Pre-Season Top 10
August 22, 2008 by Ryan Pravato
Filed under Basketball
Promising that I would release my selections…
#1
Without the unparalleled presence of Tyler Hansbrough, this year’s UNC squad might just have fallen into the trap of entitlement.
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The players could easily look around and see that every one of the starters is back… plus the sixth man, notice that turnover machine Quentin Thomas graduated, feel comfort in Roy Williams’s oversight of each drill, meeting and walk through and really, habitually, know there’s a couple mindboggling good recruits fattening the depth even more in the interior and perimeter; so it’s all good.
Then the complacency sets in and ‘flip the …read more
1/2 – Kent State versus North Carolina – as it happens
January 2, 2008 by Rich Carlson
Filed under Basketball
As we start out 2008, I figured the best way to kick things off is to do a running commentary of the #1 team in the nation – the North Carolina Tar Heels. The Heels come into the game a bit short handed – backup guard Bobby Frasor blew out his knee and is gone for the season, backup guard Quentin Thomas is nursing an ankle injury is questionable for the game, and forward Alex Stephenson is away from the team attending to family matters.
Will the lack of depth hurt UNC?
The announcing crew is Mike Patrick and Len Elmore. Let’s …read more




