The Daily Tar Heel Basketball Preview 2008-09

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UNC Men SEASON PREVIEW The UNC men will look to

add on last year’s success with a few new faces.

DANNY GREEN is looking forward to making the most of his starting time this season.

INJURIES Preseason injuries to starters Marcus Ginyard and Tyler Hansbrough will mean other UNC players have to step up, especially on defense.

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SENIORS For the five Tar Heel seniors, this year is their last chance to fulfill their goals.

FRESHMEN The four freshmen coming in to

North Carolina this year will provide key depth to what will be a talented UNC bench.

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UnC WOMEN SEASON PREVIEW The women’s team will

look to pick up the pace with its new lineup this year.

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CETERA DEGRAFFENREID will keep her starting point guard slot after excelling last year.

REPLACING GRADS The Tar Heels will look to replace graduated LaToya Pringle and Erlana Larkins, the faces of the program last year.

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2008-09 MEN’s Basketball Schedule Date Time Opponent Tv

By Rachel Ullrich Sports Editor

Most of the North Carolina basketball team won’t tell you straight up.

“My decision wasn’t just based around, you know, winning a national championship,” Tyler Hansbrough said. “Not necessarily.”

“I’ll take a great year and a great run and playing every single day and enjoying my life,” coach Roy Williams said.

“It’s going to be a long grind, but we’ve just got to go day by day, game by game and take care of business,” Deon Thompson added.

But junior point guard Ty Lawson will.

“We have a better chance of winning national championship this year, when everybody came back. So that’s the one thing I’m looking forward to.”

After Lawson, Danny Green and Wayne Ellington joined Hansbrough, last year’s National Player of the Year, in announcing a return to Chapel Hill, expectations for the Tar Heels grew.

So, too, did the red circle around the UNC game on opponents’ calendars.

“I like having the target on our back,” Williams said. “I think it makes us play to a higher standard each and every day, concentrate to a higher standard, can’t take any days off.

“I’ve said many times, if everybody’s saying you’re gonna be pretty good, you’ve probably got a chance to be pretty good.”

But the Tar Heels have a chance to be more than pretty good.

Returning all five of last year’s starters and bringing in a group of four high school all-stars will do that to a program.

North Carolina’s depth was considered one of its biggest strengths last year, and this season it will increase with the addition of the new guys — or, as Williams calls them, “those young rascals.”

And these Tar Heels won’t have any baptism by fire but will have a chance to adapt to the college game at a comfortable pace.

When Thompson and his class came into the program in 2006, only five upperclassmen were on the roster.

“With us now being juniors, it just gives (this year’s freshmen) time to grow into things and not have a heavy expectations or burden on them to play and do great things as soon as they get here.”

Though injuries to UNC starters might put the freshmen on the court earlier than they expected, the fact remains that they have plenty of older leadership set to help ease their adjustment to the collegiate game.

And the players here last year

Sat. Nov. 15

4 p.m.

vs. Penn

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Tue. Nov. 18

9 p.m.

vs. Kentucky

ESPN

Fri. Nov. 21

10 p.m. vs. UC-Santa Barbara

ESPNU

Mon. Nov. 24 9:30 p.m. vs. Chaminade (Maui)

ESPNU

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vs. Oregon/Alabama

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Wed. Nov. 26 TBA

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9:15 p.m. vs. Mich. State (Detroit) ESPN

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6 p.m.

7 p.m.

vs. Oral Roberts vs. Evansville

Sat. Dec. 20

2 p.m.

at Valparaiso (Chicago) ESPNU

ESPN2 ESPN

Sun. Dec. 28 7:45 p.m. vs. Rutgers

FoxNet

Wed. Dec. 31 10 p.m. at Nevada

ESPN2

Sun. Jan. 4

5:30 p.m. vs. Boston College

FoxNet

Wed. Jan. 7

9 p.m.

vs. Charleston

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8 p.m.

at Wake Forest

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Thu. Jan. 15

9 p.m.

at Virgnia

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Sat. Jan. 17

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vs. Miami

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Wed. Jan. 21 9 p.m.

vs Clemson

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Wed. Jan. 28 9 p.m.

at Florida State

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Sat. Jan. 31

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Marcus Ginyard and the Tar Heels made it to the Final Four last year before falling to Kansas. After every senior and all five starters decided to return, North Carolina is looking forward to another long run this season. have a pretty bad taste in their mouths. “ I k n o w w e p l ay e d b a d ,” Hansbrough said of last year’s game against Kansas. “I don’t need to watch a videotape to realize we really played bad.

“I mean, I understand how badly we came out there and played, and I don’t need that re-emphasized.”

After a shocking loss in what Williams called “the most unreal basketball game” he’d ever experienced, the Tar Heels had six long months to wait for this season to start.

And now it has.

“We still have that anger, still have that hurt, that we want to get out,” Ellington said.

It’s a long time until March, but that doesn’t mean UNC can’t get started early, he added.

“It’s going to be business-like, it’s going to take a lot of work, but at the same time — we’re going to enjoy ourselves.”

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Russell Robinson helped Kansas hold off UNC’s rally to beat the Tar Heels in the Final Four, 84-66. Kansas went on to win the national championship.

2008-09 Men’s Basketball Roster No. Player Year 1 Marcus Ginyard SR 2 Marc Campbell R-JR 4 Bobby Frasor SR 5 Ty Lawson JR 11 Larry Drew II FR 13 Will Graves R-SO 14 Danny Green SR 15 J.B. Tanner SR 21 Deon Thompson JR 22 Wayne Ellington JR 24 Justin Watts FR 30 Jack Wooten SR 32 Ed Davis FR 35 Patrick Moody SR 40 Mike Copeland SR 44 Tyler Zeller FR 50 Tyler Hansbrough SR Head Coach: Roy Williams Assistant Coach: Joe Holladay

Pos. Height G/F 6’ 5” G 5’11” G 6’ 3” G 5’11” G 6’ 1” F/G 6’ 6” F/G 6’ 6” G 6’ 0” F 6’ 8” G 6’ 4” G 6’ 4” G 6’ 2” F 6’10” F 6’ 4” F 6’ 7” F 7’ 0” F 6’ 9”

Assistant Coach: Steve Robinson Assistant Coach: Jerod Haase

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Sun. Feb. 15 3 p.m.

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Assistant Sports Editor

For anyone who watched the North Carolina women’s basketball team last year and thought, “Dad-gummit! Why don’t these girls pick up the pace?” — you’re in luck.

That’s just what last year’s NCAA leaders in points per game intend to do this season.

After losing post mainstays Erlana L arkins and L aToya Pringle to graduation — both were drafted in the first round of the WNBA Draft — UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell has been experimenting with small lineups, sometimes employing three or even four guards.

That kind of lineup could help the Tar Heels improve on last season’s already-astronomical 86.3 point average.

“We could actually put four of the quickest guards you could ever see in your life in women’s basketball out on the court,” Hatchell said.

Put those four guards — freshman She’la White, sophomores Cetera DeGraffenreid and Italee Lucas and senior Alex Miller — together with senior Rashanda McCants, who is a post with wing experience, and UNC’s offense could reach a whole new level of speed.

Lucas seemed intrigued by the possibilities of the one guardheavy lineup the Tar Heels have tried in practice, saying: “It was something different. We were quick.”

Though being quick isn’t that different for UNC, the newcomer White, a McDonald’s AllAmerican and two-time Virginia state Player of the Year, adds a gear that Hatchell said has not even been reached by speeddemon DeGraffenreid — the Tar Heels’ only exclusive point guard this season.

That is not to say that the Tar Heels won’t have their fare share of bruisers down low. Though Larkins’ and Pringle’s absence will be evident, a host of experienced front-liners — McCants, Iman McFarland, Jessica Breland and Martina Wood — will do their best to fill those shoes.

McCants, a newcomer to the post, showed Hatchell — and herself — exactly what she can do down low during the team’s trip to Europe in May. There, she showcased a jump hook that prompted Hatchell to compare her to former Tar Heel and member of the Seattle Storm Camille Little.

“She played really well over there. She averaged 28 or 30 points a game,” Hatchell said.

“Before we went, I don’t think she was convinced that moving her to four was the best thing for her.

But after we came back, she was convinced.”

McCants isn’t the only new face in the UNC paint. McDonald’s All-American Chay Shegog, who at 6 feet, 5 inches, is UNC’s tallest player, has been impressive in practice.

“Chay Shegog is gonna be in there just because she’s 6’ 5” and she’s a big body,” Hatchell said.

“She’s picking things up really quick. I think she’s gonna be in there maybe sooner than people think she is.”

In addition to new faces, the Tar Heels will be playing in a new home, the Smith Center, while Carmichael Auditorium is being renovated.

And while Hatchell has said the wow factor of visiting teams coming to the Smith Center will be a bonus, she seems more excited about getting back to a new and improved Carmichael in 2009-10.

“No one else in the country is going to have an arena like that.”

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The North Carolina team achieved many goals last season, including an undefeated ACC season, but the Tar Heels are back for a title this year.

2008-09 WoMen’s Basketball Roster No. Player Year 1 She’la White FR 3 Trinity Bursey JR 4 Candace Wood FR 5 Nicole Powell SO 10 Laura Barry SR 11 Alex Miller SR 14 Heather Claytor SR 20 Chay Shegog FR 21 Iman McFarland SR 22 Cetera DeGraffenreid SO 30 Martina Wood JR 32 Rashanda McCants SR 33 Laura Broomfield FR 50 Italee Lucas SO 51 Jessica Breland JR Head Coach: Sylvia Hatchell Assistant Head Coach: Andrew Calder

Pos. Height G 5’ 5” F 5’10” G 5’11” G 5’10” G 5’ 8” G 5’ 6” G 5’ 8” F/C 6’ 5” F 6’ 3” G 5’ 6” F/C 6’ 2” G/F 6’ 1” F 6’ 1” G 5’ 8” F 6’ 3”

Assistant Coach/Director of Recruiting: Tracey WilliamsJohnson Assistant Coach: Charlotte Smith

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Seniors ready for final bow McCants heads class of 2009

By Jordan Mason

By Powell Latimer

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Assistant Sports Editor

Get your tickets now.

It’s the farewell tour for North Carolina seniors Marcus Ginyard, Danny Green, Bobby Frasor, Mike Copeland and Tyler Hansbrough.

You’re not going to see another show like it.

In an age of college freshmen dribbling with one eye on the court and one eye looking for NBA scouts in the stands, UNC’s senior class instead decided to stay around and play an encore.

Only this time really is the last song.

After three years of playing together, UNC’s entire senior class returned to finish out their careers with together.

“I can’t remember the last time a whole class has come in together at Carolina and left together,” Ginyard said.

More than that, they’ve grown up together. They live together — Ginyard, Frasor and Hansbrough all share a house.

But most importantly, the class of 2009 has been the face of basketball at North Carolina for the past four years.

They have taken the program from underdog to possibly the most favored team since the early ’90s. From their freshman years, when they shocked the ACC by finishing second — after the top seven players from Roy William’s 2005 national championship team all graduated or bolted to the NBA. “It’s been a great run with this group,” Wililams said.

“Bobby, Danny, Marcus, Tyler and Michael have been fantastic for our program.

“And it is fun getting to senior year, getting to the spot that their hard work and play has put them into the position where they can play well.”

For the past three years, the core of Green, Ginyard, Frasor, Hansbrough, and Copeland have seen — and produced — success that would make even the jerseys hanging in the Smith Center rafters take notice.

Success such as 90 wins in the past three years and a 37-11 record

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UNC returns its entire senior class, two of whom start for the Tar Heels.

“I can’t remember the last time that happened,” Marcus Ginyard said. in the ACC. Or even a 4-2 record against Duke, already surpassing the three total wins in the rivalry from 19992005, which includes a national championship team.

No one is more responsible for that success than Hansbrough.

Known as Psycho-T, or more endearingly by Williams, just “the big fellah,” Hansbrough stomped onto the college scene as a freshman and hasn’t moved from center stage since.

His accolades s till sound impressive two years later: only freshman in ACC histor y to receive unanimous first-team All-ACC honors. Only player in UNC history to be named firstteam All-America as a freshman.

His 27-point, 10-rebound performance in his first visit (and win) at Cameron Indoor Stadium wasn’t too bad either.

“I mean, freshman year Tyler could have left, sophomore year Tyler could have left, junior year Tyler’s player of the year, easily could have left,” Frasor said.

But he didn’ t. Ins tead, Hansbrough shirked the calls of the NBA Draft and returned to the Smith Center for one more run — an unusual move for a player of his caliber.

“Just because I enjoy everything about coming back; I enjoy hanging out with my teammates; and I

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Even more unique is the fact that the rest of his class followed him, including Green, who also turned down professional ball.

“Playing with these guys has been great,” Green said. “Growing up with those guys and playing with those guys has really been great. It’s been an honor, really.”

Regardless of whether they end up in the pros, the seniors face their final season.

Even if UNC is playing into April, for these five, the season ends and doesn’t resume after 2009. And each is trying to love every minute of it.

“Just trying to ride the wave, you know?” Ginyard said.

“Just ride as long as you can.

And I’d love to continue to play basketball after I graduate, and you know that’s always been a goal of mine, so I just gotta keep chasing that dream.”

Regardless of the dreams that Ginyard and his classmates have for the future, they already have left an indelible heel-print on the face of the program.

But for the time being, even as their concert winds down, the headlining act for UNC basketball still has a couple more songs to play.

And they’re just riding the wave as long as they can.

The North Carolina women’s basketball team technically lost only two starters to graduation last season.

But the leadership that class brought, particularly from starters LaToya Pringle and Erlana Larkins, will not be replaced with two players.

And that is the challenge facing the senior class this season.

Senior Rashanda McCants believes she and her four classmates are up to that challenge.

“Vocally, we stepped up a lot,” McCants said.

“I think we all realize that this is our time, and vocally we have a lot of power and a lot of experience.”

The Tar Heels will not miss the 28.1 points or 16.7 rebounds per game its senior starters provided last season. Not even the post presence the two forwards supplied on a nightly basis.

Coach Sylvia Hatchell has her way of compensating for all of that — even a four-guard lineup with McCants as the only post player that is certain to run defenses into the floor if nothing else.

But the coach cannot implement leadership the same way she can her high-speed offenses. A senior class with an ACC title and a No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed to show for each of its years at UNC will have to find it within themselves instead.

“They have to. They have to,” Hatchell said. “That’s the biggest thing right now.”

The in-your-face leadership from Larkins will be particularly hard to replace.

“They all get along so well that they don’t want to get on each other to practice because they want to keep that chemistry,” Hatchell said. “They want everybody to like them.”

But the seniors are making a concentrated effort to change that.

Guard Heather Claytor is even trying to implement lessons from her Carolina Leadership Academy.

The Tar Heels will receive a significant lift in leadership from a player who was not even a member of the class this time last year, as well.

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Rashanda McCants leads a talented cast this year, including seniors Iman McFarland and Heather Claytor. Alex Miller also is set to return to play.

Guard Alex Miller returns for a fifth season after being given a medical redshirt for last year when she tore the patellar tendon in her left knee in just the fourth game of the season.

Hatchell admits that Miller has not returned to the form that had her projected as the starting point guard at the beginning of last season.

But the senior said she has improved in her time off.

“When you’re off a year, you learn a lot just listening to the coaching staff and watching the team play and practice,” she said.

“I’m a better leader now.”

But that role will not belong only to Miller — or even leading returning scorer McCants, for that matter.

The class is trying to fill the role collectively. And that has McCants, whom Hatchell described as the “focus player,” happy.

“I do realize that I do have a lot more responsibility,” McCants, the preseason All-ACC selection,

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McCants will have help in filling up the box score, as well. Senior Iman McFarland will help her replace Larkins and Pringle in the post — at least when the Tar Heels are not trying to run opponents out of the gym.

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by Claytor, the fifth-best player in school history in three-point percentage.

This year’s senior class already even one-upped its predecessors in one sense — the Tar Heels enter the season as preseason ACC favorites for the first time in four years.

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Dancing into starter’s role

By Rachel Ullrich Sports Editor

The Tar Heels were on top of the world.

Returning all five starters, two of them seniors.

The world’s deepest bench, including two players who would be starters on any other team in the country.

Let’s face it — they were set.

Then the preseason injury train struck.

With National Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough and UNC’s No. 1 defender Marcus Ginyard out at least for a few weeks, UNC was dealt a rather unexpected blow.

But the thing is — the Tar Heels still don’t see a problem.

“Just like when you look at last year when Ty (Lawson) went down,” junior Deon Thompson said.

“Q (Quentin Thomas) came in, and he played great, and that helped us with him coming off the bench eventually.

“And now that Marcus is going down, someone’s going to have to do it. And it’s probably going to be a team thing with that, and it’s going to help us just as a whole team defensively.”

Hansbrough’s loss will not go beyond the early season, with the possibility of a return for the Tar Heels’ first game, against Penn. on Nov. 15, still open.

Hansbrough has never missed a game in his UNC career, but the stress reaction in his right shin might mean he has to miss a few to open the season.

Ginyard, out until December with a stress fracture in his left foot, is still trying to maintain a presence as a leader on the team even while he can’t be on the court with them.

“You just got to make your presence known. You’ve just got to be around, talking to the guys every chance you get,” he said.

While Ginyard will remain a team leader off the court, Danny Green will pick up the guard’s lost play on it.

And Wayne Ellington said that overall it will make the whole team better defensively.

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Danny Green, who excelled off the bench as last season‘s “sixth starter,” will move to the top five this year in place of injured Marcus Ginyard. the basketball.

It’s one thing to play erratically off the bench it’s entirely different to do so in the opening minutes as a starter.

In that regard, a summer spent working out in front of NBA managers and scouts might have been beneficial to Green’s development as a player.

“I was working on defensively just lateral quickness, staying in front of smaller guards, trying to get stronger, faster of course,” Green said.

“And more consistency on the offensive end, shooting, more consistency on the offensive boards.”

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with Ty Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Hansbrough, he doesn’t necessarily need to score as much as he did when he was coming off the bench.

Just being another cog in the UNC machine is enough.

“I’d like to start, but it doesn’t really matter,” Green says. “I feel like I can adjust, or be effective and help the team. As long as I help the team, that’s OK with me.

“If I can be a factor, that’s what coach said to me last year, ‘You can be a factor to this team.’

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Marcus Ginyard, in a wheelchair at Late Night with Roy, had surgery for a stress fracture in October. He is expected back in December. sive end of the floor, and guys are going to have to step up,” he said.

“Guys are going to have to become better defenders.”

And Ellington hopes to be the player Williams calls on to become the new perimeter guard.

“That’s something that I’ve worked on and that’s something that I’m excited about, to be able to go ahead and guard another team’s best perimeter player,” he said.

“And (coach) wants me to be able to be that guy that stops him, so that’s something that I’m definitely excited about.”

Without Ginyard there to do what Williams called “all the little things,” Williams said Ellington and all of the rest of the UNC squad

will need to step it up a notch.

Last year the defensive stopper played more than 1,000 minutes, good for third on the team in playing time, and notched 175 rebounds and 42 steals.

“You’re losing your best defender,” Williams said. “A guy who gets more cheap baskets, offensive rebounds, steals than anybody on your club.”

But with the talented returners plus four new heralded freshmen on the bench, the coach believes losing a few guys won’t be a problem — not with a squad this deep.

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By david ely For three seasons, Danny Green was as close to being a starter as possible without actually stepping on court for the opening minutes.

The crunch time minutes were his for the taking. He was one of North Carolina’s options when the team needed a big bucket.

Roy Williams himself called Green his “sixth starter” rather than his “sixth man.”

And now that Marcus Ginyard is out for the first couple of months because of a stress fracture in his left foot, Green finally gets his chance to ditch the sideline and take center stage.

“If we had to play a game today, I’d start Danny,” Roy Williams said during the Tar Heels’ media day Oct. 17.

After all, Green is the logical choice to replace Ginyard.

The two seniors play the same position, and whenever Ginyard subbed out last year it was Green who took his place in the lineup.

But now that formula is erased

by Ginyard’s injury, thrusting Green into the starting lineup. Not that it matters to the new starting small forward.

If Green revels in his new opportunity, he isn’t showing it.

“It doesn’t really matter who starts the game. It’s who finishes the game,” Green said.

“Of course I want to be on the floor at the end of the game.”

That’s how it worked throughout North Carolina’s run to the 2008 Final Four. Green came off the bench and his energy provided the offensive and defensive lifts needed to sustain leads or rally from deficits.

He averaged 11.5 points per game last season, and he was the team’s second-best threat from beyond the 3-point arc.

“You guys all know Danny’s a pretty explosive scorer,” Tyler Hansbrough said.

“I think he’s the kind of player that gives us that spark when we need it.”

That offensive game was what made Green one of the top reserves in the nation and a change of pace from the more defensively minded Ginyard.

Added to he starting lineup, Green gives the Tar Heels yet another scorer on the offensive end, another player that can ignite a devastating run with just a couple of plays.

But buried beneath that potential is one of Green’s glaring shortcomings — the inconsistency of his game. One night he’d be electric. Another he’d look tentative or careless.

Green finished second on the team with 74 turnovers, despite playing about nine minutes per game less than Hansbrough, who led the team with 83.

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Guard Cetera DeGraffenreid averaged 11.6 points and 3.1 assists starting at the point last season.

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Cetera DeGraffenreid has made a variety of improvements to her game for her second season at the point for North Carolina.

She worked on her 3-pointer, and her left-hand ball skills are better. But the dimension of her game coach Sylvia Hatchell still has her working on is her voice on the court. “Yesterday in practice, we had a situation where somebody got nailed on a screen because she didn’t talk,� Hatchell said. “I said, ‘If a bear’s chasing you, what are you gonna do?’ She says, ‘I’m gonna run faster.’ I said, ‘But are you not gonna say something?’ She said, ‘Yeah, I would holler out.’ “So I said, ‘You talk on this court like a bear is chasing you. You’ve got to say something.’�

The 5-foot-6-inch guard has almost a full year running the Tar Heels’ offense under her belt, but her coach still has plenty of lessons for DeGraffenreid.

She had to do most of her learning on the court last year after senior guard Alex Miller tore her patellar tendon in just her fourth start and was lost for the season.

After three years as the backup under standout Ivory Latta, 200708 was set to be Miller’s season as the No. 1 point guard. Instead, the job went to DeGraffenreid, who ended up leading the team in minutes.

The situation was as dire as it could be for the freshman, but UNC had no other option. “Last season definitely helped her confidence,� senior Iman McFarland said. “She was thrown in the fire once Alex got injured, and she definitely stepped up. We were very impressed with her leading our team as a point guard.�

DeGraffenreid kept the team running at a high-speed pace and played well enough to keep her role as the top point guard again this season. “I really didn’t have time to sit back,� the sophomore said. “I had to go out there and do it. And this year, you’ve been there, you’ve done that, you know what to expect. You just got to take it and apply it to the court.�

DeGraffenreid, known as ‘T’ by the rest of the Tar Heels, also got some outside tutoring this summer.

On Hatchell’s advice, she attended a five-day basketball camp called Point Guard College along with six of her teammates, where they studied film for a few hours each day and practiced concepts on the court.

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Gule Gule! Shalom! That’s Turkish and Hebrew for goodbye.

North Carolina’s women’s basketball team might want to learn the phrases so they can properly communicate with their two biggest losses of the offseason.

Forward Erlana Larkins and center LaToya Pringle are now playing their basketball in Turkey and Israel, respectively.

And their departure to the WNBA and across the Atlantic Ocean leaves a glaring vacancy in UNC’s frontcourt. “There’s a lot of responsibility now that two of our star players are gone,� senior Rashanda McCants said. “I think we all realize that this is our time, and vocally we have a lot of power and a lot of experience.�

The team must compensate for more than the loss of their leadership.

Larkins and Pringle, both former AP All-Americas, were second and third to McCants in points per game last year. In 2008 alone they combined for 983 points, 583 rebounds, 137 assists, 116 blocks and 116 steals. “They did leave a big gap, a void to fill,� senior Iman McFarland said. “We’ve always had (Larkins) and (Pringle) to look up to, and so now we have to be that one that has to get down there and do some damage. We see it as a challenge to keep up the pace that they’ve always brought.�

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The buzz around practice surrounds newcomer Chay Shegog.

The McDonald’s All-Americanhas been assimilating at a drivethrough pace. “We love her,� McFarland said. “She’s been running the floor. She’s been getting in there and being really physical. She’s a great asset to the post players.�

Breland added: “She’s a beast.

She squares up really well, and it makes it hard for me to block her shot. “The small stuff at the college level, like weak side defense and stuff like that, we have to keep reminding her of doing. Other than that, there’s no way she shouldn’t be starting.�

Rookie Laura Broomfield, the 2007 Southern Maryland Player of the Year, also could contribute at forward.

Wherever they play, Hatchell is confident Broomfield’s class will make its mark on the team. “We’ve got some new kids coming in,� Hatchell said. “Some of them are just getting better and better and making their impact as they become more confident and understand what to do.�

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are poised to make the transition as painless as possible for coach Sylvia Hatchell. “You’ve got the other kids there waiting, and, as that void is there, someone fills and steps in,� Hatchell said. “You don’t always do it with one person. You’ve got to take that and spread it around. Different people fill different roles.�

This means the team will be playing some musical chairs.

It all starts with McCants, who returns to her high school position to fill Pringle’s slot at the power forward.

Tabbed on the watch list for the State Farm Wade Trophy Division I Player of the Year, McCants will use her elite athleticism to attack the basket in a more aggressive role.

Breland also wants to make sure Pringle won’t be sorely missed. She came off the bench to average 10.6 points a game last season, bringing a developed face-up game to the position. “Those could be two of the best (forward) players in the country right there,� Hatchell said.

While Breland and McCants have been in the spotlight, players such as McFarland and Wood have been waiting their turn to step out of the immense shadow cast by their former teammates. “(McFarland) was coming off the bench last year. She played really well and had some really good games,� Hatchell said. “(Wood) is a redshirt player, and she’s a big body. She loves the contact. She’s the one that would give (Larkins) fits in practice all the time.�

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She was 7-of-14 in UNC’s last five games, and with a guard-heavy roster in 2008-09, the long ball will play a more important part in the offense. “It helped a lot last year because before the defenses would play off of me and they’d sag back into Erlana (Larkins) and Latoya (Pringle),� DeGraffenreid said. “I gotta do it for the team, so that’s what I’ve been focusing on, so the defense will know that I’m not just gonna drive or pass it every time — that I will take the shot.�

Hatchell called this year’s team “maybe the best we’ve ever had� at shooting 3-pointers, so that might be where North Carolina turns to make up for the loss of LaToya Pringle and Erlana Larkins inside. “They’re almost shooting it more from the outside than I want them to, but when they’re making it, it’s hard for me to tell them not to shoot it,� Hatchell said.

Last season DeGraffenreid was third on the team with 93 attempts and had a .269 average, but most of her points came from her speed — drives to the lane and fast-break layups — not her shooting.

That quickness again will be the driving force for UNC’s offense, the highest scoring team in the country last year. This season, Hatchell wants her point guard to set an even faster tempo.

DeGraffenreid’s reaction? “I guess we’ll have to see, but she says so, and I believe her.�

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By Mike Ehrlich

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When the 2008 North Carolina basketball team takes the court on opening day, it will look a lot like the 2007 Tar Heels. After all, the top six scorers return to the consensus No. 1 team in the nation.

But it might not take long before some new faces find their ways onto the court. UNC has a raw but talented group of four incoming freshmen who will be difficult to keep off the floor once the season begins.

“They’re very talented,” junior forward Deon Thompson said of the freshman class. “I mean, they’re all McDonald’s All-Americans, except for one, and Justin (Watts), he can definitely play.”

The situation, as UNC coach Roy Williams pointed out, is similar to start of the 2004 season, when the Tar Heels returned all five starters from the year before. But an important piece of the puzzle was added in freshman Marvin Williams.

“The one who came in was pretty doggone good,” Williams said. “You tell me any of those big, young rascals out there is going to be as good as Marvin, I’ll feel a heck of a lot better today.”

This year’s rascals will add to the Tar Heels a lot of length, thanks to 7-foot forward Tyler Zeller and lanky, 6-foot-10-inch forward Ed Davis. Zeller and Davis will be UNC’s first players taller than 6 feet, 9 inches since Damion Grant in the 2004-05 season.

Zeller has a diverse skill set for a 7-footer. Indiana’s Mr. Basketball runs the floor well and can play facing the basket on offense. He’s also demonstrated impressive touch and range shooting the ball from both the field and the stripe.

Zeller lacks some strength necessary to bang on the low block but has added some weight in the preseason.

Davis, named Mr. Basketball himself in his home state of Virginia, is a skinny left-hander who also likes to face the basket.

He developed a reputation in high school as a persistent rebounder and shot-blocker.

“He’s a very long, herky-jerky post player,” Thompson said. “He can really get the job done in the

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Like Davis, 6-foot point guard Larry Drew II is the son of an NBA player. Drew is known for his decision-making and precision passing.

The fourth member of the class is 6-foot-4-inch Durham-native Justin Watts, an athletic and versatile wing player with good presence.

“Our freshmen can come on and play right now,” junior point guard Ty Lawson said. “So we’re going to try to push the tempo, try more on offense, probably just be a little more unselfish.”

On any team with raw, young talent, it is essential to have a cast of experienced upperclassmen to take the lead. With so many returning players, the UNC rookies have had plenty of direction.

“Some of the guys are struggling during conditioning,” senior Marcus Ginyard said. “Just walking up to them, saying a little something in their ear before they have to start running again — the biggest thing is just letting them know that you’re there and you’re there to help them out.”

But sometimes these friendly words are not what a freshman needs. A reality-check is also in order, senior forward Tyler Hansbrough said.

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After a preseason of work and adjustment to the college game, these four freshmen will be ready when UNC hosts Penn on Nov. 15. It might not be long afterward before they’re contributing on the court.

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t’s just before 10 a.m. on Oct.31, and Roy Williams seems at ease with the

world.

He sits upright — almost statuelike — in a jet-black office chair and confidently goes about his business.

He never flinches or relinquishes the upper hand; it’s as if the coach always operates to a game plan.

He’s the coolest character in the room. To put it simply — the man commands attention.

A national championship, three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament and a 142-33 mark at UNC in five seasons gives Williams the right to feel in control.

But the architect of North Carolina’s return to dominance doesn’t let himself think about those stats too often.

He might be content, but by no means does Williams think his work is done.

“I’m comfortable, but I’m not satisfied. Last night at 10 p.m. I was on the phone recruiting. There’s a great possibility I’ll be on the phone recruiting tonight,” he says.

“I don’t think I can operate in a satisfied mode because that’ll make me think that someone else is outworking me, and I don’t want that.”

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t wasn’t easy. Rebuilding a program never is.

When Roy Williams returned as head coach of the Tar Heels on April 14, 2003, the program wasn’t exactly what it was 15 years earlier when he left.

Under Matt Doherty’s reign the program turned off a lot of former players and alumni, and there were rampant rumors of a player mutiny if he remained on staff. Suffice to say, North Carolina suffered from a negative public perception.

That said, the UNC basketball program was not in complete disarray. The cupboard wasn’t bare, and he didn’t hold tryouts for open roster spots. Raymond Felton, Rashad McCants and Sean May had championship potential. It just needed to be tapped.

“It wasn’t completely broke. I want to make sure that everybody knows that I’m not saying that I came in here and fixed a broken program because that’s not what it was. We’d had two tough years, and there had been some unrest.

“There’d been some negative things said, there’d been some negative things used against us in recruiting. And so we had to make sure that we turned those things around,” Williams says.

That was priority No. 1. The basketball success would take care of itself. He was sure of that. Fifteen years of winning at Kansas gave Williams that level of confidence in his system. After all, he already had been in this position.

“The biggest thing to me was that at Kansas I was very confident, but I was also hoping that what I was doing was going to work,” Williams says.

“And when I came back here, I was very confident, but I had a much stronger feeling that it was going to work, just because I had already been a head coach for 15 years.”

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rust was the key. Williams says the players had to buy into his way of doing things. The more quickly they did so, the more quickly the program would find success. And in Williams’ first year, North Carolina’s 86-83 upset of then-No. 1 Connecticut was the moment he found his team believing.

“The last couple of timeouts in that game, I believe they truly did trust what I was telling them,”

Williams says. “And the look that I got from them, their expressions made me feel like they did trust me, and it worked.”

Moments like that, quickly thereafter, snowballed at North Carolina.

The 2005 national championship stands above everything else as the quintessential example, but the season after, when all the signs pointed to a step back, was when UNC cemented itself as one of the few “it” programs in the nation.

“I think when we won the national championship in 2005 that established again that North Carolina is the top level of college basketball,” Williams says.

“And when we turn around in ’06 and have the year where we weren’t even picked to make the tournament and we ended up being a (No. 3 seed) … that established that, ‘Yes, North Carolina is not going away.’”

That’s the definitive season of the Roy Williams Era. Massive roster turnover, uncertainty and yet nearly the same success. The one and only constant between the two years was Williams on the sideline.

The 2006 season showed that he didn’t ride the coattails of Doherty’s recruiting classes and that the program was becoming his own. He wasn’t what he calls “the lucky guy that was in the chair of the head basketball coach at North Carolina” anymore — Williams was in control of his universe.

“I can’t really say enough about coach Williams and the coach that he is and the person that he is,” Marcus Ginyard says.

“There’s no question about it that coach Williams and his staff were, you could say, the X-factor in my decision-making process.”

Would all of that have been possible with another coach? Would all those players — past and present — have elected to sign with North Carolina had Williams remained in

WHAT THE PLAYERS SAY: This program is all his now. It’s his program, everyone’s on the same page as him, he’s doing the things he wants to do, and so he’s gonna continue to do that for as long as he wants to coach here.

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Kansas?

“Maybe. Probably. I mean, maybe,” says Danny Green. “I don’t know, that’s a good question.”

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ow fast-forward to today.

North Carolina is fresh off its most successful four-year run in school history and looks poised to return to the Final Four.

The Tar Heels are the undisputed No. 1 team in the nation in both the AP and ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ Polls. The top six players from last year return, joining a healthy Bobby Frasor and three blue-chip recruits.

Seven years ago, during the height of the Doherty Era, a team like this one seemed a near impossibility. But under Williams, that kind of talent is old hat — the truest sign that he’s put his stamp on the program.

“This program is all his now,” Frasor says. “Everyone’s on the same page as him, he’s doing the things he wants to do, and so he’s gonna continue to do that for as long as he wants to coach here.”

And knowing Williams’ style, he isn’t planning on going anywhere anytime soon. North Carolina basketball is the last thing he thinks about when he goes to bed, and the it’s the first thing that pops into his head the following morning.

This is the man who got up at 6 a.m. two days after winning the national championship to go on a recruiting trip.

He’s addicted to success, and he takes immense pride in what he’s created in just five seasons at North Carolina — college basketball’s new golden standard.

“We are at the top level of college basketball; there are few other teams up there with us,” he says.

“I’m not saying we’re the only one on a certain level, but there’s nobody on a level above us.”

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y l v i a Ha t c h e l l j u s t couldn’t contain herself.

She walked in and took her seat at the front of the room, a broad smile giving away her excitement.

“I walk out here in practice just yesterday, and I’m thinking, ‘Girl, you’re at Noth Carolina,” Hatchell said. “’You’ve got this team, you’ve coached all these years, and how much better can it be, really?’”

“It’s like Christmas every day, especially when you get commitments. It’s like being in a fantasy land.”

And why shouldn’t she be excited?

Hatchell had just gotten a commitment from a recruit that morning, and she was poised to begin a new season with a program that was finally getting its due.

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or four years in a row, the North Carolina women’s basketball team has finished the season as the best team in the ACC. But in each of the previous three years, the Tar Heels were rewarded for winning the ACC Tournament with a No. 2 ranking in the ensuing preseason poll.

Until now.

Even after losing two cornerstones of the program in Erlana Larkins and LaToya Pringle, the Tar Heels will begin the 2008-09 campaign in an unfamiliar role — that of the favorites.

“People said you lost Erlana and LaToya, so it’s kind of shocking that we get a No. 1 now,” senior Heather Claytor said. “But it’s also that people are finally starting to respect us.

And I think it’s time that we got

bar is set when North Carolina walks in. So it’s an honor, the respect that people have for this university and the programs here.”

Hatchell enters her 23rd season at UNC with 784 career wins, making her the third-winningest active coach in the nation.

Though she said she never expected to reach 800 wins when she started coaching, that plateau is clearly within reach this season ­— she’s led the Tar Heels to 20 wins 25 times, and she needs just 16 more for the milestone.

“When I first started coaching, we’d lose a game, and I didn’t sleep at all,” she said. “I’d wake up beating the walls and everything else. I’ve learned to handle it a little better, I guess.”

In the offseason, Hatchell was courted by South Carolina and presented with an offer for the head coaching position there.

Though Hatchell said she was impressed with the conversations she had with the Gamecocks, she chose to stay in Chapel Hill with the program she’s made elite.

“I was convinced that we were going to do bigger and better things here at North Carolina, and this was the right place for me and my family,” Hatchell ut while the players said. have come and gone, o what’s next for the there has been one program that finally mainstay present for the long feels like it’s getting haul — the Hall of Fame head the respect it deserves? That coach.

Hatchell has paved the way depends who you ask.

For the players, there is busifor those four successful years, and she is now reaping the ben- ness left to attend to on the efits of the respect the program court.

“Everybody’s coming for us has garnered.

“It never hurts having the because we’re No. 1 and they light blue color on and ‘North want to be in our spot,” said Alex Carolina’ by your name,” the Miller, who redshirted last year three-time National Coach of due to an injury in what would have been her senior season. “So the Year said.

“There is an expectation; the we just have to defend it. that respect that we deserve as a program.”

That respect has been hardearned, but the body of work is evident.

UNC has had the best winning percentage in the nation for the past four years, at more than 90 percent. It’s been the only team with a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament each of those years.

And, of course, there are those four ACC titles.

Ivory Latta and Camille Little played the starring roles when the title run began. They passed the torch to Larkins and Pringle, who now leave the team in capable hands.

Rashanda McCants, the heir apparent to the role of franchise player, knows that staying No. 1 might be even harder than becoming No. 1.

“We are used to always being overlooked,” McCants, a senior, said. “This year it’s a different team and it’s a different atmosphere for all of us, so it’s just a new challenge that we have to face.

“Especially being No. 1 in the ACC, it’s kind of a head-on challenge because now we’re at the top of the heap, and everyone’s gunning for us.”

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“We know this is what we want. We want more than just ACC Tournament: we want a national championship.”

And for Hatchell, there is much more to accomplish for the program and for women’s basketball as an institution. A renovated arena will be a start, but Hatchell has some lofty goals for the Tar Heels that do not involve a ball and a hoop.

“The last few years, we have done tremendously well, but as far as our marketing, our promotion, our attendance, those types of things, I want us to be where Tennessee, Connecticut, and those folks are,” she said.

“I think going back over to Carmichael (Auditorium), it’s going to be a state-of-the-art women’s basketball arena. No one else in the country is going to have an arena like that, where it’s focused on women’s basketball. I think that’s going to be really good.”

But even the new Carmichael Auditorium isn’ t spacious enough to contain Hatchell’s ambitions.

“My dream is that one day, we’ll sell that out for every game and then we’ll be forced to come back over here (to the Smith Center). I’m hoping that happens in my career, my lifetime.”

That career, one that has spanned more than 1,000 games in 33 years and included national championships at the AIAW, NAIA and NCAA levels, could lay claim to even more milestones before Hatchell turns in her clipboard.

“I still have the heart and the love and the passion for the game and for our players,” she said.

“They keep me young. So as long as that’s going on and we keep winning ball games, there’s no telling how long I’ll keep doing this.”

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One thing about Coach is, he comes in there and he expects us to get better each time we step on the court, and I think that’s something that Coach has really, really been good at.

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She’s an excellent coach.

She’s a Hall-of-Famer, and she gets the job done.

It’s coming for us. All our hard work will pay off by the end of the year.

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Without her we wouldn’t have been No. 1. She knows how to teach us and to lead us on the court and off. She’s always there helping us and pushing us. She always keeps us grounded and lets us know that we still have more to go.

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North Carolina and Duke split games last year, with each losing on its own home court. In Durham, the Tar Heels kept Duke scoreless for the last five-and-a-half minutes and went on a 10-point run for a 76-68 win.

From 1986 to 2004, the Duke men’s basketball team advanced to 10 Final Fours, made seven national championship appearances and won three of them.

But since then, not one Blue Devils squad has advanced past the round of 16.

For a school that boasts the highest winning percentage in NCAA Tournament history, success is measured in March.

And for the past two years, this measurement has been practically nonexistent.

In 2007, Duke lost in the first round of both the ACC and NCAA tournaments. A year later, the Blue Devils went one round further in each.

It might seem Duke developed an unexplainable March transformation.

But maybe not quite.

In 2007-08, the team raced out to a 22-1 record due mainly to impeccable three-point shooting and an uncharacteristic high-tempo press.

But as the season dragged on, so too did the team’s legs.

In the final 11 games, Duke was outrebounded in five and outshot in seven. Not surprisingly, the team lost five and was left sitting at home in late March.

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“Defensively, just locking in on teams and keeping people from scoring — that’s the thing that gets everything else going for us,” junior forward Gerald Henderson noted as a key for improvement this year.

“Something that’s always going to happen is playing hard — that’s just a given.

“Most of the time it doesn’t come down to Xs and Os. It comes down to intelligence, you being tough.”

That sort of toughness can come from many areas, though most teams look to their big men.

Sophomore Kyle Singler filled the role respectably last year, but the 6-foot-8-inch forward is more of a perimeter-oriented player due to his slender build.

But with the addition of newly arrived 6-foot-10-inch freshman Miles Plumlee, a genuine postpresence finally might have made an appearance in Durham.

“It’s something we really haven’t had the last two years,” Henderson said. “It’s something that we’re looking forward to this season, for sure.”

Still, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski won’t be changing his pressing system anytime soon.

His team is built for speed, with sophomore Nolan Smith taking more minutes at point guard. That enables senior Greg Paulus to play shooting guard, giving the Blue Devils a backcourt where both players can handle the ball effectively.

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Clemson back in NCAA mix Wolfpack likes its underdog role

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The 2008 season was a large step forward for the Clemson Tigers as the team burst onto the NCAA Tournament scene for the first time since 1998.

Coach Oliver Purnell has the program heading in the right direct. He has won 49 games in the past two seasons and improved the team’s record every year since he arrived in 2003.

“We’ve accomplished that every year we’ve been here,” Purnell said.

“That means not just playing in the national tournament but being in the national tournament with a chance to win it. Those are our goals. We feel like our program has performed to a point where we can achieve those goals.”

The squad returns three of its top five scorers from last season, including leading scorer K.C. Rivers, who averaged 14.7 points per game. The team captain led the team in scoring during the 200607 campaign as well.

“The main thing is, he’s leading by example,” Purcell said. “He’s in the best shape of his life, he’s playing very well.”

Demontiz Stitt steps into the starting point guard role as a sophomore.

Stitt started 20 games as a freshman and dished out 3.0 assists per contest. The sophomore struggled with his shot last season but is quick off the dribble and a solid defender.

The team also returns shooting guard Terrance Oglesby, who splashed 40 percent of his shots from 3-point range, good for third in the ACC. Oglesby’s ability to stretch defenses with deep shooting compliments the slashing drives of Rivers.

“This should be a good shooting team,” Rivers said. “Ogelsby is a deadly sharpshooter from long range, so it’s gonna be a good thing to see.”

Trevor Booker, also a strong shooter who “says he’s the best” on the team, Rivers said, returns for his junior season after grabbing a team-high 7.3 rebounds per game last year.

Clemson adds four prospects to the roster this season, most notably 5-foot-9-inch Andre Young and 7-foot-2-inch Catalin Baciu. Young likely will see significant minutes as a backup point guard and Baciu

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Clemson’s Trevor Brooker, with the help of Cliff Hammonds’ 31 points, took the Tar Heels to double overtime in the Smith Center last year. will provide depth behind Booker.

But there are some holes to fill.

The Tigers will miss point guard Cliff Hammonds, who averaged double figures in scoring during each of his three seasons at Clemson.

The team also lost forward James Mays and Sam Perry to graduation.

Mays averaged 10.7 points and grabbed nearly seven rebounds a game during his senior season.

“He was the point of our press, so I’m looking to take over that spot. It’s going to be tough, but I’m looking to get the job done,” Booker said.

“Mays was very athletic and long. I’m not as long as him, but I can move pretty good, so that’s what I’m looking to do.”

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The combination of last season’s losing record, the loss of the year’s two leading scorers and this year’s average recruiting haul doesn’t intimidate the rest of the ACC. It also makes it easy to forget that the Wolfpack returns three of the top five scorers from the squad that reached the finals of the ACC Tournament in 2007.

And the team welcomes back last year’s starting point guard, Farnold Degan, who guided the Wolfpack to a 7-3 start last year before going down with a knee injury.

While slated to finish ninth in the ACC by the media, this wealth of returning talent has the Wolfpack cherishing their underdog position.

“I think it’s going to be actually better for us,” senior forward Ben McCauley said. “I think our mindset this year is going in and not holding anything back and playing our butts off, showing people what we’re made of.”

If they intend to make a statement, the Wolfpack will need McCauley and junior forward Brandon Costner to return to form after a disappointing performance from both players last season.

After establishing himself as one of the ACC’s most versatile threats as a freshman, Costner fell off the map in 2007-08, averaging a mere 8.5 points and 4.6 rebounds per game — nearly halving his freshman numbers in both categories.

McCauley’s numbers dipped even more sharply, averaging 6.1 points per contest, more than eight points fewer than his 2006-07 total.

“I think we both kind of molded ourselves to where we need to be and where we were two years ago,” McCauley said. “I think that’s going to be really important — that we get back to the way we were playing then, because we played well.”

In his third year at the helm of the program, coach Sidney Lowe will look to use a deep bench in order to keep fresh bodies on the floor and establish his up-tempo system.

“I like to have nine guys. I’d like to have 10 if possible,” Lowe said of his rotation.

Lowe will look to use the speedy

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The Tar Heels have lost one game to N.C. State in the past four years. guard tandem of Degan and Javier Gonzalez to push the ball on the break, along with senior wing Courtney Fells, a strong 3-point shooter who can put up big numbers from the outside.

For the Wolfpack’s up-tempo system to be successful, though, they will need big contributions off the bench, where sharp-shooting junior guard Trevor Ferguson and sophomore forward Tracy Smith likely will see significant playing time.

“Some teams can win it with their starters because they’re just that much better and they’re able to play long minutes,” Lowe said.

“Some teams can win it because they have a second team that’s better than the other team’s second team.”

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After graduating two leading scorers, most coaches would emphasize picking up the scoring slack left by those two.

Not Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt. He has been focusing their attention on tightening up the defense, and the message seems to be getting through.

“I live to play defense,” junior Zach Peacock said. “If you look at my stat line, it may look like offense if my thing, but no, I live to play defense. It’s something I enjoy doing.”

That attitude isn’t just coming from Peacock.

“I’m trying to be a lot more vocal defensively, trying to lead by example,” senior guard Lewis Clinch said. “Every day I come out and try to go as hard as I possibly can.”

This approach would not make sense on the surface, but a closer inspection belies the problem: most measures listed Georgia Tech as the worst defense in the ACC last year.

They finished last in scoring defense, field goal percentage defense and defensive rebounds per game.

They gave up some 150 extra free throws to their opponents through the course of the season, and that was good for the lead in the ACC for most free throws against.

“I think the foul disparity is a combination of us fouling too many jump shooters and not having the quickness and the aggressiveness at the point guard spot to get into the teeth of the defense,” Hewitt said.

The team is returning only three starters, having already lost D’Andre Bell, one of their top defenders, to a season-ending spinal condition during this preseason.

Georgia Tech was predicted to finish eighth in the ACC, a decline

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UNC needed a last-minute Danny Green block and 27 points from Tyler Hansbrough to ward off the Jackets, 83-82, in Atlanta, Ga., last year. from last year’s seventh-place finish performance.

Peacock, who came off the bench in every game he played last season, figures to be the person most likely to experience a breakout season, after he averaged 9.9 points per game in limited minutes.

That average will have to increase with the losses of Smith and Morrow and their combined 24.8 points per game.

Smith also doubled as the leading rebounder, pulling down 7.1 rebounds — three more than his closest competition on the team.

Georgia Tech is hoping for Peacock and sophomore Gani Lawal to make up for those lost rebounds, as well as Smith’s tenacity in the low post.

But the post players are not the only people responsible for rebounds in the Yellow Jackets’ system.

“Our team concept is gang rebounding,” Peacock said. “Most teams will probably put the blame all on the bigs, but at Georgia Tech,

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Last season’s Virginia Tech Hokies had their share of memorable moments.

Coach Seth Greenberg led one of the nation’s youngest teams to a surprising 21-14 finish and respectable fourth-place finish in the ACC. A team with a rotation that included six freshmen, two of whom were starters, exceeded the expectations of many — but not their own.

“It’s the same thing every year,” senior shooting guard A.D. Vassallo said. “We gotta make it to the NCAA Tournament. That’s the goal regardless. Last year was no exception.”

The Hokies saw their NCAA hopes dashed with a 68-66 loss against North Carolina in the ACC Tournament semifinals, with the prevailing image of Tyler Hansbrough’s fadeaway jumper — and his subsequent celebration down the court — eliminating the Hokies.

Such moments encapsulated the 2007-08 Virginia Tech Hokies, a young team that came close but fell just shy.

Point guard Malcolm Delaney, and forward Jeff Allen are two key returning sophomores. Allen led the team in rebounding with 7.6 per game and was third in scoring.

This season the team will return a more seasoned core, barring one noticeable absence.

Virginia Tech will have to replace senior swingman and second-round NBA draft pick Deron Washington, who averaged 13.1 points and 6.5 rebounds per game.

“We gotta get a guy who can guard a point guard to a power forward, and we got to find a guy that can get us seven rebounds a game,” Greenberg said. “I’m not sure one person can do that.”

The solution?

“I think we gotta replace him by committee,” he said.

Greenberg already has looked to forward J.T. Thompson, forward Terrell Bell and guard Dorenzo Hudson to compensate for the offensive and defensive force lost.

Leading scorer and senior guard Vassallo, who averaged 16.9 points per game, will look to take the helm for the returning Hokies.

“Can I score more points? If it’s required, I’ll do it,” Vassallo said. “I definitely need to rebound the ball

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J.T. Booker and the Hokies almost got an upset against UNC in the ACC tournament, but Tyler Hansbrough’s fadeaway jumper sealed the win. a lot better. I’ve got to play a little bit better defense and try to be a leader and a scorer.”

The team also will benefit from the addition of freshmen forwards Victor Davila and Gene Swindle.

“I think we’re more athletic as a whole,” Delaney said. “We’re expanding our offense. We’re going to attack people more than we did last year.”

The Hokies are poised to build more unforgettable memories this season — memories that won’t leave a sour taste in their mouths.

“Last season is over,” Greenberg said. “If we concern ourselves about anything that was in the past, then we’re being foolish. We gotta stay in the present. The present is what we’re going to do today.”

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Tar Heels top talented ACC Huskies back atop hoops world by beth mechum

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Though the North Carolina Tar Heels won 30 or more games each of the past four seasons — becoming just the fifth school in NCAA history to do so — this year marks the first time in the last four that UNC will enter the season as the preseason favorite in the ACC. The panel, comprised of national and local members of the media and school representatives, ranked the ACC schools similarly to how they finished the 2007-08 regular season — the top four remained exactly the same: North Carolina, followed by Maryland, then Duke, then Virginia.

While one might easily view the top few teams as the Tar Heels’ only competition, that would not be prudent — each of the top eight teams in the ACC finished last season with an overall record well better than .500. Few conferences in the nation, if any, boast the level of competition that the ACC does.

And considering the squads of perennial rivals Maryland and Duke, UNC will need to play excellent basketball all season long to retain its perch atop the rankings.

Maryland went 33-4 last year and 13-1 in the conference, with its lone loss coming against UNC on Jan. 26. In that game, the then-No. 3 Tar Heels survived a double-overtime thriller against the then-No. 4 Terrapins, 97-86, in Chapel Hill.

Almost a year to the day — Jan. 25, 2009 — UNC will travel to College Park, Md., for a rematch.

And they will face a Maryland team which features the ACC Preseason Player of the Year, senior guard Kristi Toliver, along with fellow senior Marissa Coleman — who both have their sights set on nothing less than a national title. “Your senior year, you always want to end up on top,� Toliver said. “My freshman year, Marissa and I had that storybook ending, and we would love nothing more to have that same ending this season.�

Both Toliver and Coleman are listed on the All-ACC Preseason Team, along with UNC’s Rashanda

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McCants, Duke’s Chante Black a n d U Va .’s Mo n i c a Wr i g h t .

Maryland’s lineup also features the ACC Preseason Rookie of the Year — freshman center Lynetta Kizer. “We are extremely proud to have the Preseason Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the most competitive conference in the nation,� Terrapin coach Brenda Frese said of Toliver and Kizer. “It speaks volumes for our program.�

UNC and Maryland look like the early-season favorites to win the conference, but Duke could easily come out on top when all is said and done.

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Gay said. “Regardless of where we are now in other people’s eyes.�

And the middle teams in the conference pose a tremendous threat to the top three. Fourthranked Virginia and fifth-ranked FSU return the vast majority of their rosters from last year, and both figure to improve.

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UNC’s Iman McFarland, a senior, has gone 2-1 against the Huskies in her Tar Heel career, with the sole loss coming in Storrs, Conn., last year. tent year and become a go-to player especially when Montgomery is resting on the bench.

Charles said she Auriemma has been riding her hard in practice, but that’s what she needs to stay focused. “(I’m) just realizing that he’s giving me an opportunity. Just realizing that every day in practice is an opportunity for you to work out, go hard and show your teammates that they could trust you and to gain the respect that you want inside the lane.�

Even though UConn has a leg up on the competition because of who it’s bringing back, the team knows things won’t be easy. The top teams stay at the top because of recruiting, so all the other teams are sure to have a lot to throw at them.

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Deacons add talent, depth Fresh faces dominate FSU roster

By David Reynolds

BY GRANT FITZGERALD

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Entering his second season as Wake Forest coach, Dino Gaudio knows the expectations are high.

But he also knows that this is the most talented roster the Demon Deacons have had since Chris Paul departed for the NBA in 2005.

Ranked 24th overall in the ESPN/USA Today Preseason Coaches Poll, the team looks to build on its 2007-08 record with a mixture of young talent and veteran leadership.

Gaudio made a splash with his first recruiting class when he signed a trio of five-star big men in Al-Farouq Aminu, Tony Woods, and Ty Walker.

Those three should fit right in with a deep and experienced unit that returns all five starters and 97 percent of the team’s production in every major statistic.

Using a lengthy rotation of ball handlers, Gaudio hopes to play faster this year and push the ball up the court. That shouldn’t be too much of an issue for his cast of guards.

“When you have two kids like Jeff Teague and Ishmael Smith, those guys are really, really fast.”

Gaudio said. “So we want to push the ball.”

Senior Harvey Hale, junior L.D. Williams and sophomore shooter Gary Clarke also figure to receive significant playing time as well.

Yet for all the depth in the backcourt, Williams knows that the team won’t be guard dominated.

“Every time we come down the floor, we’re looking to throw it inside,” he said. “I know hopefully, I’m a good set-up shooter, and if they get doubled, I’m ready to shoot.”

While returning starters Chas McFarland and James Johnson likely will keep their starting jobs, the heralded freshmen will be counted on heavily to anchor the backcourt down the stretch of the season. Aminu, who Gaudio described as “talented, attentive and very coachable,” could eventually become a starter because of the match-up problems he creates.

Perhaps Wake Forest’s biggest advantage this year, though, is the returning experience, something that couldn’t be said for the past two years.

“That’s big, when you don’t lose a lot and you can build on what you had the year before or two years before that,” Williams said.

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Wake Forest’s David Weaver is one of 10 underclassmen on a young but talented team who will look to improve on a subpar ACC record last year.

“We learned a whole new defense last year, and we don’t have to start from square one again. We can start from where we left off, and it’s really helping us a lot.”

A relatively easy nonconference schedule should put the Deacons in good position before they begin ACC play with a showdown against defending champs North Carolina on Jan. 11.

But for all the added expectations, Gaudio is approaching this season with a humble outlook.

“I’d rather have this kind of pressure than the other,” he said. “But we’re gonna go about our business the same way, and you’ve got to get ready for each and every game, or else it’s a long bus ride home.”

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Opposing teams trying to scout for Florida State this season might have quite a bit of trouble finding up-to-date game tape.

The 2008-09 Seminoles will hardly resemble any of the teams they have fielded in years past.

Ralph Mims, Jason Rich and Isaiah Swann, last year’s senior leaders, all graduated and leave FSU scrambling to replace their production and leadership.

The numbers the trio leaves behind are staggering — 37.9 points, 6.6 assists and 11.8 rebounds a game must be replaced. That’s a tall order for group that has trouble keeping up in the ACC to begin with.

“My biggest concern all year long — how in the world am I going to take five freshmen, a junior college player and a redshirt freshmen and meld this together?” coach Leonard Hamilton said. “And to be honest, you have a concern of the unknown.”

One player Hamilton won’t have to worry about is senior Toney Douglas. The point guard led the team with 15.4 points per contest last season and will be the guiding force for the Seminoles.

Douglas, who led the conference in steals last season, said he will set the tone for the team with his effort on the court.

“I make sure that every day in practice, I give it my all when I step on the court because they’re going to go how I go,” he said.

“If they see me guarding, standing in stance every possession, that’s getting them fired up.”

Other key contributors returning for Florida State are forwards Uche Echefu and Ryan Reid.

Echefu posted solid numbers in his junior campaign, averaging 10.0 points per game and a teamleading 7.3 rebounds per game.

Reid didn’t have as much of an impact statistically, averaging only 5.6 ppg and 5.0 rpg, but he did start 21 games and will bring much needed experience to the young team.

The wild card will be 7-foot-1-inch center Solomon Alabi, who proved himself to be an effective shot-blocker in limited time last year.

Echefu, who checks in at 6 feet, 9 inches, said he thinks he and Alabi will be an intimidating defensive presence for opposing teams.

“If I get a blow-by, I know Solomon’s there to cover my back,” he said. “Even in practice, we do that all the time. I set him up for blocks, and he goes and gets it.”

As for the bevy of newcomers in

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Tallahassee, Chris Singleton should make the biggest impact. The McDonald’s All-American has a great perimeter shot, and at 6 feet, 9 inches, and 220 lbs., he has the body to score in the paint as well.

Hamilton said Singleton is doing all the little things right in practice so far.

“Chris had all the hype, but he’s come in and did all the dirty work,” he said. “He’s rebounding, defending, running the floor. He’s not hunting shots, he’s passing the ball.”

Florida State’s inexperience should produce inconsistency, but this team has the potential to pull a few surprise upsets if they can gel in the early stages of the season.

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Vasquez to lead Terps in NCAA tourney quest

By Mark Thompson Senior Writer

Gary Williams, who has coached the Maryland Terrapins to 14 straight postseason appearances, begins the 2008-09 season with one of his youngest teams yet.

Headed by junior Greivis Vasquez, the Terrapins return one senior and three juniors to its roster, most of whom fill the only starting roles returning this season.

With such a young team the Terrapins know they aren’t expected to advance farther than last year’s NIT spot — but they’ve set out to prove that expectation wrong.

“It’s understandable when people say that we’re probably make it back to the NIT and all that, because we lost James (Gist) and Boom (Bambale Osby), but I think we’re doing a pretty good job as a team right now,” Vasquez said.

Losing its frontcourt starters, Gist and Osby, the Terrapins will have to replace each position, and Williams has two young sophomores in mind: 6-foot-8-inch Braxton Dupree and 6-foot-9-inch Jerome Burney.

Alongside these two, Williams plans to move junior Landon Milbourne to forward to provide some quickness to the frontcourt.

“That’s our biggest thing we have to do right now is figure out how to get some inside guys out there that can play,” Williams said.

“The great thing for our inside players this year is they’ll get their opportunity.”

The Terrapins are a team that understand both colossal victories and disappointing defeats. Last season, Maryland lost to both Ohio and American — in both games, the Terrapins scored less than 60 points.

“I think that you have to respect everybody,” Williams said. “I’m not sure we respected everybody we played last year.”

Vasquez also attributed these losses, as well as similar losses to Boston College and Virginia Tech, to a lack of preparation and vowed to have his teammates ready to play each game.

“I think we’ve gotta be ready for every game we play, no matter who we play,” Vasquez said. “If we’re going to lose a game, we’re going to lose by playing hard and having pride.”

But last season wasn’t all tough losses. Maryland defeated topranked North Carolina, 82-80, in a game in which Vasquez had 12 points and 11 assists. That win marked the high point of their 2007-08 season.

Vasquez knows UNC is the

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Danny Green and the Tar Heels bounced back from a conference loss to Maryland with a rout at Miami four days later, in which leading-scorer Tyler Hansbrough notched 27 of his 35 points in the second half.

High expectations for Miami

By Scott Powers Senior Writer

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Maryland’s Cliff Tucker (24) and the graduated Bambale Osby gave the Tar Heels their first loss last season, an 82-80 upset of then-No. 1 UNC. favorite this season as well and looks forward to that match-up once again this year.

“Carolina is the favorite, but I’m not really afraid of Carolina because we always beat them,” Vasquez said.

“I haven’t lost any games since I’ve been in college against UNC — I’m not afraid of them.

Now, on the cusp of the 200809 season, Williams will turn to Vasquez — the team’s selfappointed captain — to lead the Terrapins to what they hope will be a revamped season and a return to the NCAA Tournament.

“It’s going to be a completely different team — I’m pretty positive about it,” Vasquez said.

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Senior guard Jack McClinton and the Miami men’s basketball team have something to prove.

With four seniors and five juniors on the roster, this is the Hurricanes’ best chance to post their first-ever winning record in the ACC. Last season Miami went 8-8 in the conference and earned its first NCAA Tournament bid since 2002.

This was one year after finishing a conference-worst 4-12.

Expectations were low for the Hurricanes, but that just motivated them to surprise everyone.

“That’s got to be the staple of Hurricane basketball is that we got to play with an edge. We got to play with a chip all the time,” coach Frank Haith said.

“We don’t have McDonald’s AllAmericans. We have guys that have worked and developed.”

McClinton said his team cannot afford to become complacent after reaching The Big Dance.

“That little chip we had on our shoulder last year — I think it really took us a long way last year, so why get rid of it?” McClinton said.

“I may put a chip on my shoulder for the rest of my life.”

McClinton has had that chip on his shoulder for his entire college career. Not recruited out of high school, he played at Siena College for one year before transferring to Miami. Last year he became the first UM basketball player to gain

All-ACC First Team honors.

“He’s exceeded my expectations,” Haith said. “I didn’t know he was going to be this good. I thought Jack was a good player, but, I mean, first team all-league, and a player that I think has a chance to make money to play?

“That work ethic is ingrained in his soul, that’s not going to change.

I don’t think he knows any other way to do it other than to work.”

Last year McClinton was the go-to scorer, leading the Hurricanes with 17.7 points per game. Now he has to prove that he is worthy of a 2009 NBA Draft pick despite questions about his size.

“Jack is a valuable guy, not because of what he does on the court, but because of what he demands of his teammates and how he expresses himself with his teammates,” Haith said.

In order for McClinton to earn a spot on an NBA roster, he and Miami will have to meet expectations of the media, who picked them to finish fourth in the ACC. “I don’t think it changes anything,” Lance Hurdle said. “We still got to stay humble, we still got that chip on our shoulder so I don’t’ think anything really changed. The expectation is fun, though, to read and stuff like that but we still have the same goal.”

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“He’s a decent shooter, but he’s getting better every day,” McClinton said of Jones. “If you ask me this question maybe a month from now, maybe he’s a good shooter. He can definitely put the ball in the hole.”

Haith also said Jones is very talented but pointed to some room for improvement.

“He should do good,” Haith said. “He’s a good player. Now, he has no clue defensively. I told him yesterday, he’s getting lit up like a Christmas tree.”

McClinton also will look to Dews, who averaged 10.3 points per game last season, to ease some of the scoring burden.

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Eagles look for offensive partner for Rice Hope several players will share task

BY Ben Baden Staff Writer

There was only one unanimous All-ACC preseason first team selection besides Tyler Hansbrough — Boston College’s Tyrese Rice.

This year’s Eagles will face the same problem they did last season — finding another weapon to compliment point guard Rice.

He was selected to the All-ACC first team last season after he finished second in the ACC in scoring, averaging 21.0 points per game, just 1.6 points per game behind Hansbrough’s total.

And Coach Al Skinner said other players stepping up will be key for his team this season.

“If we’re going to have any chance to be successful, they’re going to have to take some (pressure) off his shoulders because we do need to spread it around,” Skinner said.

“Hopefully it’s two or three, and if we have that, that allows us to live and to have some success, whereas last year, if you beat Tyrese, you beat BC.” The Eagles are picked to finish 11th this season, ahead of only Virginia, after finishing 14-17 (4-12 ACC) and 11th in the conference last season.

Rice said that after losing John Oates and Tyrelle Blair, the team has picked up more guards, which will enable them to run the floor

better.

“It’s going to be a lot more up tempo,” he said. “I think there’s going to be a lot of things that we can do this year that we couldn’t do last year.

“We’re going to extend the floor a little bit more on defense.”

The Eagles will return their second-leading scorer from last season, Rakim Sanders, and a versatile player in Corey Raji who has experience at both the small and power forward positions.

He led the team in field goal percentage, shooting nearly 61 percent, and started the final six games for the Eagles.

Skinner said that his returning players learned from their struggles last season and that their response will dictate their team’s success this season.

“Right now we’ve got a core of guys that’s seen it, confronted it, been involved and had a chance to think about it,” Skinner said. “Now can we respond? That’s going to be our challenge.”

They will be young inside after losing Oates and Blair. Left to fill the void is the Eagles’ lone player that stands above 6-foot-8-inches — Josh Southern. Southern didn’t exactly stuff the stat sheet last year, playing in 20 games and starting none.

Nonetheless, he will be counted upon to up his average of 5.7

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He will be helped underneath the basket by freshman Evan Ravenel.

An undersized, somewhat unheralded power forward, Ravenel also fits the mold of previous BC post players like Jared Dudley.

Skinner said he is confident in his smaller team’s ability to be more efficient with the ball.

“Our defense may not be as strong in the interior without those individuals, but we can make up for some with our better ball handling and, from that, less turnovers and better execution on the offensive end,” he said.

“I’m hoping that we’re a better perimeter defending team.”

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UVa. trying to replace Singletary

By Jonathan Jones Staff Writer

attempt to command the paint.

The 7-foot Sene, along with Brandenburg, just a hair shorter at 6 feet, 11 inches, look to resurrect the big-man position for the Cavaliers.

“Assane and John definitely brought a lot to the team,” Diane said.

“We really didn’t have it at that position last year. They’re both very young, and they both play with a lot of energy, Assane in particular.”

The Missourian Brandenburg and Sene will have to adjust to the collegiate level before they blossom, Leitao said.

“They’ve gotten away with lots of things being 6-11 in high school,” said Leitao, the 2007 ACC Coach of the year.

“They don’t have to go up and dunk the ball every time because they could lay it up over a 6-3 guy.”

And teaching Brandenburg, Sene and the rest of Leitao’s young

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“That right now is the fun of everything for me, is walking into the gym as a teacher more than anything else right now.”

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Tyler Hansbrough’s 23 points helped hold off the Cavaliers, and UVa.’s impressive 27 from Sean Singletary, in a 75-74 win for UNC.

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Dave Leitao’s Virginia squad has all the familiar symptoms of a rebuilding team.

The Cavaliers won only five ACC games last year, failed to get an invitation to the NCAA or NIT tournaments in 2008 and were tabbed to be the caboose of the 12team ACC. On top of that, Sean Singletary, the most heralded Wahoo since Ralph Sampson, graduated after the 2008 season.

But Leitao insists that his team isn’t completely dismantled as it begins this season.

“We’re not building from scratch, because we already have a foundation,” Leitao, the fourth-year head coach, said.

“But we’re at a stage similar to one’s first year or second year in that there’s a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that you have to establish.”

One unknown that must be established early for the Cavaliers is who will step up at the helm.

During the past three years, their unquestioned leader was Singletary.

Singletary received first-team

All-ACC honors three times in his four-year tenure and finished as the only ACC player to record 2,000 points, 500 assists, 400 rebounds and 200 steals in a career.

But Mamadi Diane has called his own number early in the preseason and taken over the captain’s seat.

“I’m being more vocal, leading by example, understanding that I can’t really fall back with the rest of the crowd anymore,” said Diane, a senior.

“I have to stand out more than ever in every part of practice. So far it’s been a challenge, and I think I’m getting better at it.”

Last year, the 6-foot-5-inch guard/forward averaged 11.8 points in 28.8 minutes per game.

The sharpshooter led the team in three pointers with 60 and racked up a team-high 22 blocks.

“To just increase his ability — to not only perform at a high level, but to be a better version of himself,” Leitao said.

“And if he’s that, he’ll be a better leader, a better player, a better contributor.”

With Diane taking the reins in the backcourt, freshmen Assane Sene and John Brandenburg will

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