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Women Basketball Prepares for Duke
By Steve Lyerly

The Lady Heels are trying to re-adjust after a tough week, as they hit the halfway point of their conference schedule. Carolina Week's Steve Lyerly has the story.

The ladies are down, but they are hoping this week they can get back up. After starting the season 13-2, the Lady Heels have lost three out of their last four; including loses to rival N.C. State and Georgia Tech.

UNC-CH guard Coretta Brown said, "It's crazy. It's like you said, we started out blowing teams out. The first time we played Wake Forest, we blew them out by 30 and then to lose to them by one at their place, it's kind of hard."

Injuries to key players like Candace Sutton and a one game suspension to star guard Nikki Teasley have compounded the streak of bad luck.

Carolina center Candance Sutton said, "Definitely, our intensity level has gone down a lot. We played tremendous at the beginning of the season. Everybody was fired up and intense and I think that's something that we have to get back."

The ladies know the season is not lost and there is no better way to get back on track than with a win against the top team in the ACC; arch rival Duke.

"It's Duke, so you know you're going to get pumped up. It's our rival school so that's really all the motivation you need to go out there and play hard," said Sutton.

The Lady Heels travel to Durham Thursday night to take on the Devils, going into that game they're 14 and five overall and four and three in ACC play.

 
   

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