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UNC LOSES TO BAYLOR ON THE DOORSTEP OF FINAL FOUR
BY JACOB KARABELL
SENIOR WRITER
TEMPE, Ariz. North
Carolina’s pressure defense carried
the Tar Heels to a 16-game winning
streak entering the NCAA regional,
final, as they continually frustrated
opponents throughout the season
by converting that pressure into
fast-break opportunities.
Second-seeded Baylor, however,
forced UNC into primarily a half
court offense, and the top-seeded
Tar Heels failed to capitalize.
North Carolina shot just 32 per
cent from the floor, including a 6-
for-22 effort by point guard Ivory
Latta, falling to the Lady Bears
72-6.3 on Monday night at Wells
Fargo Arena, ending UNC’s season
while Baylor will advance to the
Final Four in Indianapolis.
Ivory Latta, who had averaged
shooting almost 57 percent from
the field in the NCAA Tournament’s
first three games, was tightly guard
ed by Baylor’s Chelsea Whitaker on
Monday. And even though Latta
scored a game-high 21 points, she
was unable to connect on two criti
cal 3-pointers in the middle of the
second half as UNC (30-4) looked
to fight back into the game.
“I just wasn’t hitting my shots,
and that was that,” Latta said.
The rest of North Carolina’s
players failed to fare much bet
ter, as not one Tar Heel shot bet
ter than 50 percent. Yet UNC had
cut the Baylor (31-4) lead to 11
with a 7-0 run with seven minutes
remaining and then had three
separate opportunities to bring
the lead to single digits.
The team did not convert on
any of them.
First, Camille Little misfired
on a midrange jump shot, with
Baylor securing the rebound. After
the Lady Bears threw the ball into
the backcourt, Little had a chance
to redeem herself. But the sopho
more shot an open 3-pointer long
SEE BASKETBALL, PAGE 4
Alumna to take spot
as UNC s new trustee
BY LINDSAY MICHEL
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
After making a mark as a stu
dent, staff member, alumna and
financial donor, Barbara Hyde
will leave her Tar Heel footprints
in UNC’s history as its newest
trustee.
Hyde, who graduated as a
Morehead Scholar in 1983,
was recently
approved by
the UNC-sys
tem Board
of Governors
and will begin
her four-year
term as a
member of the
UNC-Chapel
Hill Board of
Trustees on
July 1.
“It’s a huge
honor to have
been nomi-
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Alumna
Barbara Hyde
will join UNC's
governing
board in July.
nated, and I think this is an
important time in the University’s
history with the Carolina First
(fund-raising) campaign head
ing toward successful conclusion,”
Hyde said.
“It’s a time when I think we
have a chance to make real the
things we’ve been talking about.”
Hyde will take office at a time
when emotional issues such as
faculty retention and tuition
increases dominate local media
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North Carolina point guard Ivory Latta expresses her disappointment as UNC fails to Baylor 72-63 in
Monday's regional final in Tempe, Ariz., ending the Tar Heels' season one game short of the Final Four.
and trustees’ agendas. She will
replace Philip G. Carson of
Asheville, who did not seek reap
pointment after the completion
of his first four-year term.
Hyde, the former director of
the Arts and Sciences Foundation,
serves on the executive commit
tee of the Women’s Leadership
Council of the Carolina First cam
paign. Two women now serve on
the board, which is made up of 12
voting members and the UNC
CH student body president, who
serves as an ex officio member.
“I think there are many, many
creative ways that the University
can approach faculty' retention,”
Hyde said, adding that she still
needs to brush up on campus issues
before her July appointment.
Richard “Stick” Williams,
chairman of the Board of'lYustees,
said Hyde generated the interest
of University administrators and
trustees early in the process of
searching for anew trustee.
“She brings this knack of reach
ing out to other constituents and
getting them engaged,” Williams
said.
Although the board often looks
for a specific area of expertise in
a potential trustee, such as health
care or law, Hyde’s involvement
with the University was enough
to secure her appointment,
SEE HYDE, PAGE 4
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McCants’ defense plugs up the holes
BY DANIEL BLANK
SENIOR WRITER
Heading into this year, Rashad
McCants was labeled a one-dimen
sional player.
He was - supposed to be an
unstoppable force on offense but
a liability on defense.
In four NCAA Tournament
games, McCants has proven the
first part, scoring 17.8 points per
game.
Thanks to
his offensive
production
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larly a 15-
point second
half against
Villanova on
Friday and
a 21-point performance Sunday
against Wisconsin the junior
swingman was named to the
Syracuse Region’s all-tournament
team.
But McCants’ biggest contri
bution of the whole tournament
came on the defensive end.
With little more than two min
utes remaining and the Tar Heels
clinging to a three-point lead
against scrappy Wisconsin, the
Badgers’ Clayton Hanson got what
seemed to be a good look from the
right wing.
Hanson had been tearing the
Tar Heel defense to shreds all day,
finding holes in the 2-3 zone and
making five of his first seven field
goals all 3-pointers.
But this time, as Hanson rose
gg
for the potential game-tying shot,
McCants swooped in and swatted
the shot away.
“It was the biggest play of the
game definitely changed the
game right there,” said senior for
ward Jawad Williams. “That guy
had been killing us all game with
open 3s, and Rashad made a great
effort to get over there and block
the shot.”
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Rashad McCants responds to the applause of the crowd that came to the Smith Center on Sunday night to
greet the men's basketball team upon its return from Syracuse, N.Y., after it won a trip to the Final Four.
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Small classes
might land on
cutting board
Budget cuts to
imperil courses
BY ERIN ZUREICK
STAFF WRITER
As the clock winds down on
Abigail Coward’s time at UNC,
course scheduling hasn’t got any
easier for the junior.
Coward, an international stud
ies major, said that even though
she is an upperclassman, she still
hits roadblocks such as wait lists,
large class sizes and a lack of new'
courses when making her sched
ule.
“You might get into a couple
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to come today
Congress has yet to solidify position
BY KATHERINE EVANS
STAFF WRITER
Congress is set to decide the
fate of student body vice president
nominee Adrian Johnston tonight
—but many of the body’s members
have yet to figure out where they
stand.
Members of Student Congress
voted last
week to post
pone a deci
sion regarding
Johnston after
the appoint
ment failed to
garner the two-
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thirds majority needed to pass.
One week after 2 1/2 hours of
deliberation questioning the
nominee selection process along
with Johnston’s character, qualifica
tions and friendship with Student
Body President-elect Seth Dearmin
Congress still appears to be far
from a resolution.
Johnston was chosen from a
Earlier in the game, McCants
found himself in a similar posi
tion in Coach Roy Williams’
doghouse.
Williams lifted Raymond Felton
with 3:12 left in the first half to
prevent the point guard from
picking up his third foul, and in
that span, McCants took a few
bad shots. Wisconsin scored the
last 11 points of the half to force
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classes you want, but the other
classes are full,” she said. “This
year, I am taking summer school
classes just so I can take the classes
I w'ant.”.
With the University potentially
facing a 4 percent budget cut from
the state, students like Coward
might find even more scheduling
headaches on the way.
In the wake of proposed bud
get reductions, University officials
have formulated a contingency
plan that includes cutting 200
class sections, in case UNC finds
its budget slashed.
The proposed 4 percent reduc-
SEE COURSES, PAGE 4
pool of four applicants, which also
included former student body pres
idential candidate Seke Ballard,
Vote Carolina Chairman Jeremy
Spivey and Mark Laabs, slated to
be Dearmin’s
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chief of staff
Rep. Kris
Gould, who
made the
motion to
reconvene today
for the final
decision, said
most members
of Congress did
not have enough
information at
the last meeting
to make a solid
Congress plans
to end talks on
VP nominee
Adrian
Johnston.
decision.
“There was possible information
there, but not firm information,” he
said.
Many representatives said their
SEE NOMINATIONS, PAGE 4
a tie at 44.
“He is so much more mature
than even he was last year, much
less what everybody tells me he
was before,” Williams said. “But
what you saw was a mature bas
ketball player who took again what
I said, and I told him, That’s over
with, but you have to start play-
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