Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

COL BKB: W. Forest 119, N. Car 114 (3OT)

|
|
 
  
Published: Dec. 20, 2003 at 8:09 PM

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- Eric Williams scored six of his 24 points in the third overtime Saturday as No. 9 Wake Forest outlasted No. 4 North Carolina, 119-114.

Wake Forest (7-0, 1-0 ACC) rallied from a 111-107 deficit with 3:42 to play. Demon Deacons Coach Skip Prosser improved to 5-0 against the Tar Heels with his first win over new Carolina Coach Roy Williams.

Williams, who left Kansas after last season for North Carolina (6-1, 0-1), prsided over the school's first loss ever when scoring over 100 points. Each team had a pair of players foul out.

Eric Williams snapped the game's final tie with an inside hoop with 36 seconds left. Wake's Kyle Visser came up with a block of Jackie Manuel before Taron Downey made 1-of-2 at the line for a 117-114 edge with 18 seconds to go.

Topics: Eric Williams, Roy Williams
© 2003 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Linsanity The Daytona 500 Cheerleaders of 2012
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 27
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
View Caption
Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler
fark
Real-life Waterworld, colonizing the oceans to free human progress from the choking grasp of regulation....
Your husband was killed in a plane crash on a private plane when a drunk passenger assaulted the...
Holocaust survivor's estate ordered to return golden Assyrian tablet he looted after WWII to the...
Photoshop these sons in service
Ugly-ass coyote pups born in Golden Gate Park, increasing population to 13. Local homeless demand...
The pink wines of summer are here. Or you could just turn in your man card right now, Nancy