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Latta finished her time at Carolina as the school's all-time leader in career points, three-pointers, three-point percentage and free-throw percentage. She tallied 2,285 career points, 85 more than any other Tar Heel in program history.
2005-06 Season Notes: Selected as National Player of the Year by ESPN.com, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), Gballmag.com and Basketball Times ... Runner-up for Associated Player of the Year honors ... Nancy Lieberman Award winner as point guard of the year ... Consensus All-America selection, UNC's first since Tracy Reid in 1998 ... Voted 2006 Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, the first UNC player so honored since 1998 ... Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament Cleveland Regional ... ACC Tournament MVP for the second year in a row as UNC won the second of back-to-back titles ... One of four finalists for the Honda Award ... WBCA National Player of the Month for February ... ACC Player of the Week, Jan. 30 and Feb. 26 ... Started all 35 games in 2005-06 and has played in all 100 since coming to UNC ... One of three team captains ... Led UNC in scoring with 18.4 points per game (second in the ACC) and in assists with 5.2 per game (fourth in the ACC) ... Led the ACC in free throw percentage (85.2) ... Had a streak of 60 consecutive games with a three-pointers snapped when she went 0-for-4 against Purdue, but still shot a career-best 40.1 percent from long range for the season ... Scored in double figures in all but the Charleston Southern game (seven points), in which she played a career-low 13 minutes in a lopsided win, and the game at Wake Forest (eight points) ... Led the team in minutes played with an average of 32.1 per game ... Scored a career-high 33 points in the Dec. 29 overtime win at Old Dominion, with eight of her points coming in the overtime period as UNC rallied for the victory after trailing through most of the game ... Played all 45 minutes of the ODU game ... Tied her career high with five three-pointers at Miami, hitting her first five field goals, four of them three-pointers, and scoring 14 points in the game's first eight minutes ... Played all 40 minutes with 17 points and six assists in the Jan. 29 win at Duke ... Led UNC with 18 points, 11 of them in the second half, in the Feb. 2 win over NC State ... Led UNC with 30 points - including a career-high six three-pointers - in the Feb. 5 win at Georgia Tech ... Averaged 24 points and shot 55 percent from the field in wins at Wake Forest and at Duke to earn ACC Player of the Week honors on Jan. 30 ... Scored 21 points, eight of them in the extra period, in the overtime loss to Maryland ... Played only 12 minutes in the first half of that game after picking up her third foul ... Hit two three-pointers in the final minute of overtime as the Tar Heels struggled for the lead - her second came with 27 seconds to play and drew UNC to within one, 96-95, but Maryland then hit two free throws for the final margin ... Led UNC with 26 points in the win at Virginia Tech ... Played 35 minutes in that game with just one turnover and five assists and also had her first block of the year ... Had a career-high nine steals and a team-best 23 points in the win over Boston College ... Led UNC with 18 points in the win over No. 1 Duke on Feb. 25 ... Earned her second ACC Player of the Week award of the season on Feb. 26 after averaging 20.5 points and six steals in wins over Boston College and Duke... Led |
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