University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Hosts Notre Dame Sunday On ESPNU
January 21, 2017 | Women's Basketball
GAME INFORMATION
North Carolina (12-7, 1-5) vs. #6 Notre Dame (17-3, 5-1)
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Carmichael Arena
Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017
Tip: 12 p.m.
TICKETS
$10 Regular Price Tickets
$4 Group Ticket (10+)
$1 Youth Team Day (GoHeels.com promo code: WB17-TEAM)
PROMOTIONS (Kids Day)
• First 200 kids eat free
• Face painting until end of halftime
• Free T-shirts to the first 400 students
• Amazing Sladek Halftime Show
• Dads and Daughters Day
FREE T-SHIRTS
— UNC Women's Hoops (@uncwbb) January 20, 2017
400 Tar Heel State shirts will be up for grabs Sunday when we host Notre Dame at 12 pm. #GoHeels pic.twitter.com/6MIRXNF4k3
WHERE TO WATCH
Fans can watch the game on ESPNU, and on streaming platforms on ACC Network Extra or ESPN3, and the WatchESPN app.
TUNE IN
The game is available on 97.9 FM WCHL in the Triangle. A live stream is also available world wide on GoHeels.com.
SERIES HISTORY
Notre Dame leads 5-1 over the Tar Heels. The Fighting Irish has won all three meetings over UNC since joining the ACC.
LAST MEETING
No. 3 Notre Dame placed four players in double figures in a an 88-54 victory over North Carolina at Purcell Pavilion on Jan. 10, 2016. Notre Dame benefitted from a balanced scoring attack all game long. Arike Ogunbowale paced the Fighting Irish with 16 points off the bench.
Destinee Walker led North Carolina with 12 points in its first conference setback of the season. Jamie Cherry added 10 points, while Xylina McDaniel hauled in a season-high 12 rebounds to go with 10 points for her sixth career double-double.
LAST TIME OUT
Wake Forest scored the final five points of the game to escape with an 80-77 victory over North Carolina on Thursday night. North Carolina placed three players in double figures with Stephanie Watts scoring 25 points. Paris Kea had 21 points and Jamie Cherry had 12.
Elisa Penna had 23 points to lead Wake Forest. Milan Quinn had 18 points and 16 rebounds and Ariel Stephenson added 17 off the bench. Hillary Fuller gave Carolina a 77-75 lead with a layup off a nifty pass from Kea with under a minute to play. However, that wound up the final bucket for the Tar Heels as Alex Sharp made a triple with 15 seconds left to give the Demon Deacons an unlikely victory, its first in Chapel Hill since 1991.
FASTBREAK POINTS
• Sunday pits two head coaches that rank 2nd and 7th, respectively, in career victories among active coaches. Sylvia Hatchell owns 987 victories in 42 seasons, while Muffet McGraw has 836 wins spanning 35 seasons.
• Notre Dame is 3-0 against Carolina since joining the ACC back in the 2013-14 season.
• Stephanie Watts ranks 2nd in the ACC in scoring (18.8) and 5th in rebounding (8.8).
• Stephanie Watts and Paris Kea have scored 20 or more points in the same game twice this season versus Minnesota and last time out against Wake Forest.
• UNC recruit Janelle Bailey (Charlotte, N.C.) was selected for the 2017 McDonald's All-American Game. She averages 24.4 points and 12.6 rebounds for Providence Day School.
• North Carolina is 9-0 this season when limiting opponents to 60 points or less.
• Stephanie Watts has made 66 three-pointers thus far this season, leading the ACC with 3.5 made per game. The UNC record is 107 3-pointers set by Ivory Latta in the 2006-07 campaign.
• Jamie Cherry ranks tied for 21st in ACC history with a 80.8 career FT shooting percentage.
• UNC ranks 5th in the ACC in free throw shooting at 70.5 percent. Jaime Cherry (80.3) and Paris Kea (77.3) are the top charity stripe shooter for the Tar Heels.
• Seven Tar Heels - Jamie Cherry, Hillary Fuller, Paris Kea, Taylor Koenen, Emily Sullivan, Destinee Walker and Stephanie Watts - have scored in double figures this season.
• Watts (7x), Kea (5x) and Walker (3x) have reached 20 points in a game a total of 15 times this season.
• Stephanie Watts is second in the ACC and ranks 24th nationally with nine double-doubles. She has 16 in her two seasons with the Tar Heels.
• Carolina ranks 3rd in the ACC by averaging 7.8 3FG per game.
NEXT UP
North Carolina hits the road to take on No. 14 Miami on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 7 p.m.
