Feb. 25--Duke Pulls Past UNC 67-62

Top 5 Scorers:
Alison Bales--16
Lindsey Harding--15
Abby Waner--13
Joy Cheek--8
Wanisha Smith--8

Top 5 Rebounders:
Joy Cheek--14
Alison Bales--12
Lindsey Harding--8
Abby Waner--4
Wanisha Smith--3


Top 2 Assists:
Alison Bales--4
A. Waner, Harding, Smith--3

Top 2 Steals:
Abby Waner--6
Lindsey Harding--3

Top Blocks:
Alison Bales--4

29-0 and an undefeated regular season for the Blue Devils. :)
There were plenty of times in the game when the Devils would play sloppily. Due to this, Carolina would creep back into the game slowly and take a slight lead. Impressively, however, the Devils would make some key shots and some key steals during the final minutes of the game to win this one. There were some weird turnovers that had me pulling my head out but UNC happened to have more hair-pulling turnovers (20-15). Abby Waner had some excellent steals during the final minutes of the game. She also scored in double figures so maybe this means her little slump was over. It was a little worrying at the beginning becaus she was missing a lot of her shots.

Strangely enough, our free throw shooting was terrible. I trust that Coach G will have them practicing that for the next two days or somethng. As a whole, the Devils shot 15-33 from the charity stripe which converts to 45.5%. If they were to lose that game, that would really haunt them and their fans as well. As it is, it didn't hurt them as much as it could have. The Dukies are pretty good free throw shooters but today everyone had a problem. 3 of 7...2 of 7...4 of 8...3 of 7.
I figure, if we can beat a good UNC team while shooting this horribly from the FT line, then we have a good chance to win games when they can actually hit from there.

The Cameron crowd was intense and it was so great to watch that game. They had cool signs and at the end of the game (if I heard right) I think they were chanting "un-de-fea-ted" :)

Hopefully Duke can keep this up as pretty much everything is a must-win from now on considering one of their goals is to win the ACC tournament as well.

Congratulations to the Blue Devils on a great regular season! 29-0! 29-0!