Feb. 2, 2001

"Carolina NewsStand" is a daily listing with links to stories from around the country on the Tar Heels. Look for the link each day in the left-hand corner of TarHeelBlue.com's main page.

Friday, February 2, 2001

MBB: Haywood Sheds 'Soft' Label Just in Time
The Sporting News/By Mike DeCourcy
DURHAM, N.C. - As the first free throw settled softly in the net, breaking the tie that seemed certain to turn this North Carolina-Duke game into another overtime classic, senior center Brendan Haywood did not think about what a Heels hero he'd just become. He thought about missing the second shot, on purpose...

MBB: Heels Walking Tall
Raleigh News & Observer/By A.J. Carr
The clock was ticking, their hearts were pounding, and their hopes were for another last- minute miracle. They looked for Jason Williams. They looked for Shane Battier. But unlike at Maryland just five nights ago, Duke's second-ranked Blue Devils couldn't produce a second straight fairy-tale finish. Not this Thursday night, not against No. 4 North Carolina, which faced its archrival without trepidation and left Cameron Indoor Stadium with a pulsating 85-83 victory...

MBB: Haywood A Hero At The Foul Line
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
DURHAM -- What hasn't Brendan Haywood gone through? Subjected to ridicule in almost every opposing arena, he sometimes looks awkward, unsure. But not Thursday night. Not when it mattered, in the swelter of Cameron Indoor Stadium, with the Dukies lining the stands, badly wanting him -- needing him -- to miss...

MBB: Now It's Two For the Show
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
It's official now. The ACC regular-season basketball championship race will go the distance this season. And in North Carolina and Duke, the league has a couple of teams capable of running all the way to April...

MBB: Heels Now Second to None
Durham Herald-Sun/By Bryan Strickland
On the eve of the Duke-North Carolina showdown, Duke senior Shane Battier observed that he hadn't spent even one day of his career out of first place in the ACC...

MBB: Heels Play Like They're In First Place
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
You can rewind, fast-forward and slow-motion all you want to in Thursday night's heart-pumping Duke-North Carolina basketball game but you'll come to two simple conclusions why the Tar Heels won 85-83: Joseph Forte's clutch plays throughout -- 24 points, 16 rebounds (most ever by a UNC guard), 6 assists, 3 steals, 10-of-18 field goals, 2-of-3 3-pointers -- and the Blue Devils' horrendous free throw shooting -- 13-of-27...

MBB: For Duke, Game Was On The Line
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
Accurate free-throw shooting, a Duke staple for years under Coach Mike Krzyzewski, was absent from the Blue Devils' arsenal on Thursday night in an 85-83 loss to North Carolina at Cameron Indoor Stadium...

MBB: Tar Heels Trip Devils
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
DURHAM -- On the sideline, North Carolina coach Matt Doherty said a little prayer for his 7-foot center. On the foul line, that center was thinking about Christmas day, waking up in Greensboro and skipping the presents to go to a gym and shoot free throws...

MBB: Duke-Carolina mesmerizes Even an Unbiased Ball
Charlotte Observer/By C. Jemal Horton
DURHAM -- Hi, my name is Wilson, and this is what I live for. This, Thursday night, is why I feel I was conceived...

MBB: A Game Destined For OT Ends With a Twist
Greensboro News & Record/By Ed Hardin
DURHAM -- A classic game that looked like it might go on forever, ended abruptly Thursday night when Brendan Haywood ended it...

MBB: A Bad Night For battier Drops Duke Into Second
Greensboro News & Record/By Larry Keech
DURHAM -- Through four years and 55 games, Duke's Shane Battier had not experienced anything but first place in the ACC standings...

MBB: Carolina Slips Past Duke
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
The weakest part of Brendan Haywood's game proved a monumental strength for North Carolina for the second time in five days last night when he made two pressure-packed free throws to produce an 85-83 win over Duke in shocked Cameron Indoor Stadium...

MBB: It's Timing: UNC Supporters Pick Right Time to 'Stomp' Duke
Winston-Salem Journal/By Lenox Rawlings
DURHAM -- The dark blue hair and the dark blue chests and the dark blue lips all melted into a dark blue funk late last night...

MBB: UNC's Win Showdown With Duke
Fayetteville Observer/By Hermann Wendorff
DURHAM -- The hand said it all...

MBB: Devils Can't Corral Lightning Bolt This Time
Fayetteville Observer/By Brett Friedlander
DURHAM -- Sorry, Duke. Only one miracle per customer this season...

MBB: UNC Kicks Up Its Heels
N.Y. Daily News/By Dick Weiss
Duke's dominance of neighborhood rival North Carolina had to end some time. But no one thought it would end this way...

WBB: Hatchell Wins 300th Game at UNC
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
ATLANTA -- Coretta Brown and Juana Brown sparked the North Carolina women over Georgia Tech 85-63 to give Coach Sylvia Hatchell her 300th career victory in 15 seasons at UNC...

Thursday, February 1, 2001

MBB: Two Flavors of Basketball With A Capital B
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
Jason Williams leaned against a basket support Wednesday afternoon at Cameron Indoor Stadium, inquiries raining down. What does your Duke team, ranked second in the nation, have to do to beat No. 4 North Carolina? What are the keys?...

MBB: UNC vs. Duke Preview
Raleigh News & Observer/By Wayne McPeters
The North Carolina Tar Heels (17-2 overall, 7-0 ACC ) take the eight mile drive up 15-501 to Cameron Indoor Stadium to battle The Duke Blue Devils (19-1 overall, 7-0 ACC ) on Thursday night. Game time is 9 p.m. EST on Raycom/JP Sports and ESPN2...

MBB: Teams Try To Deal With Waves of Anticipation
Durham Herald-Sun/By Bryan Strickland
DURHAM -- Duke senior Shane Battier always talks a good game...

MBB: Doherty Knows There Will Be No Smooth Sailing Tonight
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
CHAPEL HILL -- You've seen this type of kid. Really, you have. If you've spent any time at all near the world of pickup basketball -- a world with its own lingo, its own rules, its own hierarchy -- you know exactly the kind of kid Matt Doherty was...

MBB: Duke's Success Rests In Its Own Hands
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
DURHAM -- The Duke basketball players call it a fist. Four fingers and a thumb...

MBB: Ground Zero For Rivalry Trash Talking
Durham Herald-Sun/Staff Report
The days leading up to this rivalry's renewal mean extra sleep and extra focus for the players. This week also means a trip to the barber shop -- in most cases, the same barber shop...

MBB: Dunleavy Had a Devil of a Decision
Greensboro News & Record/By Larry Keech
DURHAM -- As difficult as Mike Dunleavy's decision was, it could hardly be described as "agonizing" because both choices were so appealing...

MBB: Keys To The Game
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
Foul trouble: Duke never wants to see Carlos Boozer saddled with fouls, but that would be especially troublesome against North Carolina with 7-foot Brendan Haywood, 6-10 Kris Lang and powerful Julius Peppers. If North Carolina has similar difficulty, it may have to protect people by going to a zone. And Jason Williams and Shane Battier know what that means: room for the 3-pointer. Williams is flirting with 50 percent accuracy from beyond the arc...

MBB: Ultimate Growth Chart
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
CHAPEL HILL -- A book already is in the works for Matt Doherty's first season as basketball coach at North Carolina. In time there could be more, enough books to fill a shelf in a library, or even the library itself, and still Doherty's days in Chapel Hill could be summed up with this two-word mandate...

MBB: Tar Heels, Blue Devils Set For Key ACC Clash
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
Shane Battier said yesterday that the game Duke will play today is more meaningful for him than most other games...

MBB: James Set to Put 'D' On Forte
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
Nate James is ready for one of the biggest assignments of his career...

MBB: Tar Heels Tall Order For Duke
Fayetteville Observer/By Hermann Wendorff
The jerseys hanging in the rafters of the Smith Center tell many stories. This particular story can be told by Nos. 00, 41 and 42...

MBB: Heels, Devils To Duke It Out
N.Y. Daily News/By Dick Weiss
When Duke sophomore guard Jason Williams was a junior at St. Joseph's High in Metuchen, N.J., he was being pursued by both North Carolina and the Blue Devils...

MBB: Ten Terrific Tobacco Road Tussles
ESPN.com/By Rico Longoria
ESPN Classic looks back at 10 thrilling Duke-North Carolina games from the past...

Wednesday, January 31, 2001

MBB: His Next Shot at Duke Will Come From Bench
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
Old Carmichael Auditorium was quiet for a bit that Saturday afternoon in 1984. The clock showed seven seconds remaining. North Carolina, the top-ranked team in the country, trailed Duke, the hated team from just down the road, by two...

MBB: Five To Remember
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
The Duke-Carolina series has had some memorable moments. But here are five that stand out...

MBB: Off-target Heels Puzzled
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga and A.J. Carr
The shots don't always clang in practice. Really, they don't. At North Carolina, players are required to make nine out of 10 free throws before leaving practice...

MBB: Rival Game Provides Opportunity
Chapel Hill News/By Eddy Landreth
CHAPEL HILL -- Matt Doherty has been waiting on this moment since he became North Carolina's head coach in July...

MBB: James Prepares for One-on-One with Forte
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
Nate James doesn't dream of hitting the winning shot...

MBB: Doherty Won't 'Poke' Fun This Time
Durham Herald-Sun/By Bryan Strickland
When asked Tuesday about playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium, North Carolina coach Matt Doherty praised Duke's domicile as a great environment for college basketball...

MBB: Dangerous? Doherty Knows the Meaning of the Word
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
CHAPEL HILL -- Matt Doherty knows where he's going Thursday night. Into Cameron Indoor Stadium, in front of the Cameron Crazies, to shake Mike Krzyzewski's hand and to hear numerous chants of "Go to hell, Carolina, go to hell."...

MBB: Lang to Crazies: Abuse Me
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
Basking in the relative warmth of a 57-degree afternoon in Krzyzewskiville on Tuesday, Duke students continued their preparations for Thursday night's basketball holy war with North Carolina. The chief target of their insults and retorts these days is Kris Lang...

MBB: Dunleavy Just Warming Up Exciting Act for Blue Devils
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
DURHAM -- The illusion is the thing with Michael Dunleavy Jr. It has always been the thing. So tall, so skinny, so friendly looking with that smile and that baby face. He's good enough to play for Duke, so he must be a shooter, you think. This guy has to be a shooter, right?...

MBB: Curry Will Face a Double Whammy at Duke
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
These are not the greatest of times for Ronald Curry, and they could get worse on Thursday....

BB: Nixon, Brennaman, Godwin Among Hot Stove Honorees
Durham Herald-Sun/By Mike Potter
RALEIGH -- Trot Nixon said he was particularly proud to be honored at a jam-packed banquet of the Raleigh Hot Stove League on Tuesday night, because he knew a lot of people besides just himself had worked hard to get him to the major leagues...

NBA: All-Star Selection An Honor To Stack
Detroit Free Press/By Helene St. James
NEW YORK -- Jerry Stackhouse's selection as an Eastern Conference All-Star reserve provided a burst of sunshine for the Pistons, whose recent play reflected the cold rain that fell in Manhattan, where they practiced Tuesday...

Tuesday, January 30, 2001

MBB: Alumni Battle: UNC vs. Duke
CNNSI.com/By Jacob Luft
If Duke and North Carolina were to stage an alumni game of active NBA players, the Blue Devils would find themselves severely outgunned....

MBB: Heels Will Need Theft Protection
Raleigh News & Observer/By A.J. Carr
Teams facing Duke know they'd better sharpen their ball-handling skills...

MBB: Five To Remember
Raleigh News & Observer/By A.J. Carr
The Duke-UNC basketball rivalry has raged since the 1920 season, with Carolina winning 121 times and Duke 85. Here are five of the most significant games...

MBB: Buzz About UNC-Duke Breaks Out
Durham Herald-Sun/By Bryan Strickland
When Duke sophomore Mike Dunleavy went to the grocery store Sunday, Dunleavy got more than he bargained for...

MBB: Doherty's Heels Showing Composure
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
It seemed rather appropriate for the North Carolina basketball coach to mention the word composure when discussing how his Tar Heels were able to win their 14th consecutive game, a 60-52 verdict at N.C. State...

MBB: Hype Swirls For Main Event
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
At 9 p.m. Thursday, the Triad's CBS affiliate will air a program about a group of young people battling arduous conditions with a big prize at stake. But first, it will show "Survivor."...

MBB: UNC Will Resume Rivalry With Lead On Line
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
This season's first shot in the Duke-North Carolina rivalry was taken just after Christmas, a good six weeks before they were to play...

Monday, January 29, 2001

MBB: Tar Heels Survive Pack Run
Raleigh News & Observer/By Chip Alexander
RALEIGH -- It wasn't exactly a Super Sunday classic. It wasn't the kind of game North Carolina fans taped, saved and will pop into the ol' VCR time and again...

MBB: Balance Not Heels' Forte
Raleigh News & Observer/By Barry Svrluga
RALEIGH -- N.C. State had closed North Carolina's lead down to four points in the second half Sunday afternoon. The sellout crowd at the Entertainment and Sports Arena -- almost every last member dressed in Wolfpack red -- sensed the Pack might be back...

MBB: Wolfpack In Over Its Head
Raleigh News & Observer/By Caulton Tudor
RALEIGH -- There was a period of time Saturday when N.C. State's Anthony Grundy thought about sitting out Sunday's basketball game against North Carolina...

MBB: Super Struggle: UNC Holds On To Top Pack
Durham Herald-Sun/By Neil Amato
RALEIGH -- Like Super Bowl pregame programming, Sunday's North Carolina-N.C. State meeting was the sideshow to this week's big game...

MBB: Haywood's Big Shots Taken Standing Still
Durham Herald-Sun/By Frank Dascenzo
RALEIGH -- On Christmas Day at 10 a.m. at Greensboro Day School, the free throws Brendan Haywood were shooting were going in. Well, most of them...

MBB: Tar Heels Get Ugly Victory
Greensboro News & Record/By Rob Daniels
RALEIGH -- Purists might say it was a shame somebody had to win...

MBB: Haywood Center of Storm
Charlotte Observer/By Gregg Doyel
RALEIGH -- Maybe N.C. State freshman Scooter Sherrill's shot was on the money. Think about that. What if it goes in, the score is tied, and North Carolina finds itself under an ocean of sound at the Entertainment and Sports Arena? What then?...

MBB: Haywood Helps Heels Turn Aside Wolfpack
Winston-Salem Journal/By Bill Cole
RALEIGH -- Same script, same result. Except that this time, there was a different leading man for North Carolina...

MBB: Ugly Bowl: Nothing Super About Pack, Heels
Winston-Salem Journal/By Lenox Rawlings
RALEIGH -- The ACC staged its Super Bowl a day early...

MBB: Carolina Finds Ways To Win
Fayetteville Observer/By Brett Friedlander
RALEIGH -- Coaches are fond of telling us that their teams are never as good or as bad as they look in a particular game or series of games...

MBB: North Carolina Beats Wolfpack at Its Own Game
Fayetteville Observer/By Hermann Wendorff
RALEIGH -- It was a fairly typical Sunday afternoon for North Carolina and N.C. State...