CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — With four minutes remaining in regulation, North Carolina guard Cetera DeGraffenreid’s eyes showed confidence, focus and assuredness of how the last four minutes would be played.But no one could have foreseen the double-overtime match between UNC and Virginia on Monday.
Read More »After a recent loss against Florida State, coach Sylvia Hatchell jokingly invited all in attendance to her team’s 6 a.m rebounding practices.There was no joking Thursday night after a 69-62 loss to Boston College.
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It took only one play. One play with less than a minute to go and four seconds remaining on the shot clock.The play summed up North Carolina’s season, the utmost maxim in UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell’s basketball repertoire, and everything that could have been this year if the Tar Heels consistently followed her words.
Read More »Italee Lucas never needed more than one word to measure her success.“My dad always told me to be undeniable,” the junior guard said. “It means don’t let anyone question your work ethic, whether you’re a leader.”Lucas has continued to fight for that recognition this season alongside junior guard Cetera DeGraffenreid.
Read More »Before Thursday’s game against Miami, coach Sylvia Hatchell emphasized to her players the importance of a win.After an 80-69 loss, North Carolina (16-5) will have to wait for another chance. UNC dropped its second consecutive game against a conference opponent.After trailing for most of the game, UNC rallied from a 13-point deficit to tie the game 61-61 with 7:05 remaining.
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Coach Sylvia Hatchell began to list off a series of outstanding records held by her team. Fifty-one wins out of the last 52 games played in Chapel Hill. Nineteen straight conference wins at home. She had one pointed reason. She wanted to remind her players those records were no more after an 83-73 loss to No. 15 Florida State (19-4, 5-2 ACC).
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RALEIGH — North Carolina entered Reynolds Coliseum on its most successful stretch ever against N.C. State. A staggering 17 of the past 19 contests had gone in the Tar Heels’ favor, yet with 12 minutes remaining in the second half, none of that seemed to matter.
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RALEIGH — Chay Shegog was little more than a bystander in Monday’s game against N.C. State.After picking up her fourth foul shortly after halftime with UNC down seven, she sat with a towel draped over her shoulders — even taking part in a “Tar … Heels” chant after a timeout.It seemed that North Carolina would be forced to go the rest of the way without any interior presence.
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It took the North Carolina women’s basketball team seven minutes to turn a barnburner into a blowout Friday night.Down by a point with 7:08 left in the second half, North Carolina rattled off a 23-4 run to defeat Clemson 79-61.
Read More »The official stats show Clemson’s Keyrra Gillespie had eight assists Friday night against North Carolina.To UNC’s Italee Lucas, she had nine.
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Ten days ago against Connecticut, North Carolina point guard Cetera DeGraffenreid managed four points on 14 percent shooting.Five days later against Virginia Tech, she tallied five points — though her field goal percentage dwindled to nine percent. And in Sunday’s first half against Maryland, her totals diminished even more.
Read More »With her team coming off two consecutive road losses, North Carolina women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell decided it was time for some changes.She tried shuffles in the lineup and what her team jokingly called 24 hours of practice. “When you lose, you have to keep changing things until you find something that works,” Hatchell said.
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BLACKSBURG, VA – After the first half, the North Carolina’s women’s basketball team could have counted itself lucky to only be losing by four to Virginia Tech.In the second half, the Tar Heels had no such luck. UNC found itself on the short end of a 20-6 run to start the second half and never recovered, eventually losing 79-64.
Read More »Watching from the bench during No. 1 Connecticut’s decisive 23-0 first-half run against her team, North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell started begging her players to make the same plays they had been executing all season. She wasn’t exhorting them to start making a few baskets to slow down the Huskies’ momentum and cut into a rapidly increasing UConn lead.
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With an 88-47 rout of North Carolina, UConn elevated its winning legacy to the forefront of women’s college basketball. But UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell wanted the game to remain elsewhere. Deep in the recesses of the team’s memory.
Read More »North Carolina guard Italee Lucas had only a few words to describe her 23-point first-half performance against Georgia Tech Wednesday.
Read More »Radford (1-6) recovered from a five minute drought by sinking five straight shots from behind the arc to take a 17-16 lead halfway through the first period.
Read More »The plays have become almost predictable. In a game like any other, on a Tuesday night like any other, Cetera DeGraffenreid and Italee Lucas faced Radford and did as usual: Quite frankly, they took over. It’s easy to look at the statistic sheet and see certain scoring runs. It’s easy to look at the lack of scoring from various other players on both teams.
Read More »Late Saturday night, while North Carolina’s Cetera DeGraffenreid talked with Centhya Hart — a former teammate now playing at St. John’s — Hart told DeGraffenreid the Red Storm were going to press her.On Sunday, DeGraffenreid picked that press apart like a Jenga tower.
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Even with Italee Lucas scoring North Carolina’s first eight points, the UNC coaching staff wanted more.In fact, after Lucas passed up a wide-open three-point opportunity before the game’s first timeout, head coach Sylvia Hatchell and assistant Andrew Calder let Lucas know their feelings.
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