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Will GraVesGraves looks to pick up the pieces from a turbulentsophomore season and rebound in his junior year.

DTH FILE PHOTODeon Thompson (21) and North Carolina enter the season ranked in the top 10, despite losing four of five starters from the 2008-09 NCAAnational championship team. The Tar Heels open their season with Isaiah Thomas’ Florida International team at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9.

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In the weeks leading up to thestart of the 2009-10 men’s basketball season, Roy Williams did aseries of double takes.

North Carolina’s head coachlooked at three magazines thatpublished preseason rankings, andin each one, there North Carolinasat: No. 4 in one, No. 4 again andNo. 5 in another.

Williams didn’t know what tothink.

“It ’s unbel ievable to me,” Williams said. “That was where I would expect us to be picked in ourleague, and that’s where we werepicked in the nation.”

That’s a North Carolina teamthat lost four starters — its top fourscorers from last year’s nationalchampionship squad.

The leading returning scorer isDeon Thompson, with just 10.6points per game.

After UNC won the nation-al championship in 2005, thenational media predicted thatthe Tar Heels would experience amassive championship hangoverthe next season.

In that season, the Tar Heelshad even fewer returning — anunproven Reyshawn Terry, a DavidNoel who had never shown scor-ing potential, and some freshmannamed Tyler Hansbrough.

Picked sixth in the ACC to startthe season, the Tar Heels went on toshare the ACC regular season title.

With that memory still fresh,many publications are putting

expectations on UNC that Williams wouldn’t.

“I told our kids it’s probably because we made everybody lookso bad in 2006 that they don’t want to get caught that way again,” Williams said

Maybe ol’ Roy’s just mad he won’t get to use the low expecta-tions of the national media as amotivational technique.

“It’s really hard to beat that drum when you go in there Saturday morning and say, ‘Alright guys,nobody thinks we’re going to beany good. We lost four starters,’” Williams said.

“And some freshman says, ‘CoachI thought we were ranked fourth inthe nation?’

“I used that card a little bit in2006, but can’t use that card any-more.”

And while Williams plays downhis team’s considerable talent, thattalent overshadows his dismay atthe high expectations.

“I mean, people respect usregardless because we’re NorthCarolina, and just the program hasthat respect,” Larry Drew II said.“And I mean we’re young this year, but we’re still going to go out andplay Carolina basketball, and we’regoing to compete.”

Thompson returns as a double-figure scorer, Tyler Zeller is backas a seven-footer who showed realpromise before breaking his wristearly in the season and Ed Davisspurned a possible lottery pick inlast year’s NBA draft to come backfor his sophomore season.

Marcus Ginyard, a lockdowndefender and senior who redshirt-ed last season with a stress fracture,returns for his final year.

And there’s also a talented five-player freshman class of shoot-ing guards Dexter Strickland andLeslie McDonald and three longand capable forwards in JohnHenson and twins David andTravis Wear.

All told, things look surprisingly similar to 2006 — except with thetremendous talent of Davis in thepost thrown in.

And it helps for certain thatGinyard is still around. The fifth-

year player was one of the fresh-men in 2005.

“There’s no doubt, to hear fromsomeone who’s been through pretty much exactly what they’re going togo through, it probably makes it alittle easier for them to see some of the things that we’re going to try to tell them and try to get in theirheads” Ginyard said.

“And to see that coming fromsomeone they know has beenthrough it is always good.”

But at any rate, it is probably safe to say that North Carolina won’t be underestimated by any opponent this season.

4TYler ZellerUNC’s seven-footer is ready to take up some of theslack left by his former teammate, Tyler Hansbrough.5cOVer sTOrY:OuT Of THe sHadOWsThe Tar Heels are highly rated, mostly because of large and untested talent.

6fresHmeNUNC’s talented five-player freshman class will haveplenty of chances to see action in 2009-10.

8cONNecTicuT Game preVieWAfter being blown out last season, UNC women’sbasketball is eyeing their rematch with the Huskies.

9frONTcOurTRoy Williams has lots of big men to keephappy, but he doesn’t mind the burden.

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Will Graves keeps his nationalchampionship ring within arm’sreach of his pillow.

It also reminds him of the oppor-tunity he allowed to slip throughhis hands.

“From a fan’s perspective, I’min the best position ever becauseI don’t think any other fan in the world has a ring,” Graves said. “Andthen from a player perspective, it’shumbling. I would have loved tohave been out there on the floor toearn it.”

Last February, the backupguard received a suspensionfrom the team after violating anundisclosed team rule. Coach Roy Williams issued a statement citingthat Graves “did not maintain the

standards we expect of a Carolina basketball player.”

When asked about the specificsof the violation, Graves declined tooffer any more details.

“I did some things that a Carolina basketball player is not supposed todo,” he said.

So he missed out on what NorthCarolina players very occasion-ally get to do — play for and win anational title.

“I was there with the team inspirit,” he said. “But I wasn’t ableto be on the court with the team.”

While continuing to practice with the team, Graves spent thefinal 18 games of the season on the bench.

Prior to his suspension, Graveshad a meager impact on theteam, averaging 4 points and 2.6

rebounds a game. But this season,Graves is in position to step up asan integral player on the perimeterin the absence of Wayne Ellington,Danny Green, Ty Lawson andBobby Frasor.

Graves added that he wouldalso like to focus on maturing intoa defensive stopper to aid seniorMarcus Ginyard on the other endof the court.

“I’ve been playing basketballsince I was 4,” he said. “I just goout there and try to live for themoment. And it sounds like a greatopportunity for Carolina basketballto need a shooter.”

As a redshirt junior, Graves’experience has the potential to bean otherwise scarce asset on the young team.

That is, Ginyard said, depending

on what comes from Graves’ expe-rience off of it.

“I just hope that he learned when you’re a part of a team likethis, even your individual choicesand your individual actions haveeffects on other people,” Ginyardsaid.

“And for this team to be able todo what we want to do, everybody’sgot to be on the same page.”

Graves assured his teammatesthat he had turned a page andrecommitted himself to a newending. Forward Deon Thompsoncould understand why.

“Having to sit on the side-lines and watch us win a nationalchampionship, things like thatcan maybe light a fire in him to want to help this team this year,”Thompson said.

“I definitely hope he learns fromthat experience and just doesn’tgo back down that road he wentdown.”

Graves’ suspension never seemedto muffle his vocal presence aroundthe team. For expectant fans at theSmith Center, Graves’ hoots, barksand cries of, “Here we go,” oftenheralded the team’s arrival at every home game.

The same upbeat attitude, he said,is one that will persist as he seeks toearn the trust of a new team by play-ing and by leading.

“I always try to come out witha smile on my face and move forward,” he said. “Learn from my mistakes.”

Ginyard said that Graves isstill earning back the trust of his teammates. Thompson saidhe could not imagine being inGraves’ situation.

“I don’t think anybody from theoutside looking in could put them-selves in his shoes,” he said.

But just as nobody can placethemselves in Graves’ shoes, nobody can walk in them for him either.

Or take him where he wants togo.

“It added fuel to the fire to comeout here and lead a young team toanother national championship,”Graves said.

With his suspension behindhim, he knows there is only one way there.

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Even six months removed fromNorth Carolina’s final game of 2009, center Tyler Zeller is still hav-ing trouble adjusting to life withoutone of last year’s departed stars.

Well, not quite that player inparticular, just his dominatingpopularity.

Namely, Zeller’s still unfamiliar with responding to something thatseems like second nature to justabout everyone — his first name.

“I t j u s t happened today.Somebody yelled ‘Tyler,’ and Ididn’t look for a second. And I’mlike, ‘Dang, that’s me,’” Zeller said.

It’s easy to forgive him for hisdeference to that other Tyler.

After all, Tyler Hansbrough leftNorth Carolina as one of the greatsin program and college basketballhistory, ranking first in the UNCrecord books in points, reboundsand free throws. That’s not to men-tion his national player of the yearaccolades as a junior, or his fourfirst-team All-ACC selections.

And for an encore in his seniorseason, Hansbrough cemented hislegend by capturing t he Tar Heels’fifth NCAA title.

Zeller, meanwhile, hasn’t proved

much of anything just yet.He broke his left wrist in

UNC’s game against Kentucky inNovember, costing him most of hisfreshman season. He didn’t returnuntil late February in a gameagainst N.C. State.

And even after he came back,Zeller never seemed to get comfort-able in the offense the rest of the way,and he played only a minor role inUNC’s championship run.

Zeller averaged just 3.1 pointsand two rebounds per game inlimited minutes.

“Going back to last year, it wasa great experience, and I learned alot. But I never felt in the flow of the game,” Zeller said. “When I did,it was kind of one of those thingsthat I would get in the flow for alittle bit and then I’d get out of it.”

But with a full offseason of pickupgames in Chapel Hill, Zeller said, hefeels much more integrated withinthe team’s framework, and he’s com-fortable again on the court.

UNC’s other big bodies downlow have noticed the change.

He received praise from SeanMay, Deon Thompson and EdDavis for his work in the offsea-son. They also talked about histhreat in the Tar Heels’ up-tempo

offense.“I think people just got a little

glimpse about how good he really is,” Thompson said. “He’s really tal-ented, being seven-foot and to beable to run the floor and be able toscore as quick as he does with jumphooks.”

Davis said that Zeller’s morethan back to where he was beforethe injury and that his frontcourtpartner should be able to contrib-ute significantly to the offense.

“He’s gotten much better sincethe first day,” Davis said. “He gotthat much better at everything.His shots are getting better and hisexplosiveness is getting better.”

But Zeller worked on more than just honing his basketball skills inthe time he had away from orga-nized team activities. Weight gain was also a priority for the 2008Mr. Basketball out of Indiana, who weighed just 212 pounds when hearrived on campus.

After a full year of tutelage fromUNC’s strength and conditioningcoach Jonas Sahratian, Zeller’s

build is up to a muscular 241, more befitting of his 7-0 frame.

That weight gain should pay dividends establishing his posi-tion against some of the talentedpost players in the ACC, such asClemson’s Trevor Booker or WakeForest’s Al-Farouq Aminu.

Zeller admitted he was pushedaround last season when going forrebounds but added that he feelsmuch stronger on the court now.

But defense isn’t the only placeZeller’s extra muscle should help.

“It’s going to help him beable to hold guys off in the post,”Thompson said. “Seal guys off, getdeeper post position.”

But as for being the “other” Tyler,Zeller’s not sweating it.

Besides, he’s already used to being the “other” somebody — theother Zeller.

“I’ve always been compared tomy older brother, so I’ve just kindof always been used to it,” Zellersaid. “It means something to me, but at the same time I’m also my own person.”

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By mike ehrlichsenior Writer

F or seventh-year head coachRoy Williams, the 2009-10North Carolina basketball

season will not begin with the firstgame (against Florida Internationalon Nov. 9).

Or with the first exhibition, or even with Late Night with Roy.

This season began long before any of that, with a conversation and a con-clusion.

Actually it was an extended seriesof conversations with no players, noopponents and no wives. Williams andhis staff took a three-day retreat forsome uninterrupted discussion aboutdefending his team’s latest nationalchampionship.

“We talked for 18 hours, just basketball, and the biggest conclusion was: We don’t know,” Williams said. “Wedon’t know what we have.”

It might be uncertain exactly whatthe Tar Heels have this year, but it isglaringly obvious what they do nothave. All you’ll have to do is look upinto the rafters for a reminder.

“For the last four years, one thingthat we did come to expect was thatTyler (Hansbrough) was going to getafter it harder than anybody else outthere,” senior Marcus Ginyard said.

Replacing aguy that the folksat TheSporting News named college basketball’s athlete of the decade will be a talltask for UNC’s post. In fact, the TarHeels haven’t even gotten accustomedto his absence.

“I actually keep looking for him,”

Williams said. “You know, where’s Waldo? Where’s Tyler?”Hansbrough isn’t the only Tar Heel

gone M.I.A. UNC is also missing FinalFour Most Outstanding Player WayneEllington, an excellent defender and3-point shooter in Danny Greenand the catalyst to the 2009 title, Ty Lawson.

All in all, nearly 75 percent of UNC’s scoring from a year ago has been erased. That leaves some pretty large shoes to fill.

I t is a scenario that begs com-parison to the 2006 team, which was charged with the

similar task of defending a nationalchampionship without its four bestplayers from the year before.

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But upon a closer look, there isa major difference between 2010and 2006. In ’06, it wasn’t just that Williams and the Tar Heels didn’tquite know what they had; they hardly even knew who they had.

Their most dependable return-ing player was a forward — DavidNoel — who averaged 3.9 points pergame, and nobody else had logged any crunch-time minutes. The result wasthree freshmen named Marcus, Tylerand Bobby starting in their very firstcollegiate game.

Ginyard, the only player to be inChapel Hill for both title defenses,said the team is better equipped thistime around.

“It’s definitely a completely differ-ent situation,” Ginyard said. “There’sno doubt that there’s a lot of piecesmissing from last year’s team, just asthere was from the 2005 team. Butthere’s no question we are return-ing more contributors to this teamfrom the national championship last year.”

F or this year’s Tar Heels, theuncertainty is less funda-mental and therefore more

complex.Sure, they return two senior leaders

in Ginyard and Deon Thompson. Butone hasn’t participated in a real gamesince early January, and the other onehas never been top dog.

And sure, North Carolina’s got aseven-footer who can run the floor.But Tyler Zeller missed 13 weeks with a broken wrist and, justifiably,

appeared lost upon his return midway through the ACC slate.The best returning shooter was

suspended from the team in early February for violating team rulesand had to watch from the bench ashis teammates stormed through theNCAA Tournament.

And the guy slated to direct all of these parts from the crucial pointguard spot might be the biggest ques-tion mark of them all, as he lookedoverwhelmed as a backup in his first year.

“Previous teams before, you kindof could look and see what you weregoing to get,” Thompson said. “Youcould see how the team was goingto score, how they could get defense, where the points are going to come

from.“But with this team you just don’t

know. It’s just ’cause it’s so wide open,and so many different types of talentsand different types of players.”

But wait, how can there be thismany question marks on a team thatall the experts are still expecting to beamong the top five or 10 teams in thenation?

Well, that same question has Williams baffled this preseason.

“I picked up three magazines and we’re (Nos.) 4, 4 and 5. That was where I would expect us to be pickedin our league, and that’s where we were picked in the nation.

“So I told our kids, it’s probably

because we made everybody look so bad in 2006, that they don’t want toget caught that way again.”

Therealbasisfor thepreseasonhype is probably a little moreconcrete than that. It’s likely

because forevery question markNorthCarolina has, it’s also got its fair shareof exclamation points.

Forward Ed Davis was projected to be a top-five pick in the NBA Draft, but he elected to return for his sopho-more season, and he spent the sum-mer working on improving his insidescoring.

Ginyard was able to overcome hisinjury and some taunts about his oldage to be what Williams called “thestar of the show” in the offseason fit-ness tests. He worked on his outsideshooting stroke during the offseason, which, if improved, would make hima much more complete player.

And Larry Drew II said he’sapproaching the season with moreconfidence in a role that he knows ishis to lose.

Plus, there are three very talentedfreshman bigs who are champing atthe bit to get on the court. And they know that their older teammates have been to the promised land.

“You just lead by example, people will follow,” Thompson said.

“I’m definitely going to bring theeffort every day on the court, in the weight room. But definitely just beingmore vocal … on a team like this one with so many younger guys that are willing to listen to someone that’solder.”

This rare mix of returning talentand nagging uncertainty makes this

preseason unique.

So where will the points comefrom this year for the TarHeels? Will Drew take care of

the ball? Can freshman John Henson be effective on the perimeter?Can WillGraves be both effective and reliable?Does UNC even have a true shootingguard?

The truth is, Williams was right.The biggest conclusion that can bemade about these Tar Heels is that it’stoo early to know.

But that only leaves room to learnas the season begins.

“I think it’s very exciting,” Ginyardsaid. “One because yeah, we don’tknow. But two, we know we’re goodenough to get it done.”

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By JorDan masonsTaFF WriTer

The last time North Carolina won a national championship, theTar Heels were rewarded the fol-lowing season by dropping com-pletely off the preseason Top 25 Associated Press Poll.

The team did lose 91 percent of its scoring and 184 of 185 gamesstarted from the season before. Itstop returning scorer, David Noel,averaged only 3.9 points and 2.6rebounds in the Tar Heels’ cham-pionship run in 2005.

Yet UNC was able to surprise America with a run to the secondround of the NCAA Tournament behind significant contributionsfrom four freshmen, includ-

ing one from Poplar Bluff, Mo., who led the team in scoring andrebounding.

UNC’s newcomers will not beprimary contributors like TylerHansbrough and Bobby Frasor, who started 30 and 31 gamesrespectively as freshmen.

“They’re not expected to come inand win a national championship,”senior forward Deon Thompsonsaid. “So, the pressure on the youngguys isn’t that heavy.”

Not that these freshmen won’tplay. Williams already has plansto play 6-foot-10 forward JohnHenson on the perimeter and causematchup nightmares for opposingcoaches. “He is one that we’re defi-nitely looking at, and we’ll start,

not start the game, but we’re goingto start practice with him on theperimeter,” he said. “But I wouldn’t be surprised for David (Wear) orTravis (Wear), either one, to go outthere.”

The Wears and Henson haverange that extends beyond the arc.The Wears combine that range with a fundamentally sound face-up game while Henson is oftengoing to the rim in an up-tempostyle that defies his frame.

And Williams did not evenmention explosive guards DexterStrickland and Leslie McDonald who both may have the opportu-nity to spell Marcus Ginyard andLarry Drew II in the backcourt.

The depth of the class is onereason Williams is not the only oneanxious to see the freshmen on the

court.“These guys are very talented,

and I’m just ready to get these guysin practice and start getting themon the same page as everybody else,” Ginyard said. “They’re goingto be an exciting bunch to watchand, hopefully, stick together for along time.”

But Ginyard is not expected to just watch and enjoy the talents of his young teammates. As the old-est player on the team, Ginyard isexpected to lead this young team asthe Tar Heels defend their title.

And the senior had a fine exam-ple to follow on that team in then-senior David Noel.

“David Noel, to this point in my career, is the best leader I’ve ever been around,” Williams said.

“The freshmen just bought

into everything David Noel said. Whatever he said was good. Noquestion, no second thoughts.”

Williams believes Ginyard andThompson will be up to the chal-lenge even if they are not Noel.

“This is my favorite time of year whether it’s a veteran team or what-

ever,” Williams said. “As coaches weget to teach and the players get anopportunity to learn, and it’s theirclassroom and that really is a funpart.”

Whether he will have as muchfun as he did with the freshmen in2006 — only time will tell.

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It was supposed to be the big game of the 2008-09 NorthCarolina women’s basketballschedule.

In the preseason, the story ran inthe last basketball preview section:UNC vs. Connecticut.

The powerhouse Huskies werecoming to the Smith Center totake on North Carolina, the pro-gram that hadn’t lost an ACCTournament game in four years.

And as the game inched closer,the hype built.

UNC sat at 17-0, ranked No. 2in the nation. UConn was 17-0 as well and brought the No. 1 overallranking into the game.

And if there was any doubt as tothe Huskies’ dominance before thegame, there sure wasn’t any afterUConn’s epic thrashing of the TarHeels, 88-58.

“They came into our house andshowed us how to play,” coach SylviaHatchell said after the game.

After that game, UNC’s season went quickly downhill. The Tar

Heels lost the next two games atGeorgia Tech and at Maryland, and bowed out in just the second roundof the NCAA Tournament.

After going undefeated throughthe first half of its season, UNCfinished the final 18 games with an11-7 record.

“We didn’t get the leadership,”Hatchell said.

“As times got tougher, our lead-ership didn’t get tougher and stepup, and I was disappointed in that.Usually, as we get closer to tourna-ment time, we’re a better team. Wealways do well tournament time, but I was disappointed in some of our losses.”

And this season, UNC again will face Connecticut — this timein Storrs, Conn. — at the start of January, in a matchup that coulddefine its season.

A chance for a season-longredemption with a young NorthCarolina team is exactly whatHatchell wants.

UNC will be facing loweredexpectations after its two leadingscorers from last year’s team either

graduated (Rashanda McCants) or will miss most of the season recov-ering from Hodgkin’s lymphoma(Jessica Breland).

But as a whole, North Carolina will have a to find its place in theshifting landscape of the ACC.

The once-dominant big threeof Duke, UNC and Maryland alllost substantial contributors, andupstart Florida State carved outits spot, finishing second overalllast season.

“In the past i t ’s been us ,Maryland and Duke, and a little bitof a gap there,” Hatchell said.

“Last year, Florida State andGeorgia Tech closed that gap, butthis year, there is no gap. And I justdon’t think there’s much distance between any of the teams.”

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North Carolina may not be the best team in the nation this year, but it will be one of the tallest.

The Tar Heels’ towering front-court has an average height of alittle more than 6-foot-10.

To accommodate the loss of forward Tyler Hansbrough and forward/guard Danny Green, UNChas brought in a trio of forwardsto add to returning players DeonThompson, Tyler Zeller and EdDavis.

“We sat here last year, and half of the questions were, ‘How are yougoing to make everybody happy because of all the players?’ And weneeded every single one of them,”coach Roy Williams said.

“I told you I didn’t mind havingall of those players, and I wouldmuch rather have too many thannot enough.”

Depth is not an issue for UNC’sfrontcourt this season. Joining thereturners is a talented group of freshman headed by John Henson,a top-five prospect according tomany scouting sites. AlongsideHenson are the 6-foot-10 twin tow-ers David and Travis Wear.

Henson will likely start at smallforward, and at 6-foot-10, he’s amatchup problem for any team.Both Henson and the Wear twinshave a variety of skills — some of

which extend to the perimeter. Allthree have the ability to play smallforward, and it’s likely all three will.

“The big key is who can slidetheir feet defensively to guard the6-foot-6-inch, 6-foot-7-inch guy onthe other team,” Williams said. “Ithink all three of those kids poten-tially could do it offensively, but who can play it on the defensiveend?”

Many questions surround theabundance of new faces this year, but the freshmen are just a portionof the UNC frontcourt nucleus.

In the absence of Hansbrough,Thompson, Davis and Zeller willanchor the paint.

Zeller, a 7-foot sophomore,scored 18 points in his first gamelast season before injuring himself in the following game.

“Ty Zeller gets up and down thecourt,” Thompson said. “Those longlegs, and he uses his little baby hookthat’s so quick to score the basket.”

Thompson, the 6-foot-9 seniorpower forward, emerged last yearduring Hansbrough’s injury asa double threat, and many willexpect the same from him for the whole season this year.

He is also likely to take a leader-ship role this year alongside fellowsenior Marcus Ginyard.

Thompson averaged 10.6 pointsper game while shooting slight-

ly less than 50 percent. But inHansbrough’s absence, he scored16.8 points per game and made60 percent of his shots. He alsoraised his rebounding total from5.7 rebounds per game to 6.8 withHansbrough out of the game.

Also returning is 6-foot-10 soph-omore Davis, the swat-team captain who passed up a potential top-fivepick in the NBA draft to return.

Davis’ long arms and reachenabled him to lead the team with65 blocked shots last season, andhis role should increase this yearas a starter.

UNC may not have a nationalplayer of the year on its team this year, but there will be no lack of tal-ent in the frontcourt.

Although it’s unclear who willtake the reins as the leader inUNC’s frontcourt, the team willcertainly have quite a few options.

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Back in May, Larry Drew IIreturned to California for the off season. After only a week, his father,Larry Drew, took Drew II to dinnerat a nearby T.G.I. Friday’s. Duringthe meal, the elder Drew left and went to the car. When he returned,he wasn’t empty-handed.

“He came back with a folder anddropped it on the table,” Drew IIsaid. “It was like, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,Saturday. It was like everythingthat I would do all day, he just hada schedule. He basically had it allplanned before I even got there.”

Drew didn’t have a lengthy moti- vational speech planned out for hisson, though. He simply said, “Thisis what you’re doing this summer.Get committed.”

And committed Drew II was. After arriving in Chapel Hill in

2008 as a heralded high schoolrecruit and a fairly prolific three-point shooter, Drew underwent arocky freshman campaign. He scoredonly 1.4 points each contest. His fieldgoal percentage was 35 percent, andhis percentage from long range wasmuch worse: a dismal 23 percent.

Drew II recognized this fact andentered the summer ready to changethe perceptions about his jumper.

Under his dad’s workout plan, thenow-sophomore woke up every day at 6 a.m. He’d shoot for two hoursand then do some conditioning. After lunch, it was back to shooting.

“A lot of the stuff that we did actu-ally was close-range,” Drew II said.“Working on my form, trying to getmy touch right. All my mechanics were OK close to the basket.”

By the end of the day, Drew II would usually hoist close to 1,000shots — a workout that hasn’t goneunnoticed by his teammates.

During the team’s media day,forward Tyler Zeller acknowledgedhow well Drew II has been shoot-ing in pickup games.

“Last year, I didn’t feel like hehad the greatest co nfidence level,”Zeller said. “(Now) he doesn’t ques-tion what he’s doing. He just goesand makes a move right away.”

North Carolina coach Roy Williams will certainly hope this isthe case. After losing his two back-court starters in Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington to the NBA draft,the Tar Heels’ current crop of guards brings an aura of uncertainty.

Drew II will likely be the open-ing-game starter at point guard but

not much else is known. Redshirtsenior Marcus Ginyard is a lock-down defender but has never beenknown as a go-to scorer at UNC.

Still, much like Drew II, suchperceptions didn’t stop Ginyardfrom tailoring his offseason towarda specific part of his game.

“Definitely more shots, moreshots, more shots. More shots, noquestion,” he said.

Redshirt junior Will Gravesreturns, after being suspended for alarge portion of last season. Graves brings a sweet stroke from deepand could be the team’s best chanceat outside scoring. But he averagedonly 11.2 minutes last year and hasnever been an established scorer inthe UNC rotation.

And there are the two freshmanguards, Dexter Strickland andLeslie McDonald. Both are highly acclaimed, but they are freshman. Williams probably won’t heavily rely on the pair at first.

“If you’re not patient, you’re only cutting your own throat,” Williamssaid. “I don’t mind the uncertainty as long as the guy that does startplays really well.”

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A timeline worthy of 100 years of basketball

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In The Daily Tar Heel’s editor’smeeting before the start of the school year, I made a huge

mistake. When my bosses asked the

desk editors for our desk’s majorissues for the year, I spoke up.

“It’s the 100th season of basketball at UNC,” I said.

Everybody in the room agreedthat was, in fact, a pretty big deal.

Unfortunately, that meant thatthe next question was “What are you gonna do for it?”

I blacked out for the next partand don’t remember my exactresponse, but two weeks later the bosses came to me and said we were going to do a timeline docu-menting all 100 years of UNC basketball.

You know, since we’re journal-ists and stuff, we like to occa-sionally document importanthistories and take a look at the big picture.

Most of the time reporting isremarkably dull — stories thatlooked juicy turn to naught, andthe ones that do turn out don’tever really come together the way a writer’s mind envisions it.

Endless hours of researchand looking through old recordsfeels like wading through molas-ses. You never seem to actually get anywhere, just more boggeddown.

But not so with the history of

basketball at UNC.Imagine the same history that

epic movies like “The CuriousCase of Benjamin Button” or“Forrest Gump” encompass —except with basketball.

There’s two world wars, theCivil Rights movement, racism,equality, guys in shinguards,guys with short shorts, guys with baggy shorts and a seriesof coaches with decreasingamounts of hair product as the years pass.

There’s UNC’s only majorNCAA sanction, national titles,moments of triumph and heart- break, great teams, crappy teams.

It’s reflective of our nationalhistory, and even more so, the his-tory of this University — and as aresult, completely fascinating.

That type of history makesreporting easy. Every page issomething cool and exciting. Inthis case, we stumbled onto anever-ending gold mine of oldimages, great moments, fantastic

stories and legendary players.It started in 1910, when a stu-

dent named Marvin Rich lobbiedfor an official team in this newsport, a fad that was sweeping thenation called “Basket-ball.” Andnow, Roy Williams is coachingthe 100th men’s basketball teamin the history of t he University of North Carolina.

By 3 a.m. last Friday when thetimeline launched, it had bal-looned to contain more than 200photos from a wide variety of sources and about 13,000 wordsof text. When we finished theprint version it was between 350to 400 column inches. To give youa rough idea, this column is justmore than 15 inches.

And yeah, this whole column is,on some level, a giant pat-on-the- back to us. But it’s also more thanthat, it’s a perspective that youcan have as you explore a programthat arguably has had a moreimportant role at North Carolinathan anything else. It certainly is more enduring than anythingsave the University itself.

So take some time to lookthrough the DTH’s timeline(dailytarheel.com/100years) andget a dose of the history of a pro-gram that shaped the face of yourUniversity.

Contact Powell Latimer at [email protected]

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The Maryland Terrapins werethe only team to beat both nation-al championship finalists last sea-son and are returning eight of itstop nine scorers. Fear the Turtle.

After beating three top-10teams last season, the Terps areprimed for a successful regu-lar season and another NCAA Tournament berth.

With the third-winningestcoach in ACC history in Gary Williams, this talented squadcould be as dangerous as any team in the country.

The Terps’ hopes hinge on theplay of ACC Player of t he Year can-didate Greivis Vasquez. Vasquez isthe ACC’s seventh-leading return-ing scorer and is third in assists.

North Carol ina fans may remember Vasquez’s career-best 35points, 11 rebounds and 10 assistsin last year’s victory against the TarHeels.

The 6-foot-6 point guard became only the sixth player in ACC history to lead his team inscoring, rebounding and assistsfor a season.

The Terps addressed their big-gest weakness from a year ago:frontcourt depth. At times lastseason, 6-foot-4 Sean Mosley hadto play in the paint due to the lackof size and skill at the two forwardpositions.

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ers such as Mosley, Eric Hayes, Cliff Tucker and Adrian Bowie improveupon what they did last season, atop-five finish in the ACC seemslikely for the Terps.

After proving how dangerousthey can be at times last season,consistency must be the focus of Vasquez and Co. this year. ThisMaryland team has the talent tocompete with any team in the ACC.No one will want to play theseTerps in March.

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Coach Paul Hewitt and theGeorgia Tech Yellow Jackets lookto reverse their fortunes and forgetabout a 2008-09 basketball seasonthat left them last in the ACC withan overall record of 12-19.

The good news is that GeorgiaTech will be returning several of its starters from last season andhas secured Rivals.com’s No.4ranked recruiting class in thenation.

The Yellow Jackets will not beshort on experience — especially since junior forward Gani Lawaldecided to return to the team afteroriginally declaring for the NBA Draft.

Their inside game is solid withthe return of Lawal and the addi-tion of the top-ranked big manfrom the class of 2009, DerrickFavors.

Favors earned MVP honors at both the McDonald’s All-Americangame and the Jordan Brand Classic.He is one of the most highly rankedand sought-after high school play-ers ever to enroll at Georgia Tech.

Favors has the potential to beone of the best big men in the con-ference and has been predicted by some as the preseason ACC fresh-man of the year.

Depth should not be a problem with the return of fifth-year seniorguard D’Andre Bell, who missed allof last year after undergoing sur-gery to address a spinal issue.

S o p h o m o r e g u a r d I m a nShumpert is also returning. Asa freshman, Shumpert averaged10.6 points per game and shot 31percent from 3-point range whileleading the Yellow Jackets in stealsand assists.

Shumpert will have to step upthis game this year following thedeparture of Lewis Clinch, whoaveraged a team-high 15.5 pointsper game last season.

Georgia Tech won only two ACCgames last year, with surprisinghome wins against Wake Forestand Miami. But that hardly negatesa stretch of 13 games where the Yellow Jackets lost 12.

But Georgia Tech was a toughteam to beat — playing in four

overtime games last year — andcan be expected to be in the tophalf of the ACC this season.

With the apparent talent of this year’s team, Hewitt and the YellowJackets should make the NCAA Tournament after missing out thelast two seasons.

With talented post players as well as guards, Georgia Tech coulddo a complete 180 degrees fromlast season and compete well inthe ACC.

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Since his arrival in 2003, coachOliver Purnell has turned a newpage in Clemson basketball history, but he hopes the best days are stillto come.

The formula that has catapultedthe Tigers into the upper echelonof the ACC and to two straightNCAA tournaments includes astifling full-court press, tough on- ball defense and consistent outsideshooting.

This year, Purnell is looking to build on his recent success by add-ing his strongest recruiting class yet to a strong nucleus of return-ing players.

The star and undisputed leaderof the team is All-ACC forwardTrevor Booker. Booker led theteam last season in three majorcategories including points pergame, rebounds and blockedshots.

Returning with Booker are pointguards Demontez Stitt and Andre

Young, forwards David Potter andTanner Smith and center JeraiGrant.

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Young wil l be frequent ly counted on to spell Stitt, who hasa propensity for getting into foultrouble, as he led the team in per-sonal fouls last season.

Potter and Smith both playedreserve roles last year but will haveto produce more with the gradua-tion of Rivers and the departure of sharpshooter Terrence Oglesby toEurope.

The loss of Rivers and Oglesby also leaves the Tigers without aconsistent outside shooter. Theduo made a combined 161 3-point-ers last year. The next closest player

made just 30. A talented class of incoming

freshman led by McDonald’s All- American Milton Jennings shouldhelp out in that department.

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20 Chay Shegog SO F/C 6’ 5”21 Krista Gross FR G 6’ 0”22 Cetera DeGraffenreid JR G 5’ 6”30 Martina Wood SR F/C 6’ 2”32 Waltiea Rolle FR F/C 6’ 6”33 Laura Broomfield SO F 6’ 1”42 Cierra Robertson-Warren FR F 6’ 4”44 Tierra Ruffin-Pratt FR G 5’ 10”50 Italee Lucas JR G 5’ 8”51 Jessica Breland SR F 6’ 3”H ad Coach: Sylvia HatchellAss s an H ad Coach:Andrew Calder

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DTH FILE PHOTOChay Shegog (20) dedicated herself in the offseason and lost 20pounds in an effort to become quicker and more durable for UNC.

BY megAN WAlSHSTAFF WRITER

While the rest of her teammatesrun suicides and worry about t heir jump shots, senior Jessica Brelandcan only sit and wait.

After five months of chemo-therapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma,she has no idea what to expectout of her senior season for NorthCarolina.

Though always a part of theteam thanks to countless visits and words of encouragement, Brelandhas not practiced since her diagno-sis in May.

And while Breland goes in forher final treatment this week,North Carolina’s top returningscorer and rebounder will needseveral months to recover fromthe disease — if she plays at all thisseason.

Her absence leaves the team’sleadership in the hands of return-ing players and five highly antici-pated freshmen.

“This is a foundation team forthe next few years,” coach SylviaHatchell said. “Even next year wedon’t lose that much, especially if Jessica redshirts. This team can be as good as they want to be.They’ve definitely got the poten-tial.”

A strong 17-0 start in 2008-09turned sour when an 88-58 loss

to No. 1 Connecticut in January broke the team’s chemistry, whichHatchell attributes to faulty lead-ership.

“We lost a lot of confidence, and when we needed our seniors to stepup and be better leaders, we didn’tget the leadership. I was disap-pointed with some of our losses,”she said.

The team went on to finish fourthin the ACC behind Maryland,Florida State and Duke, and lostto Purdue in the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a finalrecord of 28-7.

North Carolina lost a total of six players from the previous sea-son, including starting forward/guard Rashanda McCants, wholed the team with 14.4 points pergame, and starting power forwardIman McFarland.

Despite these losses, Hatchellhas high expectations for the up-and-coming team.

“We’ve got a good nucleus,and we’ve got five outstandingfreshmen. We’ve got some goodsize,” she said.“Everybody’s gotto earn their spot, but we’ve gotsome freshmen that could getsome playing time early on. It just depends on how quickly they adjust.”

J u n i o r g u a r d s C e t e r aDeGraffenreid and Italee Lucas,

who averaged 11.9 and 13.9 pointsper game, respectively, will returnto their starting positions withsharper shooting skills and matu-rity.

Not that Lucas will need tohone those long-range shootingskills too much. As UNC’s mostprolific shooter in 20-2009, shehit 70 3-pointers last seasonand shot nearly 40 percent from behind the arc.

Incoming freshman addi-tions Tierra Ruffin-Pratt from

Alexandria, Va., the No. 2 highschool guard in the country, andCharlotte native and forward wingplayer Krista Gross will add to thedepth of the team’s guard and forward play.

The team’s top defensive play-er from last season, sophomoreShe’la White, will likely earn asubstantial amount of playingtime after an all-around improve-ment in play.

Center Chay Shegog enters hersophomore year with a summer’s

worth of experience playing forthe gold medal-winning 2009USA U19 World ChampionshipTeam and is moving up and downthe court for conditioning abouttwenty pounds lighter and in bet-ter shape.

Her improvements will add tothe success of North Carolina’s young post play, where fresh-men newcomers Waltiea Rolleand Cierra Robertson-Warren areexpected to make their own con-tributions.

With a tough schedule ahead,Hatchell is unsure about what toexpect in the ACC competitively — but she knows what her team will do.

“We’re going to run, fast break,trap, press; we’ll be very up-tempo both on offense and defense,” shesaid.

“With our facilities, the way we play, our talent and conferenceschedule, we’re without a doubt inthe top-five teams in the country.Hopefully even better than that.”

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By the expectations of almostany other college basketball pro-gram, the Duke Blue Devils had anoutstanding season last year.

The team won 30 games, cap-tured a record-tying 17th ACCTournament championship, andadvanced to the Sweet 16 for the10th time in the past 12 years.

But Duke isn’t any ot her college basketball program.

While the Blue Devils’ Sweet16 appearance last season was animprovement over their first- andsecond-round losses the previ-ous two seasons, their eliminationfrom the NCAA Tournament at thehands of Villanova came earlierthan Duke fans expected.

In order to progress further,coach Mike Krzyzewski will needto get strong play from a highly touted freshman class.

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Mason Plumlee is listed at6-foot-10, 230 pounds and isexpected to be the team’s startingcenter.

Plumlee is extremely athleticand possesses strong ball-handlingskills.

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The two will hope to provideother low-post options to comple-ment junior Kyle Singler, who hasgarnered preseason first-team All- America attention.

Singler and Plumlee will be joined down low by combinationof seniors Lance Thomas and BrianZoubek.

In the backcourt, reigning ACCTournament MVP Jon Scheyer,formerly a shooting guard, willtake over at point guard afterGreg Paulus graduated and Elliot Williams transferred to Memphisto be closer t o family.

Junior Nolan Smith will returnto the starting lineup at off guardafter a failed stint at point guardlast season.

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Anywhere else, such a dry spell would be unremarkable.

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Corey RajiJoe TrapaniRakim Sanders

BY EvAn MARLOWSTAFF WRITER

The Boston College basketballteam looks to build off last season’ssuccess after losing only one playerfrom last year’s NCAA tournamentteam.

The Eagles earned a No. 7 seedin the NCAA Tournament andfinished the year with a 22-12record after losing to SouthernCalifornia in the first round of theBig Dance.

They finished tied for fifth in the ACC with a 9-7 conference record, which was highlighted by an 85-78 win at UNC on Jan. 4, handingthe Tar Heels their first loss of the year.

Second-team All-ACC guardTyrese Rice, who led Boston Collegein scoring and assists, is the only missing link from last year’s team.

BC has only one senior, backupcenter Tyler Roche, on this year’steam, but they have experience inseven juniors.

Coach Al Skinner, who is enter-ing his 12th year leading the Eagles,

didn’t sign any freshman recruits tothe team, which has four startersand 11 total lettermen returning.

The biggest issue for BostonCollege will be getting theirreturning players to step up andreplace Rice, who was the clearleader of the team and the focalpoint of its offense.

It will be no easy task to replacehis 16.9 ppg and 5.3 apg, but if theEagles want to head back to theNCAA Tournament, they will needsomeone to pick up the scoring.

Junior forward Joe Trapani, who was second on the team with13.4 points per game and led it inrebounding with 6.6 per game, andguard Rakim Sanders, who aver-aged 12.9 points, will return to leadthe offense.

Trapani, who hit 52 3-pointerslast season, stands 6 feet, 8 inchesand can cause matchup problemsfor opposing defenses with hisshooting range.

Juniors Corey Raji and JoshSouthern, who also started lastseason, will lead the frontcourt

that will also rotate in lone seniorRoche. The biggest question forthe team is who will step in atthe point in the spot vacated by Rice.

Sophomore Reggie Jacksonand junior Biko Paris played wellenough in a limited role last sea-son, but for Boston College to suc-ceed this year one of the two willhave to step up to run the team.

If the returning players are ableto step up in a big way the Eagles will have a shot to return to theNCAA Tournament.

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DTH FILE PHOTOThe Wolfpack will need a boost in offensive production from TracySmith and Javier Gonzalez (10) after graduating its top three scorers.

N.C. STATERECORD ‘08-’09 16-14ACC RECORD 6-10HEAD COACHSidney LoweSTADIUM

RBC CenterPLAYERS TO WATCH

Tracy SmithJavier GonzalezJordan Vandenberg

BY JOnATHAn JOnESASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

North Carolina isn’t the only university celebrating their 100thseason of basketball. N.C. Statekicks off its milestone season Nov.12 against Georgia State withpositions to fill and coach Sidney Lowe’s seat getting warm.

In his fourth year at the helm,Lowe finally has control over histeam with the graduation of almostall Herb Sendek’s recruits.

The Wolfpack lacks senior lead-ership, with Farnold Degand andDennis Horner as the lone elders,and boasts a five-player freshmanclass, including 7-foot-1 Australiancenter Jordan Vandenberg.

Lowe was hoping his freshmanclass would be one player larger, but Lorenzo Brown did not qual-ify academically. Ranked No. 37in his class by Rivals.com, Brown

is attending Hargrave Military Academy this year with hopes of joining N.C. State in the 2010-11season.

Noticeably gone from N.C.State’s starting lineup are BrandonCostner, Ben McCauley andCourtney Fells. The trio combined for half of the Wolfpack’soffensive production last season.Costner had a team-high 13.3points per game and chipped insix rebounds.

McCauley started all 30 gamesfor the Wolfpack and led the team with nearly eight rebounds pergame. Fells tied McCauley with 28steals on the season for most on the team while adding 11.3 points per

game.Junior forward Tracy Smith

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team, with 10 points per game and4.5 rebounds.Sharpshooter Javier Gonzalez

and his team-leading 72 assistsreturn. Gonzalez, a junior guard,played in just 22 games last yearand averaged 6.6 points per game with a .429 average from 3-pointrange.

When the Wolfpack traveledto the Smith Center on Feb. 18,Gonzalez led his squad with 18points in the 89-80 loss to the TarHeels.

N.C. State went an abysmal 6-10in ACC play but had a 9-1 record

at home in out-of-conference play.The Wolfpack’s schedule this yearis conducive to replication as they play the likes of Elon, GeorgiaSouthern and Winthrop at the

RBC Center with their toughestmatchup coming Jan. 3 againstFlorida.

Lowe has yet to bring muchsuccess to Raleigh since he playedpoint guard for the Wolfpack intheir 1983 national championship year. He has accumulated a 51-46record during his three years atN.C. State.

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VIRGINIA TECHRECORD ‘08-’09 19-15ACC RECORD 7-9HEAD COACH

Seth GreenbergSTADIUM

Cassell ColiseumPLAYERS TO WATCH

J.T. ThompsonMalcolm DelaneyJeff Allen

BY AnDY RIvESSTAFF WrITEr

Each of the past two seasons, Virginia Tech has seen its ACCTournament run end at thehands of North Carolina. Whatfollowed were two consecutive berths in the National InvitationTournament — just short of theHokies’ goal.

The NIT is little consolationfor a team that just missed out onan NCAA Tournament bid, andthe goal of the Hokies’ 2009-10campaign is to prevent that dis-appointment from happening fora third time.

Va. Tech will have to accom-plish this task without graduatedswingman A.D. Vassallo, who ledthe team in scoring as a junior andas a senior. He notched 19.1 pointsper game last year.

But the Hokies return the nextfour top scorers from 2008-09, acore group of four juniors who willlead the team.

Guard Malcolm Delaney is theapparent heir to t he team’s scoringcrown.

The Baltimore, Md., native putup numbers very comparable to Vassallo’s last year, including 18.1points per game.

Va. Tech’s other key contribu-tor hails from nearby Washington,D.C. Forward Jeff Allen, who ledthe Hokies in rebounds, blocksand steals last year, in addition tologging a third-best 13.7 points pergame.

Rounding out Va. Tech’s expe-rienced core are forward J.T.Thompson and guard DorenzoHudson, a high school teammateof Allen’s.

If the Hokies manage to puttogether a winning conferencerecord and a berth in the NCAA Tournament, they will begin toestablish themselves as a programin the top half of the ACC.

Last year the Hokies finished19-15 overall and tied for seventh inthe conference with a 7-9 record.

Five years after defecting fromthe Big East, Va. Tech is 38-42in the ACC. The program has

shown flashes of the potential to be NCAA Tournament mainstays but has been unable to procure aspot in the tournament in recent years.

This year will be an impor-tant one for the Hokies as they fight to earn their second NCAA Tournament bid since 2004 andprove that they can compete in the ACC.

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Tony BennettSTADIUM

John Paul Jones ArenaPLAYERS TO WATCH

Sylven LandesbergCalvin BakerMike Scott

BY MEgAn WALSHSTAFF WrITEr

The Virginia basketball teamis hoping a fresh frame of mindunder the direction of two new

coaches will help rebuild its strug-gling program this season.New head coach Tony Bennett

will make his debut in the ACCafter coaching for three seasonsat Washington State. He led theCougars to two NCAA tourna-ments, one NIT appearance and was named the 2007 AssociatedPress college basketball coach of the year.

Bennett, who takes over for for-mer coach Dave Leitao is going back to the basics with Virginia,focusing on one-on-one defenseand solid fundamentals to slowly build the program’s respectability and power.

Ritchie McKay will join Bennettas the team’s new assistant coachafter stepping down from his posi-tion as head coach at Liberty.

The Cavaliers finished last sea-son with an overall record of 10-18

and were 11th in the ACC with a4-12 record. They failed to qualify for the NCAA Tournament or theNIT after losing to Boston Collegein the first round of the ACC

Tournament.UVa. lost only two players, cen-ter Tunji Soroye and wing MamadiDiane. The duo combined last yearfor an average of 7.8 points pergame. All of the team’s starters andleading scorers will be returning toplay for the Cavaliers.

Standout sophomore guardSylven Landesberg, who averaged ateam-leading 16.6 points per gamelast season, was named the 2009 ACC Freshman of the Year andremains the team’s main threat.

Junior forward Mike Scott andsenior guard Calvin Baker followLandesberg in scoring, with aver-ages of 10.3 and 8.4 points, respec-tively. Still, neither has steppedinto major leadership roles on theteam thus far. Baker will return toplaying after recovering from two

offseason surgeries for his foot andknee.

Three freshmen additions,Jontel Evans, Tristan Spurlock andThomas Kody, round out the team’sroster.

Virginia’s program is undergo-ing a major transition this season,as Bennett and McKay look toreshape its foundations, pick upa top recruiting class and slowly

climb their way up the ACC’s com-petitive ladder.

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BY ZACk TYMAnSTAff WriTer

Miami heads into the 2009-10season hoping its team will stepup and overcome key roster losses. Year after year, the Hurricanesmanage to hang around the topteams in the ACC.

And after going 19-13 (7-9 ACC),the Hurricanes — under coachFrank Haith — earned a trip to theNational Invitational Tournament, where they lost to Florida in thesecond round.

Miami lost forward Jimmy Graham, guard Lance Hurdle,forward Brian Asbury and All- ACC guard Jack McClinton tograduation.

Three of them were start-ers, leaving a huge void on theroster. The Hurricanes’ losses would have been more painfulhad Dwayne Collins stayed in the

2009 NBA Draft, but he pulledout and returned to school aftergarnering little attention frompro scouts.

M c C l i n t o n r e c e i v e d t h eHurricanes’ first All-ACC nod inschool history during the 2007-08 season. He also finished as the ACC’s career leader in 3-point fieldgoal percentage with .446 and sec-ond at the stripe with .893.

Miami countered its losses withthe No. 24 recruiting class, accord-ing to ESPN.com.

That class includes Rivals.com’sNo. 33 overall recruit, DurandScott. He will attempt to fill the void left by McClinton and couldearn himself a starting job by sea-

son’s end. Additionally, Villanova sopho-

more transfer Malcolm Grant will be in his first year of eligibility aftertransferring in 2008.

He will most likely begin theseason as the starting point guard. Another sophomore — DeQuan

Jones — has tremendous athleticskills and is expected to producefrom the shooting guard positionafter playing in every game duringhis freshman year.

But he’ll probably go through a bit of an adjustment period afterplaying only 11 minutes per gamelast season.

Miami has some athletic talent.It also has some solid young play-ers in its 2009 recruiting class as well as its sophomores. Still, that would leave the Hurricanes a step behind last year, considering thedeparture of key seniors.

As for this season, Miami couldhang with the top teams in the ACC.

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The last thing the North Carolinamen’s basketball team wants thisseason is a rehash of last year’s ACC Tournament shocker, whenthe soon-to-be national champi-ons fell from grace at the hands of Florida State.

But if the Seminoles’ drastically improved performance continuesthis season, the Tar Heels may havea reason to fear the spear.

Florida State, traditionally notknown for its stellar basketballprogram, went to the finals of the ACC Tournament last year for thefirst time in school history afterupsetting UNC 73-70.

The Seminoles lost the tourna-ment title to Duke, but their tour-

nament performance — coupled with only 10 regular-season losses— sent them straight to the NCAA Tournament for the first time sincethe 1997-1998 season.

The Seminoles lost in the firstround of tournament play, butended the season with a 25-10record and finished 10-6 in ACCplay (fourth in the ACC).

The 2008-09 ACC Coach of the Year, Leonard Hamilton, will be looking forward to continuedsuccess from his team again thisseason. With sophomore Solomon Alabi on the roster, the Seminolescould likely achieve that andmore.

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Dona d l. Tucker CenterPLAYERS TO WATCH

Derwin KitchenSo oman A abiChris Sing eton

center averaged 2.1 blocks pergame — good for tops in the ACC.

When the Seminoles downedUNC in the second round of the ACC tournament, Alabi was acritical factor. The freshman reg-istered two blocks and contestedseemingly every shot UNC put upin the lane.

In that game, Alabi also dropped11 points on 5-of-9 shooting —good for second on the team along with Derwin Kitchen.

Alabi was also the only freshmannamed to the ACC All-Defensiveteam.

In August, Alabi was nameda pre-season nominee for the Wooden All-American team andNational Player of the year award.

Alabi was second in points per

game (8.4) behind Toney Douglas(21.5) last season, but led the teamin rebounds, blocked shots andfield goal percentage.

The Seminoles will lose only twostarters, but coping with the lossof last season’s ACC leading scorerDouglas may prove to be an uphill battle.

With only one senior on thisseason’s roster, the Seminoles willdepend largely on a young start-ing lineup to carry them through atough conference schedule.

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The Wake Forest DemonDeacons enter the 2009-10 bas-ketball season looking to repeatthe success that they experiencedlast season.

While the Demon Deacons willmost likely not find themselves No.1 in the nation, as they briefly didlast year, they will look to make

another appearance in the NCAA Tournament.It wil l be somewhat of a

rebuilding season for the DemonDeacons as they return withouttheir two leading scorers fromlast season, Jeff Teague andJames Johnson, who both left forthe NBA.

Although they lost those twomarquee players, Wake Foresthas one of the deepest benchesin the ACC, which it will dependon in order to continue contend-ing with local basketball power-houses.

The player to watch this seasonfor Wake Forest is sophomore forward Al-Farouq Aminu. He entersthe season selected as a preseasonsecond-team All-America by FoxSports.com.

This year, he will look toimprove on his very impressivefreshman season, when he aver-aged 12.9 points and 8.2 reboundsper game.

Aminu was considered by many a lottery selection, but he endedany draft speculation by announc-ing a return to Winston-Salem.

And after an extremely successfulhigh school career, it appears that Aminu will make good on all theexpectations that accompanied himduring his freshman campaign.

Another prominent playerreturning for the Demon Deaconsis senior center Chas McFarland. Although McFarland isn’t as strongof an all-around player as Aminu,he is a consistent low-post scorerand rebounder who will help pulldefenses off Aminu.

Rounding out the project-ed starting five is senior guardIshmael Smith, returning startingguard L.D. Williams and freshmanforward Ari Stewart.

The main weakness for theDemon Deacons this season will be outside shooting. The reservesand newcomers will have to stepup in order to prevent Wake Forestfrom becoming a one-dimensionalteam.

This season, Wake Forest facesa difficult nonconference schedule,going up against Purdue, Gonzagaand Xavier.

But if Wake Forest can win afew nonconference games andpost a winning record in the ACC,it can expect to reach the NCAA Tournament again.

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I n case you forgot, let me bring you up to speed on a fewthings.

No, North Carolina doesn’thave anyone who is likely to breakUNC’s all-time scoring record.

No, the Tar Heels don’t have a virtually unstoppable point guardto run the attack.

But that’s the excitement.Instead of expecting to win

every game — by 20 — this year’steam may drop a game to anunderwhelming opponent or two.

When the Tar Heels of yester- year lost, it was almost embar-rassing to their fans. “They haveall this talent, and they still lost toGreivis Vasquez?”

This year, expectations are off.The fans haven’t even bought alltheir 2009 national champion-ship gear yet. They’re still baskingin last year’s championship win —especially when you factor in allthe talent that was lost out of thatchampionship team.

I know what you are thinkingright now: ‘Did Louie just steal acolumn off the 2006 basketballpreview and rerun it under hisname?’

No. I didn’t. I don’t even knowif the 2006 preview had a columnin it.

At any rate, on this, the 100thedition of men’s basketball, that’snot even the team who most close-ly correlates to this year’s squad.

After 2005, Tar Heel fans were staring down a season of unknown freshmen mixed withDavid Noel, Quentin Thomas, Wes Miller and Reyshawn Terry.

While this opened the door forTyler Hansbrough to get a greatstart on Phil Ford’s career scoringrecord, it wasn’t great for ol’ Roy’schances of contending for theNCAA championship.

It sounds simple, but returningplayers are the currency of coaches.They pass along the lessons of seasons past to the freshmen, and

provide another perspective for thefreshmen to listen to.

If I had to compare this year’steam to a previous UNC team, it wouldn’t be that 2006 team. It would be the 1993-1994 team.

While they lost the heart andsoul of the national champion-ship team in George Lynch, they still had quite a few contributorsto their national championshipsquad, along with a ridiculously strong freshman class.

They returned Derrick Phelps,Donald Williams, and EricMontross, among many others.

But you’ve probably heardof those freshmen: Rasheed Wallace, Jeff McInnis, and Jerry

Stackhouse.For reference, that talented 1994

team swept Duke, won the ACCtournament and secured a No. 1seed before falling in the secondround of the NCAA tournament.

What does that all mean forUNC’s 2009-10 edition?

Between Marcus Ginyard,Tyler Zeller, and Ed Davis, thereis a reasonably solid contingentof returners, and when those arepaired with the highly toutedfreshmen, they should have thetalent to beat anyone.

But with the inconsistency topotentially lose to anyone andeveryone.

That is called “talent withoutthe expectations.” And that,ladies and gentlemen, is as funas it gets.

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