Virginia Tech Preview and Game Thread
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I did not mind a foul there, VT had an open cutter in transition. Nivar stopped the ball. But yeah it was totally a foul.
Why weren’t all of our players around the 3 point line? Crazy
I’ll take it. I don’t intend to watch it again.
Nyla Harris going 6/6 from the Foul Line, won us that game!
She makes me call on JESUS at least three times per game!
The difference in team speed in that game jumped out to me. that could certainly be an issue going forward.
I would really like to watch a stress free basketball game. Men's or women's.
Please lord let Harping be our possession guard savior.
Please lord let Harping be our possession guard savior.
Good luck! Not really our theme right now. I suggest a good adult beverage.
The team deserves a lot of credit for hanging in there and doing enough to win this game. BUT we need play with our hair on fire more. There were some instances of lackadaisical getting back on D that led to easy buckets. We improved that, but we need to do that as a rule. Not having RK is really hurting our offense when we are up against more athletic teams. We have no one who can turn the corner and draw the defense. Everyone is going to have to step it up from here on out.
7 of 17 on layups.
16 of 19 on FTs is pretty awesome. Of course VT shot 100%. UNC now leads the ACC in opponent FT% at a whopping 80.4%. I guess we need to work on our FT defense
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35% from 3 is better than I thought. But 38% from 2 is
Nivar credited with 4 steals but I counted 6 caused TOs.
interesting stat from the TV today: Harris leads the ACC in paint points. But I will add that at only 47 attempts before today she is not even top 20 in FT attempts. Every single team in the ACC except BC has a player that attempted more FTs than Harris. That has to be a pretty rare combination.
ugly game, but UNc played great defense when not giving up transition points.
8 blocks by UNC, 7 by VT contributed to the ugly.
over the last 6 games, opponent scoring below their season average (in 40 min regulation):
16 of 19 on FTs is pretty awesome. Of course VT shot 100%. UNC now leads the ACC in opponent FT% at a whopping 80.4%. I guess we need to work on our FT defense
?35% from 3 is better than I thought. But 38% from 2 is
Nivar credited with 4 steals but I counted 6 caused TOs.
interesting stat from the TV today: Harris leads the ACC in paint points. But I will add that at only 47 attempts before today she is not even top 20 in FT attempts. Every single team in the ACC except BC has a player that attempted more FTs than Harris. That has to be a pretty rare combination.
ugly game, but UNc played great defense when not giving up transition points.
8 blocks by UNC, 7 by VT contributed to the ugly.
over the last 6 games, opponent scoring below their season average (in 40 min regulation):
- NCSU 59 - 78 = -19
- Clemson 44 - 70 = -26
- WF 56 - 66 = -10
- SMU 42 - 63 = -21
- dook: 68 - 76 = -8
- VT: 57- 74 = -17
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If you got a busy signal that was my fault.
I know she does a ton of positive things pushing the ball and getting steals, but my hope is that Harpring brings better decision making and efficiency. If that happens replacing Nivar next season won’t be as hard.
We are in double bye today for the ACC tournament
Thats nice
Thats nice
Another win! Found yet a different path to a victory. Keep stacking wins, Heels! On to the next.
Grateful for a win the Heels needed.
I view HD and CB in same light- wonderful people, admirable representatives for our university and treat their players as people, not interchangable parts. Yet both programs are stuck. . Neither has had a consistent offense in years, thought CB's team brings effort consistently. Other programs are moving past UNC in the conference and nationally. If we're not moving ahead, we're falling behind, The incoming administration must face either accepting the trend or making changes. Such is college athletics now.
I view HD and CB in same light- wonderful people, admirable representatives for our university and treat their players as people, not interchangable parts. Yet both programs are stuck. . Neither has had a consistent offense in years, thought CB's team brings effort consistently. Other programs are moving past UNC in the conference and nationally. If we're not moving ahead, we're falling behind, The incoming administration must face either accepting the trend or making changes. Such is college athletics now.
CB has UNC routinely punching at or above its historical weight in a sport that's significantly more top-heavy than MBB. I don't think she's perfect and like I've said before, I think there is a pretty wide spectrum of reasonable opinions to have about her - but putting her in the same sentence as people like Davis and Belichick is simply asinine.
They missed 7 layups, that is 14 points. If they would have made them the game, the game would have been over without having to go to OT. I do not understand how you can missed that many when you are so close to the goal. It has got to be mental, not being focused. If you aim the ball to the middle of the square, it should go in. If I was CB and Staff, I would track those players who have the highest percentage of missing them, and I would have one of my assistant coaches to take those players and practice making layups by aiming towards the middle of the square using both hands for about 15 to 20 minutes after practice when they are tired. There is no excuse for missing that many in a game. It makes you wonder if they practice using a lay up drill during practice. If they missed the layup either the team or that player has to run a suicide down and back for each one that she misses. This should help them concentrate more on making them.
I would like to give a huge shout out to LG. I know I have been on her at times; however, I would like to give props where they are due. LG has been balling on both sides of the ball. She has officially made that huge jump from her freshman year to her sophomore year. I am so glad that she is a Tarheel. The game is starting to slow down for her and she has figure it out. I am so proud of her. Her new handle moving forward will the LG2.0. NB's defense has gotten a whole lot better since the beginning of the year. I would like to give her props as well. The hard work that both of these two young women are putting in is starting to pay off. Go Heels!
Agreed. And our offense is the best its been since our first S16 under Banghart in 2021. There is still room for improvement for sure.
So far this year: 75 ppg
2024-2025: 69 ppg (S16)
2023-2024: 67 ppg
2022-2023: 69 ppg
2021-2022: 73 ppg (S16)
2020-2021: 75 ppg
2019-2020: 73 ppg
Everyone wants UNC to be at the top of basketball on the men's and women's side. I get that. I want that, too! But as they've pointed out, UNC wasn't always exactly an elite program except for the early 80s, the Ivory Latta days and a few pre-scandal years.. Banghart has UNC poised to go to the NCAA tournament for the sixth year in a row... something our program has only ever done ONCE before (a span of 10 from 2002-2011). She's only been to two S16 so far, but parity is also much different now than it was before.
Hubert can't get his team to play hard or be ready for a game. He continues to use the same excuse over and over. CB's team is rarely like that. Except for the first half of the VT game and the ND game, I rarely ever see this WBB program not competing or ready to play. I have my issues with how CB does thing, so I'm not here saying she's an amazing coach. But I would encourage others to look at the bigger picture, too, and not just the immediate thing in front of their face.
In my opinion, next year is the year that we are really going to figure out what CB's mark on this program is going to be (depending on transfers, etc.).
I know you're propping up this current era of UNC WBB basketball as the one of the greatest ever but how you could forget mid to late 90s. From 94-99, Carolina won the national championship, 4 ACC tournament titles, 1 Elite, 3 Sweet 16s, and 1 ACC regular season title. They did missed the tournament in 1996 and that was the season the star PG/ track star Marion Jones didn't play because she was in the Olympics.
I guess when are in the era in which the standard is making the NCAA tournament. It's similar to the Mike Tomlin Pittsburgh Steelers era of never having a losing record.
You’re ridiculous if you think I’m propping this up as the greatest ever. You took my post and got that? You’re crazy. You are definition of reading something and blowing it way out of proportion. I’m not even completely sold on CB and you’re trying to make it sound like I am saying that… wow. Go argue with a brick wall next. I believe I heard it say nothing and you took offense to it. Good grief. Touch some grass. But I am pointing out that people seem to think our program has been “elite” forever until recently and that’s not true.
I definitely mixed up the national championship year wrong when I wrote that. I’ll own that, I got the wrong decade when I mentioned the 80s.
I definitely mixed up the national championship year wrong when I wrote that. I’ll own that, I got the wrong decade when I mentioned the 80s.
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You have more posts than me and you're telling me to touch grass.
I had assumed that you meant to write the 9Os but you know what they say about assuming.
The recent uptick in team defense is creating movement in the team defense adjusted efficiency ratings. Torvik now has us ranked 10th nationally in defense:7 of 17 on layups.
16 of 19 on FTs is pretty awesome. Of course VT shot 100%. UNC now leads the ACC in opponent FT% at a whopping 80.4%. I guess we need to work on our FT defense
35% from 3 is better than I thought. But 38% from 2 is
Nivar credited with 4 steals but I counted 6 caused TOs.
interesting stat from the TV today: Harris leads the ACC in paint points. But I will add that at only 47 attempts before today she is not even top 20 in FT attempts. Every single team in the ACC except BC has a player that attempted more FTs than Harris. That has to be a pretty rare combination.
ugly game, but UNc played great defense when not giving up transition points.
8 blocks by UNC, 7 by VT contributed to the ugly.
over the last 6 games, opponent scoring below their season average (in 40 min regulation):
average: - 16.8 ppg
- NCSU 59 - 78 = -19
- Clemson 44 - 70 = -26
- WF 56 - 66 = -10
- SMU 42 - 63 = -21
- dook: 68 - 76 = -8
- VT: 57- 74 = -17
we were down around 15th not too long ago so our recent work was well into top 10 to move us up.
if that top ten should hold through the end of the season it will be the 4th time in 5 years with a top ten defense.
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I thought we agreed to let this board be for just women's basketball. I would love to stop comparing us to the men's team and HD. I am going to make one more comment about HD then I will leave it alone. HD has been to the final four. He made to the final game. He beat Duke three times that year and he put Coach K out of the final four. CB and BB have not done or accomplished that yet. Leave the man alone. Also, as I stated before, a coach cannot teach heart, motivation, effort, etc. That falls on the players. Some of yall are taken shots at HD but remember his two best players are out right now. What if our two best players on the ladies team were out. That is going to affect the team no matter how great a coach you are. Caleb and HV provide over 50% of the scoring along with other intangibles that bring to the team..