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Mike Potter ·
27 Nov 2009, 10:02 PM ·
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N.C. State will play in the championship game of Vanderbilt’s tournament, and Duke finished a sweep of its two games in Cancun.
But a slow start sealed N.C. Central’s fate at George Mason in the other women’s basketball game involving the Triangle’s Division I schools on Friday.
Duke’s Jasmine Thomas (pictured) had the best game of the night, producing her first career triple-double in the Blue Devils’ 74-43 win over Marquette.
Freshman Marissa Kastanek led all scorers with 16 points, while Lucy Ellison added career highs of 15 points and 15 rebounds as the Wolfpack got past Northwestern State 76-67 in the first round of the Vanderbilt Thanksgiving Tournament at Memorial Gym. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
20 Nov 2009, 11:01 PM ·
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N.C. State coach Kellie Harper, with husband and assistant coach Jon Harper and Marissa Kastanek, #23, in the background, directs traffic during her 100th win on Friday night against Davidson. (Photo by Jeremy Lange).
REYNOLDS COLISEUM/RALEIGH Kellie Harper is quickly into her fourth home game in her short tenure as head coach at N.C. State, and tonight she has an opportunity to reach an early milestone.
The 32-year-old former Western Carolina coach, who comes into the game with a 2-1 record this season, can get her 100th career victory. Not in the realm of the 1,000-plus wins her mentor Pat Summitt has at Tennessee, but how many people have started careers as college or even high school coaches and never gotten to triple figures?
Tonight she’ll be facing an old foe, at least for her. Harper was 6-5 in her tenure at WCU against Southern Conference rival Davidson, which oddly hasn’t played the Wolfpack since 1976. The Wildcats, under former Wolfpack assistant Annette Watts, are 0-2.
And it’s a mismatch from the start, en route to a 79-54 Wolfpack victory.
The Wolfpack leads 3-0, then 10-2, then 41-15 at halftime.
Everything the home team does seems to work pretty well, as State outrebounds the Wildcats 30-11 at the break and shoots 47.1 percent to Davidson’s 24.1. Bonae Holston and Tia Bell are already in double figures at the break. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
10 Nov 2009, 12:13 AM ·
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UNC completes the exhibition portion of its women’s basketball schedule tonight at 7, when Division II Carson-Newman visits the Smith Center at 7 p.m.
Carson-Newman is the alma mater of veteran Tar Heel coach Sylvia Hatchell (pictured), who played both volleyball and basketball for the Eagles and earned her B.S. in physical education there.
The No. 5 Tar Heels topped Francis Marion 105-64 in their first exhibition game on Thursday night.
Carson-Newman has played a pair of exhibitions, falling at Middle Tennessee State 96-68 and at Tennessee 124-34.
The Tar Heels begin regular-season play on Friday night at home against the College of Charleston. Continue reading »
ACC, Basketball, UNC-Chapel Hill, Women's Basketball Ashley Kyle, Carson-Newman, Cetera DeGraffenreid, College of Charleston, Dean Walsh, Jessica Breland, Middle Tennessee State, Shari Buford, Sylvia Hatchell, Tennessee Lady Vols
Mike Potter ·
2 Nov 2009, 11:21 PM ·
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REYNOLDS COLISEUM/RALEIGH It’s the first time new coach Kellie Harper has trotted her N.C. State women’s basketball team out in front of the public.
There have been, of course, plenty of changes since last season for the Wolfpack. Harper, a three-time NCAA champion as a point guard at Tennessee who went 97-65 in her tenure at Western Carolina, replaced the late Kay Yow in the spring after a search in which athletics director Lee Fowler decided interim coach Stephanie Glance was not going to get the full-time job.
State is missing only one player from last-season’s team, but then-senior go-to guard and leading scorer Shayla Fields was a very important loss.
At 32 Harper - who was known as Kellie Jolly during her playing days with the Lady Vols - is the youngest coach in the ACC. So far looks like she could still get out there and run at practice, which she often does.
Tonight’s exhibition opponent is Division II North Greenville, the connection being that NGU assistant Scott Moore was a volunteer on Harper’s staff at WCU.
It’s not supposed to be much of a contest against the much smaller visitors, and it isn’t. State scores the game’s first 11 points, leads 42-17 at halftime and holds its biggest margin of 87-44 at the final buzzer.
The Wolfpack shoots 45.8 percent from the floor to 23.1 for the Crusaders and wins the rebound battle 62-25. Points in the paint are 46-4.
State gets five players in double figures, as sophomore forward Bonae Holston (pictured) leads the way with 19 points and 11 rebounds. Continue reading »
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Mike Potter ·
1 Nov 2009, 9:16 PM ·
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New coach Kellie Harper will lead her N.C. State women’s basketball team against outside opposition for the first time Monday night at Reynolds Coliseum.
The Wolfpack, which returns 11 of 12 players from last season’s team, will take on North Greenville in a 7 p.m. exhibition.
Harper (pictured), a former Tennessee guard who played on three NCAA title teams, was 97-65 in five seasons at Western Carolina. She led the Catamounts to the Southern Conference title last season.
State was 13-17 last season under the late Kay Yow and then interim head coach Stephanie Glance. Continue reading »
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