{"id":1398,"date":"2011-03-19T21:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T01:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2011-03-19T21:29:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T01:29:55","slug":"unc-women-survive-50-three-point-attempts-to-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"UNC women survive 50 three-point attempts to advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/italeelucascopy1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/italeelucascopy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"UNC WOMEN&#039;S BASKETBALL\" width=\"105\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1400\" \/><\/a>The North Carolina women&#8217;s team survived a 50-three-point shot barrage to defeat Fresno State 82-68 in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Spokane, Wash. today.<\/p>\n<p>Fresno State only connected on 14 threes for a 28 percent clip. Meanwhile, the Tar Heels managed six of 16 threes and had five women in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Italee Lucas led the way with a game-high 22 points. Chay Shegog scored 12, followed by Cetera DeGraffenreid&#8217;s 11 along with Jessica Breland&#8217;s 10 and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt&#8217;s 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took 50 threes \u2014 that\u2019s 10 more than anyone has ever taken on us. We had to make a lot of adjustments to cover that. The big kids had to come out,&#8221; UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell said. By that she means that Carolina&#8217;s tallest players moved out defensively to guard the perimeter players from the three-point line.<\/p>\n<p>Waltiea Rolle, the Tar Heels&#8217; tallest player at 6-foot-6, saw 10 minutes of action while another tall non-starter 6-1 freshman Laura Broomfield played 19 minutes. Starters Shegog, Breland and Krista Gross are 6-5, 6-3 and 6-0 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>UNC advances to the second round in Albuquerque on Monday against the winner of the Kentucky-Hampton game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Carolina women&#8217;s team survived a 50-three-point shot barrage to defeat Fresno State 82-68 in the first round of the NCAA tournament in Spokane,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-uncategorized","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-1-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}