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The game is not until Sunday, but thought we should start building some positive vibes for the game now ...

Tennessee has seemingly peaked in the tournament and the Heels have been gritty but not great ... but gritty wins. This is the last shot at the title for Latta and Little ...

GO HEELS!!!!!!!!!!

Don, any thoughts on putting together some rhythms? This will be the toughest game they have had all year IMHO. The Vols are playing well. If Ivory puts it together we could win very easily. This is the championship game. I think we easily beat either of the other two teams, as does Tennessee.
I am something of a Lady Vol fan as one of my best friends was a cheerleader there so I would be happy for her if we lose.
TAR!!!!!!!!11

Great idea...can someone help me put together the birthdays for the team? I'll do the vols as well if they provide that info.

Way ahead of you:
Ivory Latta 9/25/84
Camille Little 1/18/85
Erlana Larkins 1/2/86
Alex Miller 11/5/85
LaToya Pringle 9/11/86
Heather Claytor 3/13/87
Rashanda McCants 11/17/86
Jessica Breland 2/23/88

I can't get the media guide section on coaches to load up right to get coaches birthdays, though!

my adobe software must be screwed up; here is the link to the TN women's media guide if anyone can open it to look up b-days for db:

http://utladyvols.cstv.com/sports/w-bask...06aaa.html

By the way...check out http://www.unc.edu/

cool.

Shaon BObbit n 12/6/85
Sidney Spencer 3/7/85
Cait McMahan 12/7/87
Candace Parker 4/19/86
Liz Curry 3/4/85
Dominique Redding 2/10/85
Alexis Hornbuckle 10/16/85
Alberta Auguste 6/2/85
Nicci Moats 10/27/87
Alex Fuller 7/7/86
Nicky Anosike 2/27/86

Pat Summit 6/14/52 (for whom I have a WORLD of respect) THey did not give the birthdays of her assistant coaches.

As an aside, in a pre-emptive worry that db might not be around to calculate the biorhthms, I found a calculator and figured out that Atti didn't melt down last night b/c I let him watch Spiderman versus the Moleman (1967) with the sound muted and The Ramones' cover of the Spiderman theme song on a repeting loop, nope, it was because his biorhythms were totally tanked:

http://www.perbang.dk/orcapia.cms?aid=29...stom=1&js=

Tennessee is a tough matchup, but they all are at this stage. GO HEELS!

ROCK AND *freakin'* ROLL!!!

Everyone it seems is picking against us ... I think this team seems very focused and ready ...

I'd love to see biorhythms for this matchup too ...

I'll have them all soon. Our'n look good.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/ncaatourne...d=tab4pos1

nycfan - see who picked us (other tha Michelle Voepel, who is one of the few unbiased writers in WCB I've read) ...

UNC V UT :utenn:


UNC:
Latta...P=45, E=5, I=95, M=70
Little...P=45, E=30, I=5, M=25
Larkins...P=95, E=80, I=80, M=90
McCants...P=55, E=0, I=60, M=55
Pringle...P=85, E=85, I=55, M=70
Miller...P=10, E=95, I=10, M=10
Claytor...P=70, E=25, I=25, M=45
Breland...P=90, E=95, I=75, M=80

UT:
Parker...M=10
Spencer...M=80
Anosike...M=45
Bobbit...M=40
Hornbuckle...M=25
Fuller...M=80
Auguste...M=15
Redding...M=45
McMahan...M=40

Coach Summit...Wisdom=30

Backcourt and Wings: Latta appears extremely smart though emotionally uncharged. Could be a good thing as it could facilitate focus on her part. Little is down as is Miller, though the latter is so only physically and intellectually...her spirit is skyhigh. To be sure there are some troubleing signs here but Latta's very good arcs overall and her super fine intellect number lead toward a conclusion that the sum total of guard play will be positive for the Heels.

Frontcourt: It appears that Erlana Larkins is poised to dominate (and he dissed the Vols the first time around at that). McCants looks ready to help out (and experience says that low emotion arcs is good for this family). Pringle also is primed and sharp.

Overall: The Tar Heel Women look to have the better biorhythms here. Vols star Candace Parker is trolling to boot as is outstanding guard Hornbuckle. Good signs for the Heels. Beware of Spencer in the blocks.

This looks like a Tar Heel victory, albeit a hard fought one. Expect Carolina to be pulling away as the final horn sounds.

Thanks Padre!

Quote:Chapel Hill Game Viewing: UNC vs. Tennessee
Sunday, April 1
Carmichael Auditorium - doors open 8 p.m.
Free Admission. Free parking available at the Cobb Deck, Hwy. 54 lot, Boshamer and Bell Tower lots. Regular rates ($1.25/hr) will be assessed for Rams Head Deck parking. Disability parking will be available at South Rd. meters and School of Government parking deck.

Join other Tar Heel fans in Chapel Hill at the home arena of the women's basketball team and catch all the action on the big screen. Concessions will be available for purchase. The first 100 fans get a Camille Little growth chart.

Posted events are updated frequently. Details for additional fan events will be posted as appropriate.

On behalf of the General Alumni Association, The Rams Club, the Department of Athletics and the women’s basketball program, we appreciate your involvement in fan events. Please make every effort to attend and support our student athletes.

http://alumni.unc.edu/article.asp?SID=2300

Of course we'll have the big screen up and running down to the Socialist Club for the 9PM tip-off. Bosco will be tending as well.

Eddy Landreth in today's Chapel Hill News

Quote:A year ago, the North Carolina women's basketball team went to the Final Four as the favorite to win the national championship.
Ranked No. 1 at the time, the Tar Heels had lost just a single game all season, and they were on a roll, having avenged that lone loss by beating a powerful Maryland team in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.

But at the semifinals of the Final Four, a knee injury in the first half to All-American point guard Ivory Latta played the biggest role in UNC falling to the Terrapins in a rematch.

Once Latta was injured, the Terrapins' strong inside game took control.

Now, as UNC heads into its second consecutive Final Four, the Tar Heels concede the glitz and glitter of last year's event also captured their attention beyond what was probably healthy for a team trying to win a title.

"I think our players will be a little more grounded when we get there," said coach Sylvia Hatchell, the first ACC women's basketball coach to win the national championship. "Last year I think they were just overwhelmed. There is all-day media. Last year, they were like, 'When is it going to end?'

"So I don't think they will be as overwhelmed by all the fanfare, the hoopla and that kind of thing."

Tonight at 9 in Cleveland in the semifinals of the 2007 Final Four, the top-seeded Tar Heels (34-3) will have to defeat No. 1-seeded Tennessee (32-3) for the third consecutive time in two years to move to the title game on Tuesday.

That will be no easy task.

Carolina defeated Tennessee at Carmichael Auditorium 70-57 earlier this season. To beat the Volunteers again, Carolina must contain the nation's top performer in 6-foot-4 Candace Parker, who is playing her finest basketball at the moment.

Parker can play anywhere on the court. Her numbers are staggering, really. She averages better than 19 points per game and better than nine rebounds. She also averages 2.4 assists, 2.8 blocks, 1.9 steals and is shooting 52 percent from the floor.

The winner of the UNC-Tennessee semifinal will meet the winner of tonight's 7 p.m. game, between LSU (30-7) and Rutgers (26-8), in Tuesday's national championship final.

The Tar Heels will have the right mental outlook, junior forward Erlana Larkins said.

"It's exciting, I guess," Larkins said. "If this had been my first year, I would have been pretty excited. Now, I'm not really excited. I'm just ready to go back and win."

Hatchell said she believes this is the attitude of her entire team, which has been focused on this moment since losing in the semifinals last season.

"All year long, postseason play has been our focus," Hatchell said. "That is what we set our peaking, our timing toward. I think they want to go back and do more than what they did last year."

Carolina is playing its best ball, too. The interior line is attacking the basket and rebounding the ball the best it has all season, and Latta has finally returned to her old self.

Team physicians discovered her knee injury was more serious than first believed last spring. She underwent surgery and only recently has regained the quickness that makes her such a special player.

"I thought at the ACC Tournament she was back to her old self, with her confidence, her speed, her driving," Hatchell said. "Now she has all that back, and she has the leadership she's developed this year in not being able to do some of those things."

Not coincidentally, Carolina won the ACC Tournament for the third consecutive season. And Latta has kept driving Carolina forward.

"In our Purdue game [in the round of eight], she did some things she hasn't been doing all year," Hatchell said. "She blew by some people. The coaches, we were talking about it: 'She's got it back. She's got that quickness and speed we had not seen this year.'

"It took a lot longer for her to get all that back than we expected. But I never made a big deal out of it. I just let her do what she could do."

Latta promises one thing: Everyone will see the old Ivory Latta this weekend at the Final Four because she's going there to win a national championship.

"It's very exciting to go back to the Final Four," Latta said. "Any game could be my last game here at the University of North Carolina. So I can't take anything for granted.

"We've got some unfinished business to take care of when we go to Cleveland."

http://www.chapelhillnews.com/107/story/6414.html

I'm obligated to attend my MIL's 75th b-day dinner party tonight, so I'll miss the game.

Beat the Vols.

Like the rhythms ... GO HEELS!!!!! After the awful Florida/UCLA game last night, I need some quality hoops ...

Pringle...P=85, E=85, I=55, M=70

She's been playing great basketball the last few weeks ... could be where we get some key points and blocks ...

Breland...P=90, E=95, I=75, M=80

Super frosh looks ready to contribute ...

Quote:And Ivory Latta just keeps winning over fans. Her friendships with celebrities like LeBron James and rapper/actor Ludacris are well-documented. At the Dallas Regional last week, former UNC star and Milwaukee Bucks rookie David Noel, and his teammate, eight-year NBA veteran Earl Boykins, took time out to attend a Tar Heels' game. Heck, when I was at a Dallas Mavericks game last week, Jerry Stackhouse, another former UNC standout, pulled me aside and told me to wish Latta and UNC good luck.

Quote:Hatchell was a graduate assistant for Summitt back when she was at Tennessee-Martin.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/ncaatourne...id=2820793