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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
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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.
The Terriers (4-2), though,
stayed relatively close by hitting
five of nine 3-pointers in the first
Mason dismissed, junior wrestler suspended
BY DANIEL MALLOY
SPORTS EDITOR
North Carolina wide receiver
Mike Mason was dismissed from
the football team Thursday for a
violation of team rules, according
to a UNC press release.
No further information could be
released, a team official said, cit
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UNO 87, Wofford 50
Wofford 25 25 50
North Carolina 45 42 87
Watford (50)
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Mww 26 2-10 00 2-4 2 1 4
Strong 20 2-3 00 02 2 3 6
Vfcuntog 22 05 00 2-5 t 4 6
Const 25 4-0 00 1-3 3 0 11
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Nichols 16 26 00 00 1 2 4
Depko 16 03 00 Ol 1 0 0
Dempsey 16 14 00 1-1 2 3 2
Total 200 2068 02 1024 16 18 SO
Percentages - FG .345, FT 000 3-point goals - 10
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Koenig 1-21 Team rebounds - 2 Blocked shots - 1
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Yee. Oempeey).
North Carotins (87)
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Larkins 23 44 00 48 2 1 8
Atkinson 6-9 34 04 6 1 15
Sell 19 37 1-1 03 0 1 9
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Neltns 12 1-2 00 Ol 3 12
Dewitt 7 1-2 00 01 1 0 2
Pringle 18 OO 66 24 1 2 6
Miltef 21 46 2-2 Ol 3 0 13
Cteylor 13 37 00 04 0 0 9
McFarland 7 1-1 00 04 0 0 2
Austin 2 00 00 01 0 0 0
Wood 2 OO 00 00 0 0 0
Total 200 3166 16-19 338 24 7 87
Percentages -FG 564, FT 789 3point goals - 10-26
385 (Clavtor 37. Sea 26. Latte 16. MJlet 34. Utile 1-3)
Teem rebound! 5 Blocked shotc - 8 (Atkinson 3.
Sell 2. Larkins, lithe. Pringle). Turnovers 21 (Larkins
5. Milter 5. Atkinson 2. Latta 2 Naims 2. Piingte 2.
McFarland 2. Dewitt). Steals 13 (Latta 3, Pringle 3.
Larkins 2. Claytor 2. Little, Dewitt. Mdler).
Technical fouls None Attendance 1.013
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half, expanding the lead to 28
before the first media timeout.
And Latta finished with only
11 points, third best on the team.
Aside from Atkinson, Miller bested
her backcourt counterpart by scor
ing a career-high 13.
The balanced scoring proved
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of Wofford. Atkinson scored a game-high 15 to improve UNC to 9-0.
too much for the Terriers, who are
coached by Edgar Farmer Jr. —a
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2002-03 squad
Must stay focused during exam break
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON
SENIOR WRITER
Three seasons ago, a youthful
North Carolina men’s basketball
team brimmed with confidence as
it recessed for December exams.
With a win against a top-10
opponent as a morale boost and a
loss to Illinois in the ACC/Big Ten
Challenge as a reality check, the
Tar Heels appeared ready to oblit
erate the low expectations placed
before them.
Sound familiar?
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January, however, North Carolina
would lose twice to unranked
opponents en route to missing the
NCAA Tournament for the second
straight season.
To add injury to insult, freshman
center Sean May broke his foot in a
December loss to lona and missed
all but one of the Tar Heels’ remain
ing games.
If this season’s UNC team is to
maintain the momentum of its first
six games, it will have to avoid the
pitfalls that plagued the freshman
laden squad three years ago.
“We just have to stay positive,
stay poised and stay focused, and
when we have our break, make sure
nobody goes home and gets out of
shape eating all that Christmas
food,” said forward David Noel, one
of only two players remaining from
the 2002-03 team.
The Tar Heels also will have to
stay healthy.
Point guard Bobby Frasor has
exceeded expectations in the
absence of the injured Quentin
Thomas so much so, in fact, that
it’s unlikely Thomas will start upon
his return.
But UNC doesn’t have the
depth up front to weather an inju
ry to Noel or, worse, rookie Tyler
Hansbrough. The pair has com
bined to score 30.8 {joints and grab
15.0 rebounds per game thus far.
Even if the Tar Heels do stay
healthy, Wednesday’s surprisingly
tough win against Saint Louis
should quell fans’ suddenly strato
spheric expectations.
“We’ve got to continue to get bet
ter every day,” said Frasor, who had
12 assists and five steals against the
Billikens. “We’ve learned from this
to come out with energy in every
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game, and thank God we didn’t
have to lose to get the lesson.”
But energy isn’t the only incon
sistency North Carolina has faced
this season. Four days after hold
ing Kentucky’s talented perimeter
shooters to 33 percent from behind
the arc, the Tar Heels allowed Saint
Louis to hit 56 percent of its 3-
point attempts. What seemed to
be North Carolina’s only sure-fire
defensive strength suddenly looked
like a weakness.
“Defense, that’s everything to
this team,” said guard Wes Miller.
“That’s our spark. That’s what gets
us going.”
But the Tar Heels struggled
defensively Wednesday against a
Saint Louis team that won only
nine games a season ago.
Fortunately for Coach Roy
Williams’ team, plenty of time still
remains for adjustments before the
ACC schedule begins.
“Every game, we’re finding
something else out about our team,
things we need to work on,” said
guard Marcus Ginyard. “It needs
to come to a point where we learn
from every game and we put it all
together into one game.”
If North Carolina can get to that
point during the upcoming break
from classes, the ACC might be in
for a surprise or two once the con
ference schedule begins.
And with nine games against
ranked teams looming after the
start of the new year, the schedule
might be a little tougher than those
finals.
Contact the Sports Editor
at sports@unc.edu.
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