Fifty-two point turnaround? Teasley is the difference for UNC
(02/28/00 5:00am)
CHAPEL HILL - It's probably safe to say the Blue Devils would much rather see Nikki Teasley in street clothes than in a basketball uniform.
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CHAPEL HILL - It's probably safe to say the Blue Devils would much rather see Nikki Teasley in street clothes than in a basketball uniform.
It isn't supposed to happen.
Who said sequels never live up to the original?
Sometime around 7 p.m. tonight in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the PA announcer will bellow out, perhaps for the final time, "At forward for Duke, a six-one senior from Peru, Indiana, Lauren Rice."
Twenty five years ago, the very first Blue Devil women's basketball team took the floor. In part one of a three part series, The Chronicle looks at the first 10 years.
WINSTON-SALEM - When the ACC's best defensive team runs into its worst offensive team, the results become about as predictable as a Harlem Globetrotters game.
With one mighty heave at the horn, Maryland forward Danny Miller emphatically pronounced to the world that for once, the Maryland Terrapins have finally walked out of Cameron not embarrassed, but ecstatic, not dejected, but euphoric.
With the women's basketball team halfway through the ACC schedule, The Chronicle looks back at the important moments of the first half of the season.
It took years of practice to turn Peppi Browne into one of the finest players in the ACC.
Call it a first round TKO for the Blue Devils.
CHAPEL HILL - Standing in the tunnel leading to the court at Carmichael Auditorium, North Carolina forward LaQuanda Barksdale reluctantly spat out the frustration one wouldn't normally expect to hear from the soft-spoken junior.
RALEIGH - For a full 10 minutes, Lauren Rice's eyes barely wavered from her fidgeting hands. Flanked by her coach and teammate Peppi Browne, the Peru, Ind., senior's downward gaze told only of the pain of falling on the wrong side of one of the ACC's wars.
So this is how a team responds to losing the most talented class in program history.
BLACKSBURG, Va. - In merely 96 hours, Georgia has conquered Virginia.
The coach may say it and the runners may believe it.
Last week, Pete Gaudet slowly strolled toward Cameron Indoor Stadium. On his way to the place he once knew as home, he was greeted warmly by good friends Johnny Dawkins and Steve Wojciechowski. But Gaudet couldn't talk for long-he had a game to coach.
In its upset victory against Penn State yesterday, Duke outshot the Nittany Lions from the floor, from the foul line and from behind the three-point line.
The women's cross country team traveled to Bloomington, Ind., yesterday to participate in its first-ever NCAA Championships. It returned to Durham in the wee hours of the morning boasting another monumental first.
CHAPEL HILL - Perhaps it was the initials C.T. carefully etched on punter Brian Schmitz's helmet before the game. Perhaps it was the inspired, almost superhuman effort of the Tar Heels. But one thing became painfully clear to Duke's players as Saturday afternoon wore on-North Carolina wasn't about to let Carl Torbush get unceremoniously shoved out the door.
CHAPEL HILL - When Duke quarterback Kevin Thompson's last-second heave into a crowd of players in the endzone hit the ground with a soft thud, Carl Torbush may have written himself an idyllic final chapter to his career at North Carolina.