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Nikki Teasley's Career Bio (PDF Format)
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Career notes: North Carolina's career leader in assists with a total of 728, second in ACC history ... Also the school's career leader in three-pointers with 236, fourth in ACC history ... Career assists average of 5.8 per game is the highest in ACC history ... First player in ACC history to lead the conference in assists all four years of her career ... Just second player in conference history to be named first team All-ACC Tournament four times ... First player in school history and second player in conference history to score 1,500 points and hand out 600 assists in her career ... Helped UNC to the ACC Tournament Championship and at least the NCAA Sweet 16 in all four years of her career
2001-02 Season Notes: Named first-team Atlantic Coast Conference and first-team All-ACC Tournament ... One of three finalists for the ESPN The Magazine's Point Guard of the Year Award ... Ranked among the ACC's top five in scoring (fifth), assists (first), three-pointers (second), three-point percentage (second), free throw percentage (first), steals (fourth) and assist-turnover ratio (second) ... After starting on the wing early in the season, moved back to her natural starting point guard spot for the Jan. 27 game against Virginia ... Hit 23 consecutive free throws, a streak that began in the Kentucky game (Nov. 28) and ended with a miss on the second shot of a one-and-one in the UT-Martin game (Jan. 7) ... Scored 20 or more points eight times ... Handed out a then-season-high nine assists and committed just one turnover while leading the team in scoring with 22 points against Florida State on Feb. 4 ... Scored 23 points (15 in the second half), including five three-pointers, against NC State on Feb. 10 .... Grabbed a season-high 10 rebounds and scored 19 points against Duke on Feb. 24 to register the ninth of her career ... Associated Press All-America honorable mention selection ... Two-time ACC Player of the Week ... Preseason All-ACC selection and Preseason Naismith Player of the Year candidate ... MVP of the Winthrop Lady Eagle Classic .... Participated in the ESPN College Slam Dunk and Three-Point Championships and the WBCA All-Star Challenge ... Returned to the team after taking the 2000-01 season away from school for personal and health reasons
1999-2000 Season Notes: Named MVP of the 2000 ACC Tournament after scoring 31 points, including seven three-pointers, in the championship game ... A third-team All-ACC selection ... Earned All-ACC Tournament honors for the third consecutive season ... Named ACC Player of the Week in two of the last three weeks of the season ... Scored her 1,000th career point in the game at Maryland on Dec. 2 ... Handed out her 500th career assist in the ACC Tournament game against Clemson ... Marked her 200th career steal against Duke in the ACC Championship game ... Took a seven-game leave of absence from the team from Jan. 5 until Jan. 24, when she rejoined the squad for practice ... Returned to the court for the Maryland game on Jan. 30 and scored 11 points, all in the second half ... In the eight regular-season games following her return, averaged 15.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, 6.4 assists and 3.1 turnovers in 32.6 minutes of play ... Against Virginia on Feb. 7, scored the final 10 points of regulation, including two free throws with 25 seconds to play to send the game into overtime ... Her seven threes in the ACC title game tied the school single-game record set by Stephanie Lawrence against Robert Morris on Dec. 4, 1992 .... Listed among the top 10 preseason candidates for the Naismith College Player of the Year Award
1998-99 Season Notes: Named first-team All-ACC Tournament and second-team All-ACC ... Surpassed UNC's single-season record for assists on Feb. 21 against Duke with her 170th of the season and finished the year with 211 ... Led the ACC in steals and assists per game and ranked sixth in scoring ... Became the first player since Virginia's Dawn Staley in 1990-91 and 1991-92 to lead the ACC in assists in back-to-back seasons ... Also the first player since Staley in 1991-92 to lead the league in both assists and steals in the same season ... Totaled 15 assists against Georgia Tech on Jan. 24 to establish a UNC single-game record, since surpassed by Coretta Brown ... Her 92 steals ranked ninth on UNC's single-season steals list ... Two-time ACC Player of the Week, both times after leading the team to overtime wins ... At Florida State on Dec. 5, scored a career-high 32 points, including 10 points in overtime ... On Feb. 14 against Virginia, hit a free throw to tie the game with 57 seconds remaining, then scored seven of the team's 12 points in overtime
1997-98 Season Notes: Earned ACC Rookie of the Year honors ... Averaged 5.5 assists per game to lead the conference, only the second time that a freshman had done so ... Also led all conference freshmen in scoring with 12.9 points per game ... Named to the All-ACC Tournament and All-Mideast Region teams ... Averaged 12 points, four rebounds and 4.5 assists in the Mideast Region games against Illinois and Tennessee .... Set a school record for assists by a freshman with 166 .... Scored a then-career-high 28 points, including 12 points in the overtime periods, as Carolina beat Virginia 85-84 in double overtime on Feb. 15 ... In her collegiate debut against Buffalo on Nov. 19, scored 27 points, handed out 10 assists and grabbed seven rebounds .... Battled severe patellar tendinitis and missed four games as a result.
National/International: In the summer of 1997, captained the gold-medal winning USA Junior World Championship team, on which she played with future Carolina teammate Juana Brown.
At St. John's at Prospect Hall in Frederick, Md.: Coached by Kevin Sutton, Stu Vetter and Steve Kennedy ... Was rated the No. 1 women's basketball recruit in the nation by Blue Star magazine ... A high school All-America each of her four years ... Named the Parade magazine and Gatorade Player of the Year in 1997 ... Named the Gatorade Player of the Year for Maryland as a sophomore, junior and senior ... Averaged 27.1 points, 9.3 rebounds and 8.5 assists per game during her senior year ... Broke records for scoring (30 points), field goal attempts (24) and field goals (14) in the WBCA All-Star Game in the spring of 1997.
Personal: Born Michelle Nicole Teasley on March 22, 1979 ... The daughter of Ernestine Teasley ... She has three older brothers, Michael, Tony and Ernie, and a younger brother, Sherrod ... African-American studies major
