Boston College
North Carolina
Eagles Lose 82-60 to No. 2 North Carolina
February 01, 2007 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 1, 2007
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BOSTON (AP) - Ivory Latta started slowly before scoring 11 of her 20 points in the last 7 minutes of the first half and second-ranked North Carolina pulled away from Boston College for an 82-60 victory Thursday night.
Camille Little and LaToya Pringle each had 15 points and nine rebounds for North Carolina (24-0, 8-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), which beat No. 3 Maryland in its last game and plays No. 1 Duke next.
Boston College led 16-15 midway through the first, and Latta was scoreless before hitting a 3-pointer with 6:51 left to give North Carolina a 23-18 lead. After Corey Rusin made two free throws for BC (11-11, 1-7), the Tar Heels scored the next nine points.
By the time the half was over, North Carolina had scored 24 of the last 32 points and held BC to one basket in the final 8:02. Latta hit her third 3-pointer to make it 43-26 with 1:04 left in the half.
"She started off kind of quiet in the first half," BC guard Sarah Marshall said. "She missed her first couple of shots, then she hits one and you look up and she's in double figures."
Kathrin Ress had 15 points and six rebounds for Boston College, and Ayla Brown had 13 and nine as the Eagles lost their third straight and seventh of eight since New Year's Day.
"It's hard when you're losing, but I don't think our players are defeated. We are getting better," BC coach Cathy Inglese said. "Now that we're going into the ACC heavy hitters, it's hard for people on the outside to see we are getting better."
North Carolina was coming off an 84-71 victory Sunday over defending NCAA champion Maryland, which beat the Tar Heels in the national semifinals last spring when the Final Four was played in Boston. They will host Duke in Chapel Hill next Thursday.
