and girls) with a total of 4,319 career points ... She shattered the girls' record, formerly held by Allison Feaster with 3,427, by almost 1,000 points ... Named the national Girls High School Player of the Week by USA Today after breaking the state record ... Other recognition included a resolution read on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by U.S. Representative John Spratt and a key to the city of York, S.C., which celebrated Ivory Latta Day on Jan. 10, 2003 ... As a senior, averaged 44.6 points (1,248 in 28 games), shooting 45 percent from the field and 42 percent from three-point range ... Late in her senior year, scored 70 points in one game, in which she was 23-for-33 overall and 14-for-19 from three-point range ... Scored 50 or more points eight times in her senior year and 40 or more points 21 times ... MVP for the White team in the WBCA High School All-America game with 17 points and six assists ... Started alongside future UNC teammate Camille Little at the McDonald's All-American Game and scored 12 points ... Two-time South Carolina Miss Basketball ... York won the state championship in 2002 and finished as the runner-up in 2003 ... Charlotte Observer South Carolina Player of the Year in her junior and senior years ... Named Female Athlete of the Year by the Observer in 2003 ... Gatorade Player of the Year for South Carolina ... Earned all-region honors in softball and cross country ... Voted Homecoming Queen