She Satty (Bar MM Atkinson keys UNC victory BY JACOB KARABELL SENIOR WRITER With the game comfortably in hand for North Carolina, the only question was whether La’Tangela Atkinson would score the basket she needed to eclipse the 1,000- point mark for her career. “You’ve got to score! ” Alex Miller yelled at her on the court. But the admittedly unselfish and defensive-minded Atkinson didn’t decode the message, and Coach Sylvia Hatchell finally pulled the senior from the game stuck on 998. Atkinson’s late-game scoring drought is one of the few things that’s gone wrong for the No. 7 Tar Heels lately. UNC easily topped Wofford 87-50 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Wofford 50 UNC 87 Thursday, the team’s final game before final exams. Atkinson scored her final point with 10:35 to play. Hatchell left her in the game until the final media timeout, but she failed to net a field goal during that span. “I left her in there for a while,” Hatchell said. “She wasn’t going to score, so I was going to get her out.” Atkinson scored a game-high 15 coming off her 18-point effort at Connecticut on Monday. But she also added a season-high in assists with six on a night when the scor ing spotlight was on her. “Offense is never on my mind,” Atkinson said. “I’m always wor rying about having intensity on the ball, staying the passing lane. Just defense is on my mind all the time.” Aside from Atkinson’s 1,000- point saga, the rest of the game transpired similarly to most of the Tar Heels’ games this year an easy victory with balanced scor ing. UNC (9-0) never trailed in the game despite missing freshman Rashanda McCants because of a stomach flu. 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