2 friday, november 5, 2010 Basketball 2010-11 The Daily Tar Heel

No.
2010-11 Men’s Basketball Roster
Player Year
1 Dexter Strickland SO
2 Leslie McDonald SO
Pos.
G
G
Height
6’ 3”
6’ 4”
UNC moves past NIT year
3 Daniel Bolick SR
5 Kendall Marshall FR
G
G
5’ 10”
6’ 3”
Tar Heels learn
11 Larry Drew II JR G 6’ 2” from mistakes
13 Van Hatchell SR F 6’ 4”
15 Stewart Cooper JR F 6’ 5” by grant fitzgerald
staff writer
22 David Dupont JR F 6’ 5” Moral victories just won’t cut it
24 Justin Watts JR G 6’ 4” anymore. Not for a school that has
25 Justin Knox GS F 6’ 9” been to the Final Four 18 times.
30 Patrick Crouch JR G 5’ 11” Not for a coach already enshrined
in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
31 John Henson SO F 6’10” Not for a rabid fanbase two years
32 D.J. Johnston JR F 6’ 4” removed from a national champi-
35 Reggie Bullock FR G 6’ 7” onship.
40 Harrison Barnes FR F 6’ 8” That was a lesson the players of
the North Carolina men’s basket-
44 Tyler Zeller JR F 7’ 0” ball team learned the hard way last
Head Coach: Roy Williams Assistant Coach: Steve Robinson year.
Director of Basketball Assistant Coach: Jerod Haase All the members of last year’s
Operations: Joe Holladay Assistant Coach: C.B. McGrath NIT runner-up squad know that
this year must not resemble last
season’s record. They know that
2010-11 MEN’s Basketball Schedule second place in the NIT, maybe a
Date Time Opponent Tv moral victory at other schools, is an
embarrassment at UNC.
Fri. Nov. 5 7:30 p.m. vs. Barton (Exhibition) “Last year wasn’t fun for any-
Fri. Nov. 12 7 p.m. vs. Lipscomb FSS body,” junior point guard Larry
Thurs. Nov. 18 5 p.m. vs. Hofstra (PR) ESPN2 Drew II said. “Coaches, players, I
Fri. Nov. 19 TBA vs. TBA (PR) ESPNU feel like the whole state of North
Carolina, nobody had a good
Sun. Nov. 21 TBA vs. TBA (PR) TBA time.”
Tues. Nov. 23 7 p.m. vs. UNC-Asheville FSS The season’s failure left a bad and always be together and work
Sun. Nov. 28 5:30 p.m. vs. College of CharlestonFSN taste in the mouth of coach Roy out together,” Henson said. “That’s
Williams, who failed to make the something we made a conscious
Tues. Nov. 30 9:30 p.m. at Illinois ESPN NCAA Tournament for the first effort to improve.”
Sat. Dec. 4 12:30 p.m. vs. Kentucky CBS time during his tenure at UNC. Disappointed in his team’s
Wed. Dec. 8 7 p.m. at Evansville ESPNU “I don’t think I’m ever going to toughness last season, Williams
forget what happened last year,” brought back a conditioning pro-
Sat. Dec 11 7 p.m. vs. Long Beach State FSS Williams said. “I don’t think I’m gram from 1981 with which he used
Sat. Dec. 18 4 p.m. vs. Texas (Greensboro) CBS ever going to put it out of my to test the likes of Michael Jordan
Tues. Dec. 21 7 p.m. vs. William & Mary ESPN2 mind.” and Sam Perkins.
Tues. Dec. 28 9 p.m. vs. Rutgers (NYC) ESPN2 But how does a team with no Williams also pointed to an
scholarship seniors rebound from increase in his team’s ability to
Sun. Jan. 2 3:30 p.m. vs. St. Francis (PA) FSS a disastrous season? The answer put the ball in the basket. The Tar
Sat. Jan. 8 12 p.m at Virginia Raycom may depend on whom you ask. Heels ranked second-to-last in the
Thurs. Jan 13 9 p.m. vs. Virginia Tech ESPN/ESPN2 Drew, whom much of the blame conference in field goal percent-
for last season centered on after age and seventh in scoring offense
Sun. Jan. 16 7:45 p.m. at Georgia Tech FSN the Tar Heels finished last in the when playing ACC opponents.
Tues. Jan. 18 8 p.m. vs. Clemson Raycom ACC in turnover margin, used the Williams’ team frequently
Wed. Jan. 26 7:30 p.m. at Miami ESPN/ESPN2 offseason to work around the clock ranked among the top offensive
on improving in the gym. units in the league and the coun- dth File Photo
Sat. Jan. 29 2 p.m. vs. N.C. State ESPN “With so much negativity, you try. But scoring should rise with Roy Williams closed his worst season at UNC with an NIT finals loss to
Tues. Feb. 1 9 p.m. at Boston College Raycom just try to find a silver lining,” Drew the addition of three high-profile Dayton. The Tar Heels must improve this year without Deon Thompson.
Sun. Feb. 6 2 p.m. vs. Florida State FSN said. “For me, it was just getting in freshman, including preseason All-
the gym and just making a promise American Harrison Barnes. the hard work manifested itself in the pressure to rectify last season
Wed. Feb. 9 9 p.m. at Duke Raycom/ESPN
to myself that I wasn’t going to go “We have an ability to score,” August during the Tar Heels’ bas- increases exponentially.
Sat. Feb. 12 1 p.m. at Clemson Raycom through that again.” Williams said. “Coaches love to ketball excursion to the Bahamas. “There’s probably going to be
Tues. Feb. 15 8 p.m. vs. Wake Forest Raycom Sophomore John Henson points talk about diving on the floor and “ T here were times in the more pressure this year, because
Sat. Feb. 19 4 p.m. vs. Boston College ESPN/ESPN2 to something a little more intangi- drawing charges, but that thing Bahamas when I was sitting on we got to prove something this
ble. The power forward believes the that hangs from the ceiling or the bench and I was watching this year,” sophomore Leslie McDonald
Wed. Feb. 23 9 p.m. at N.C. State Raycom team will benefit from improved is attached to the wall up there and we hit like three or four threes said. “We found that little bond
Sun. Feb. 27 7:45 p.m. vs. Maryland FSN chemistry. is called a scoreboard, and we and a couple layups, so that kind of together and we feel like with us
Wed. March 2 7:00 p.m. at Florida State ESPN/ESPN2 “I think we’re just a lot closer in couldn’t score.” brought me back to how Carolina working together and us doing
age, and we made that an empha- All those improvements sound plays,” he said. stuff together, we’re going to take
Sat. March 5 8 p.m. vs. Duke CBS sis to kind of do things together great in writing, but for Henson, But as the season approaches, this challenge.”

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Table of contents
Women starting anew in ’10
2 Not looking back
UNC didn’t make it to the tournament it wanted.
Now the Tar Heels are moving on from the NIT.
DeGra≠enreid, Lucas lead Tar Heels
by Kelly Parsons
staff writer
scored more than 1,000 points
during their careers at UNC — lead

3
It’s a brand-new atmosphere
and a brand-new season. And the
North Carolina women’s basketball
Improving on Last season team can’t wait to take advantage
of its fresh start.
The Lady Tar Heels enter this season with four Last year, the team finished with
seniors, three of which should play a major roles. a winning record and an NCAA
this year’s squad in experience. But
coach Sylvia Hatchell is expect-
ing huge contributions from her
underclassmen.
Shannon Smith, a 5-foot-7
freshman guard from Gastonia, is
a two-time 3A State Championship

4
tournament bid.
But the 2009-10 campaign is
one nobody on the UNC squad
wants to remember.
‘Knox’ your average transfer “I don’t think I’ve had a sea-
son like that ever,” senior Cetera
North Carolina needed a big man after the Wear DeGraffenreid said. “We came
twins’ transfer, and UNC got that in Justin Knox. here because we like winning, and
Most Outstanding Player and aver-
aged 23 points and seven assists
per game during her senior year
at Gastonia’s Forestview High
School.
Sophomore Waltiea Rolle start-
ed 15 games and led the ACC in
blocks per game last season, and

5
… I think last year (we were) more
focusing on games we were los-
ing.”
The Tar Heels finished 6-8 in
Breland returns from illness the ACC last season and lost five
UNC senior Jessica Breland missed all of last season consecutive conference games
in February. To add to the disap-
while receiving treatments for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. pointments, freshmen and top
Hatchell said there’s more where
that came from — much more. The
35-year veteran coach said Rolle’s
confidence has grown to fit her tall
frame.
“This time last year out there,
Waltiea was 6-foot-7 but she was
like a stick out there just getting

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recruits Cierra Robertson-Warren
and Nyree Williams transferred
Cover Story: from UNC to join other Division I
programs.
On Guard The 13-woman roster might be
Larry Drew, Dexter Strickland and Leslie McDonald missing four old faces, but with
lead the UNC’s backcourt on a guard-laden team. experienced leaders returning, the
bounced around all over the place,”
Hatchell said.
“Now she’s the one doing the
knocking. She along with all the
other ones, they’re just really physi-
cally stronger.”
Hatchell said she looks forward

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Tar Heels remain hopeful.
“We’re not that young anymore,
and we kind of have our heads
on straight now,” senior forward
Two’s company Jessica Breland said. “So we’re
going to go for what we know we
Before Knox arrived, Tyler Zeller and John Henson can get. The sky is the limit. It’s
were UNC’s lone big men and could play big roles. on us.”
to hosting Iowa for the Big Ten/ACC
Challenge and two-time defending
national champions Connecticut in
a renovated Carmichael Arena, but
what she’s most excited about are
the hopes she holds for her much-
improved team.
Ousted in the first round of last

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Back on the court after battling
Hodgkin’s lymphoma during the
2009-10 season, Breland is deter-
mined to pick up where she left off
Teenage Triple threat as the unmistakable leader of the
UNC’s best player this year may come from its Tar Heel team. The 6-foot-3 for-
ward said she is in nearly tip-top
freshman class, featuring the nation’s top recruit.
shape.
year’s NCAA Tournament with
an 82-76 loss to Gonzaga, the Tar
Heels ended a disappointing sea-
son with an uncharacteristic early
exit from the national champion-
ship hunt.
But that’s all behind them now.
“(They learned) not to take any-

8-17
And she’s not the only one who thing for granted,” Hatchell said.
thinks so. “Just because they are wearing the
TIMELINE Breland was named to the pre- Carolina uniform, they’ve got to
season All-ACC team and was make it happen, it’s not just going
ACC TEAM PREVIEWS: dth file photo selected as a Wooden preseason to happen.
Cetera DeGraffenreid will run the point for UNC after a disappointing top 30 along with Tar Heel senior “Last year is over. We learned
19-12 season that ended with a first-round NCAA Tournament exit. Italee Lucas. from it, we move on, and hope-
Seniors Lucas, Breland and fully the best is yet to come,” she
8 Duke DeGraffenreid — all of whom have said.
9 N.C. State 2010-11 WOMEN’s
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11 Virginia & Miami
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12 Clemson
Mon. Nov. 8 6 p.m. vs. Carson-Newman
13 Georgia Tech
Fri. Nov. 12 4 p.m. vs. North Florida
14 Boston College Wed. Nov. 17 7 p.m. vs. Robert Morris
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Allyson Batchelor Senior Italee Lucas is one of three players on the North Carolina ros-
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Justin Knox bolsters UNC paint presence

Graduate student brings needed size “Guys like that
by Aaron Taube
assistant Sports Editor
When Travis and David Wear
decided to transfer from North
Carolina within two months of the
Tar Heels losing leading post scor-
ers Deon Thompson and Ed Davis
to graduation and the NBA draft,
coach Roy Williams found himself
desperately in need of frontcourt
help for a team suddenly missing
68 percent of its low-post scoring.
Needing a player who could
come in and play immediately,
Williams’ options were limited by
the NCAA’s transfer policy, which
usually requires basketball players
to sit out a season after transferring
between two schools in the same
division. Williams was further
restrained by a lack of available
recruits so late in the season.
But NCAA rules state that a
player can receive a transfer waiver
allowing him to play immediately
if the athlete is transferring to a
graduate program not offered by
his previous school and the previ-
ous school gives its consent.
Enter Justin Knox, a 6-foot-9,
240-pound behemoth looking to
leave Alabama after a junior season
in which he averaged 6.3 points
and 3.7 rebounds per game.
“There weren’t a heck of a lot of
choices,” Williams said. “Guys like
that don’t walk up and down the
street in front of your door all the
time.”
Knox had originally planned
to transfer to the University
of Alabama-Birmingham, but
Alabama blocked the move because
UAB is also in the University of
Alabama System.
Instead, he took classes this
past summer in order to enroll in
the sports administration gradu-
ate program at UNC for the fall
semester.
“Af ter I transferred from
Alabama, North Carolina wasn’t
even a thought to me,” Knox said.
“I guess everything happens for a
reason. With the Wear twins trans-
ferring and that leaving a hole in
the frontcourt there became an
opportunity for me and I’m very
grateful for that.”
Though he never imagined him-
self being in Chapel Hill, Knox is
already fitting in with his new
teammates. Though Knox did not
accompany the team on its exhibi-
tion trip to the Bahamas, he played
pickup with the rest of the Tar
Heels during the summer.
“He’s funny, his locker’s right
next to mine,” forward John
Henson said. “He’s kind of quiet,
but he’s starting to come out of his
shell. He’s a cool dude.”
Knox will be one of just three
players capable of lining up at the
four and five positions, making
him an extremely important cog
in the rotation behind Tyler Zeller
and Henson.
Neither Henson nor Zeller has
ever shouldered the load of being a
starter for an entire collegiate sea-
son, and each comes with a defi-
don’t walk up and
down the street in
front of your door
all the time.”
Roy Williams, UNC coach
ciency Knox is expected to help
mitigate.
Though Henson has since put
on 20 pounds during the offsea-
son, the wiry sophomore often
found himself relegated to playing
on the perimeter last season after
being forced out of the paint by
some of the ACC’s bigger, stronger
forwards.
Zeller has played well during his
first two years at UNC, but has been
beset by injuries and spent chunks
of both seasons on the sidelines.
But where Henson lacks power
and Zeller a consistent bill of
health, Knox is strong and sturdy.
The Tuscaloosa, Ala., native’s mas-
sive frame is more than big enough
to handle the wear and tear of the
ACC.
Perhaps more importantly,
Knox has played in every one of
Alabama’s 64 games the past two
seasons.
“Rebounds, post defense, he’s got
a nice back to the basket game—
and that kind of surprised me,”
Henson said. “I think he’s going
to be in there just in the thick of
things.” dth/bj dworak
If he isn’t, it’s going to be another Graduate student Justin Knox transferred from Alabama to UNC this offseason, adding some much-needed
long winter in Chapel Hill. depth to UNC’s frontcourt. At 6-foot-9 and 240 pounds, Knox has the size to bang with the ACC’s best.

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Breland leads UNC after battle with cancer
By Megan Walsh
ASsistant Sports Editor
This time last year, Jessica
Breland was in a hospital bed.
It was not for a quick in-and-out
visit. She was confined there with
Hodgkin’s lymphoma for most of
the North Carolina women’s bas-
ketball season — what was sup-
posed to be her season.
Instead of performing on the
court, the senior forward powered
through chemotherapy treatments
while the rest of her team struggled
to a 19-12 record.
But this year, that’s behind her.
A new Breland returns to the new
Carmichael Arena to make an
enormous impact on a team that
UNC coach Sylvia Hatchell didn’t
even call her own.
“What she’s gone through with
the cancer and all, she’s just so
mature — talking all the time.
There’s no doubt this is her team,”
Hatchell said. “Of course I respect
her so much, her leadership and
all. She wants to have a great senior
year. She wants to win.”
Scoring an average of 14.1 points
per game in the 2008-09 season,
Breland was North Carolina’s sec-
ond-leading scorer in her last sea-
son on the floor.
She also led the squad in
blocks, 108 for the season, as her
team finished 28-7 and went to
Voted Carolina’s Finest Frozen
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Tournament.
During her months of treatment
that included radiation throughout
last season, all Breland could work
on was her shot.
The forward was finally allowed
back on the court to practice with
her teammates and participate in
drills just in time for her Feb. 23
birthday.
After two years of prolonged
sickness and a late diagnosis,
Breland is coming into this season
physically and mentally stronger
than ever. She only occasionally
gets winded or has trouble breath-
ing at practice, and even that
doesn’t hold her back. The forward
usually pushes through it.
Despite working with the team
to gain strength and agility back
throughout last year’s post-season,
Breland took a spot on the bench
in a unique role during games —
right in between the players and
coaches.
“The coaches (were) constantly
telling the players to ‘do this’ and
‘do that’ because we were very
young last year,” Breland said. “I
got the opportunity to actually step
out of the box and see exactly what
they wanted to be done.”
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thinks will be one of her greatest
strengths this season.
“I played with Jessica my fresh-
man year, so I know what it’s like
having her,” senior guard Cetera
DeGraffenreid said. “It’s having her
back on the court and having the
sense of security there. You know if
you throw her the ball, she’s going
to do something with it.”
While it’s clear she has earned
the entire team’s respect and admi-
ration, UNC’s “comeback kid” isn’t
just influencing her teammates on
the court.
“The main thing that we were
lacking last year was leadership,”
Breland said. “I feel like I was the
perfect person to do that. When it
comes to talent, we have it. When
it comes to being disciplined and
making yourself do something, we
kind of lacked at that.”
After establishing a contract this
summer that keeps players account-
able for how many shots they take
per week along with keeping track
of the team’s workout and pickup
schedules, Breland has winning on
her mind and agenda.
It’s something she’s not afraid to
admit, either.
When asked if this year’s group
was her team, Breland simply
cracked a braces-filled grin and
answered with honesty.
“Yes, I do.”
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Guard Tar Heel backcourt will be vital to this year’s NCAA Tournament hopes
by Louie Horvath
senior writer
Guard play.
Those two words can make or break a team.
When the guards are steady and do not suc-
“Well if cumb to pressure — from opposing defenses,
the moment, or their own expectations — there
is no limit to how far the team can go.
you put When a team doesn’t have good guard play,
things can get ugly in a hurry.
A team can be stacked down low, replete
them all with a future lottery draft pick and a cadre of
talented big men, but if the guards cannot get
together, them the ball, scoring proves difficult.
That was the case for the 2009-10 Tar Heels,
as they limped into the NIT after a disappoint-
we’ve ing conference season, eventually losing in the
NIT final.
got the
“I’m hopeful that it’s made the players as
hungry as it has made me,” UNC coach Roy
Williams said. “I’m hopeful that it’s given them
Michael the strength and the stamina in the offseason
to do more than they would have done in the
past.”
Jordan So why would a team that so thoroughly dis-
appointed last year be bestowed with another
of point top-10 ranking to start this season? Two words:
guard play.
guards." A year wiser
To start, look at the known quantities who
roy williams, are returning to the Smith Center.
Leading the attack will be Larry Drew II,
UNC basketball who is entering his third season in Williams’
fast-paced offense.
Coach Last year’s statistics suggest Drew was pass-
able. Nonetheless, the numbers hide the fact
that it appeared Drew struggled to give UNC
any consistency in half-court sets.
“This year, Larry’s more experienced,”
Williams said. “He’s gone through a lot. He’s
gone through a lot of hardships, in my opinion,
also being falsely blamed too much for our lack
of success.”
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He will most likely be flanked by sophomore
Dexter Strickland.
“Well if you put them all three together,
we’ve got the Michael Jordan of point guards,”
of a 20-17 crew is largely intact.
It is the freshmen class. The group has been
hyped ad nauseam since Harrison Barnes’
“Decision-esque” press conference last November
Williams said. “Larry Drew with his length and to announce that he was taking his talents to
his quickness, and Dexter with his speed and
his toughness. Kendall (Marshall), with his
ability to understand the game and be a true
Chapel Hill.
Barnes, a 6-foot-8-inch small forward, has
the ability to handle the ball, score and distrib-
quarterback out there, may be as good a passer
as I’ve ever coached.”
ute to teammates.
The teenager from Ames, Iowa, is already
Strickland showed flashes of awe-inspiring expected to be the No. 1 pick in next year’s
NBA Draft. More importantly, Barnes is also
athleticism in his rookie season, but part of the
problem was his propensity to be careless with a leader.
the ball.
Another year of experience and a summer
of studying last year’s problems can only help
“You don’t see a game as developed as his at
such a young age,” sophomore forward John
Henson said. “Being that I see him everyday
play, he never ceases to amaze me. So I can’t
Strickland as he moves back to his natural posi-
tion at shooting guard. wait to see him help us out on the court.”
“I never played point guard before last year,” Barnes alone would have been a coup for the
Tar Heels, but on top of that, Williams was able
Strickland said. “To go back to my natural posi- dth File Photo dth File Photo
tion was good.” to woo fellow All-Americans Kendall Marshall Sophomore Leslie McDonald came off the bench last year and shot under 31 percent from the field Dexter Strickland brings a drive to the basket that went unequaled by any Tar Heel guard last season. The
“I think last season helped me a little bit
because I never played the 1 before,” said
and Reggie Bullock.
Bullock will provide more explosive scoring
and a career-high 16 points against Wake Forest. He’ll likely get more minutes on the floor this season. sophomore will return to his normal position of 2-guard this year with the addition of Kendall Marshall.
Strickland. with range to help replace Graves’ shooting.
Leslie McDonald was too often the lost man “He looks athletic, and he goes out on the
Controlling
in the perimeter group, as he struggled to get court and plays like that,” Williams said. “He
any minutes behind now-graduated Marcus can shoot the ball in the basket, wonderful 2009 2010
Ginyard and now-dismissed Will Graves. As kid, but long arms. He looks like a basketball
the year went on, he received more and more player.” Adjusted Offensive Efficiency Offensive Turnover Percentage Defensive Turnover Percentage
time as he got stronger on defense. That said, Marshall may just be the most sig-
the rock
nificant of the three, because not only will he
“You know, at the beginning of the year, I was
124.2 20.9
a little nervous, shy, didn’t know what to do,”provide stability at the point guard position, but
20.4
McDonald said of his defense. “By the end of he will also allow Strickland to get back into his
106.8 18.7
16.5
the season, I was out there ready to go, knew comfort zone on the wing.
what my assignment was to do.” If he can wrest the starting position from
With more minutes, McDonald will probably Drew, or at least give him a little competition
showcase the kind of stroke that made him the for it, the team will undeniably be better for it. Adjusted offensive efficiency is the number of points a team
all-time leading scorer in Memphis private highSo far, Marshall has received rave reviews from would put up in a game if they had 100 possessions, but
school history — and not the anemic 30.9 per- his teammates for his vision and passing ability
cent he shot from the field last season. in the half-court. adjusted to the quality of the defense that they faced.
“Kendall’s pushing Larry. Larry’s pushing Turnover percentage is the percentage of possessions out of
New blood Dexter,” Henson said. “They’re all pushing 100 that would end for that team in a turnover. These are
each other, so I think it’s going to be a good both referendums on the ability of each teamʼs guards to get
Most of the reason for excitement about year this year for point guards. We’re going to their team on offense and pressure the opponent out of theirs.
North Carolina basketball isn’t that the heart have fun.”
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8 friday, november 5, 2010
Blue Devils the favorite in ACC, country
by evan g. Marlow
staff writer
Last April, Gordon Hayward’s
half-court heave rimmed out as
time expired and Duke held off
Butler to win its fourth national
championship.
This fall the Blue Devils begin
where they finished as the pre-
season No. 1 team in the country.
While coach Mike Krzyzewski’s
team lost three starters from last
year’s title-winning squad, the
two returning give Duke a shot to
repeat. Preseason All-American
Kyle Singler and senior guard
Nolan Smith both return after
averaging more than 17 points per
game last season.
Singler, who was named the
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“But since I’ve been here that’s kind
of the feeling that I’ve always got,
so I don’t think it’s going to be any
different.”
The Blue Devils have some key
new additions to go along with
their returning stars.
Sophomore guard Seth Curry,
the younger brother of NBA star
Stephen Curry, is ready to join the
Blue Devils after sitting out last
season following him transferring
from Liberty. The sharpshooter led
all freshmen with 20.2 points per
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“He’s going to be really good,”
Singler said. “He complements our
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going to be able to shoot the ball
and he’s also going to be a threat
for other teams.”
Joining Curry in the backcourt
will be McDonald’s All-American Duke
and the top-ranked freshman point RECORD ‘09-’10
guard Kyrie Irving. Irving will be
29-5
expected to come in and be a big
contributor to the team right away. ACC RECORD
The other key piece in the deep 13-3
Duke backcourt is sophomore HEAD COACH
Andre Dawkins, who Krzyzewski Mike Krzyzewski
thinks has improved a lot since STADIUM
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Up front the Blue Devils will PLAYERS TO WATCH
look to the Plumlee brothers for Kyle Singler
size. Junior Miles Plumlee returns Nolan Smith
after a strong season and sopho- Kyrie Irving
more Mason Plumlee will have a
bigger role this season.
Smith expects good things from Smith thinks his team is focused
the brothers this season. and ready to defend their title.
“They’re so athletic and so tal- “We have everybody on the
ented that their scoring is going to same page right now to where it’s
come,” Smith said. “If they do the all about winning basketball games
dirty work that we need, rebound- and making each other better,”
ing, protecting our rim, blocking Smith said.
shots, they’re going to be very good “And that could make us very
for us.” dangerous to repeat.”
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N.C. State gets trio of top freshmen recruits

by Michael Lananna
staff writer
A season ago, N.C. State found
itself knocking on the cellar door
of the ACC, finishing 11th in the
conference and settling for a sec-
ond-round exit in the National
Invitational Tournament.
But as a promising recruit-
ing class steps in to bolster the
Wolfpack roster, the disappoint-
ment of last year has been replaced
by an unmistakable buzz.
“This is the first time that we’ve
been able to get this type of class,
to get in with these type of play-
ers,” coach Sidney Lowe said at
ACC Media Day. “You hope for one.
Two in a year would be great, but
we were fortunate and got three
really good players.”
Guards Lorenzo Brown and
Ryan Harrow and forward C.J.
Leslie make up the freshman tri-
fecta that has talent evaluators
salivating. All three were Parade
All-America selections and can be
dth file photo
N.C. State swarms UNC’s John Henson in a 74-61 Tar Heel victory. Head
found scattered among a bevy of
top prospect lists.
“I think we got a top-five recruit-
ing class,” senior power forward
Tracy Smith said. “C.J., Lorenzo
and Ryan, I think those are the key
pieces to the puzzle that we’ve been
missing.”
Smith, an All-ACC second-team
member last year, is arguably the
team’s top player. The seasoned
veteran led the ACC in field goal
percentage and placed in the top
10 in rebounds and points per
game last season — and he could
improve on those numbers in his
final collegiate season.
“I’ve been in the weight room
working hard,” Smith said. “It’s
been a very productive preseason
for me.”
Other returning starters include
senior point guard Javier Gonzalez,
who led the team with 129 assists
last season, and sophomore for-
ward Scott Wood, who averaged
7.8 points per game.
Sophomores DeShawn Painter
and the towering 7-foot-1 Jordan
Vandenberg are expected to battle
for the starting center role — a
position that Smith was forced to
occupy at times last year. N.C. State
The power forward also carried
RECORD ‘09-’10
much of the offensive burden, scor-
ing nearly a quarter of the points 19-15
on a team that averaged the sec- ACC RECORD
ond-fewest points per game in the 5-11
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Virginia Tech looks to end NCAA drought

Picked to finish second in conference “(Jarell Eddie)
By Brooke Pryor preseason All-Conference Team.
knows how to play
staff writer Delaney is not the only standout the game and he’s
For the past three years, the player on the team, as fellow senior
coming around Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech Hokies have come Jeff Allen ranked fifth in steals and
RECORD ‘09-’10
close to appearing in the NCAA
Tournament, yet were instead sent
eighth in rebounding in the ACC.
He also led the team in blocks last very fast.” 23-8
to the NIT. season, rejecting the ball on aver- ACC RECORD
This year could be different.
Malcolm Delaney, guard 10-6
age 1.24 times per game.
“You play in this league, your goal The Hokies also welcome fresh- the heart in August after fainting at HEAD COACH
is to go to the NCAA Tournament,” man Jarell Eddie from Charlotte. a preseason workout in April. Seth Greenberg
head coach Seth Greenberg said. Ranked as the No. 18 small forward The team’s depth was further STADIUM
“That’s our goal, plain and sim- in his class by Scout.com, Eddie depleted as senior sixth-man JT Cassell Coliseum
ple.” shows all the signs of being a solid Thompson suffered a torn ACL in PLAYERS TO WATCH
If expectations hold, the Hokies addition to the team. a September pick-up game, sidelin- Malcolm Delaney
will be invited to the dance for the “Jarell Eddie is going to be one of ing him for the season. Dorenzo Hudson
first time since 2007. The Hokies the best players on the team soon,” Virginia Tech’s remaining depth Jarell Eddie
are No. 21 in the AP preseason poll Delaney said. “He knows how to rests on the shoulders of sopho-
and a school-record second in the play the game and he’s coming more forward Cadarian Raines,
ACC preseason media poll. around very fast.” who spent the first ten days of Despite these setbacks, the
Greenberg enters his eighth sea- The Hokies looked forward to practice with his left foot in a pro- Hokies still expect to improve on
son as coach. All five starters from additional depth this season with tective boot after a second surgery last season’s 25-9 effort.
the previous season that yielded a transfer redshirt sophomore Allan in April. “I like our team,” Greenberg
trip to the NIT quarterfinals also Chaney, who would have become “A key for our team is going said. “We’ve got good guards,
returned this season. eligible this season. But the team to be Cadarian Raines’ health,” we’ve got depth in the perimeter.
Senior shooting guard Malcolm will have to make do without the Greenberg said. “If Cadarian It’s whether we’ll be able to post dth file photo
Delaney led the ACC in scoring last 6-foot-9 forward as he was diag- Raines can get healthy, then we’ve defend and rebound with our Virginia Tech returns five starters from a team that went 23-8 last year.
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Cavaliers deal with youth Miami, Haith will rely on Scott
by jonathan larowe
staff writer
In his first season with the
Virginia Cavaliers, coach Tony
Bennett saw improvement with
his team winning five more games
than the previous year.
But injuries and departures
of key players could leave the
Cavaliers dangerously thin come
opening day.
Junior guard Sammy Zeglinski
will miss up to eight weeks after
surgery to repair cartilage in his left
knee. Zeglinski led the Cavaliers
in 3-pointers, assists and steals in
each of the past two seasons.
“We were young with him, and
now we’re extremely young without
him,” Bennett said at ACC Media
Day.
This is a huge loss for a team
that already has to deal with
the departure of leading scorer
Sylven Landesberg, who was not
drafted by the NBA, and transfers
by guards Jeff Jones and Tristan
Spurlock.
But the Cavaliers were able to
upset Boston College in the first
round of the ACC Tournament and
were able to hold eventual national
champion Duke to its lowest point
total of the season in a 57-46 quar-
terfinal loss. The Cavaliers accom-
plished this without Landesberg,
who was suspended late in the
season.
Coming off a 15-16 overall record
last season and a 5-11 record in
conference play, the Cavaliers will
need to lean heavily on the return-
ing upperclassmen.
Senior guard Mustapha
Farrakhan preached the impor-
tance of mentoring the younger
players on the team.
“We try to speak words of life to
the young guys because they don’t
know what to expect and just keep
encouraging them to get better
and they respond well to that,”
Farrakhan said.
Bennett is still deciding who
will start at point guard for the
Cavaliers.
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held UNC to under 36 percent shooting in the visitor’s 75-60 victory.
He also pointed to senior Mike
Scott as a key player for them
this upcoming season. A three-
year starter, Scott led the team
in rebounding and is the leading
returning scorer.
“He showed some terrific flashes
last year,” Bennett said. “This year,
he’ll be a marked man and han-
dling that will take a steadiness
about him.”
Bennett knows that his team is
young and said the ability of the
younger players to handle the rig-
ors upon them will be crucial.
“If they can, and we have some
stability from our returners, I think
there’s a chance for us to be very
solid,” Bennett said. “But that’s a
big if.”
Basketball 2010-11
by Ryan Davis
staff writer
The 2010-11 season looks to be
a good one for the University of
Miami despite losing its top two
scorers from last season.
The most acute of those losses
is Dwayne Collins, the 60th pick
in April’s NBA Draft, who led the
team in points, rebounds and field
goal percentage last season.
Most of those hopes sit upon the
shoulders of sophomore Durand
Scott. An ACC All-Rookie team
selection last season, Scott will lead
an inexperienced team returning
only three players who averaged 20
minutes or more a year ago.
Coach Frank Haith, now in his
seventh season at Miami, had high
praise of Scott at ACC media day.
“He’s only a sophomore and he’ll
going to be one of the best guards
in this league, and I think eventu-
ally he’ll be one of the best players
in this league,” Haith said. “He’s
that good.”
Scott is poised for a breakout
campaign as one of the ACC’s
brightest stars after finishing his
freshman campaign in Miami’s
top three in scoring, rebounding
dth File photo
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and assists.
The team will also look for junior
point guard Malcolm Grant to play
an increased role in its offense.
For the Hurricanes to be success-
ful against ACC competition this
season, Grant will have to improve
Miami
the 1.77:1 assist-to-turnover ratio RECORD ‘09-’10
he posted as a sophomore. 20-13
Grant and forward Adrian ACC RECORD
Thomas, the only player with more 4-12
than junior-level experience, should HEAD COACH
provide a more-than-capable outside Frank Haith
threat for the Hurricanes that will STADIUM
give Scott room to drive and make BankUnited Center
plays against opposing defenses. PLAYERS TO WATCH
“(Thomas) is like a guard play-
Durand Scott
ing in the post because he can help DeQuan Jones
stretch the defense because he’s
Rion Brown
such a great shooter,” Haith said.
Sophomore center Reggie
Johnson and junior forward position, he’s just got to be a great
DeQuan Jones will also be interest- wedger,” Haith said. “You’re going
ing to watch in Miami this season. to have good things happen. You’re
Johnson, the team’s 300-pound either going to score or you’re going
anchor in the paint, should put to get fouled.”
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was the team’s second-leading him one of the most dynamic play-
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New coach Brownell, Stitt to lead Clemson
by leah campbell
staff writer
There’s a new sheriff in town
in Clemson, S.C., and he’s not just
taking over another program. He’s
taking over the O.P.P. — Oliver
Purnell’s Posse.
Much like the Clemson students
will have to reorganize under a new
nickname at Littlejohn Coliseum,
new head coach Brad Brownell
will be forced to merge his teach-
ing format with the honed styles of
Purnell’s players.
“The first thing from the last five
or six years with Oliver is just we
won’t be pressing on every dead
ball and every basket made defen-
sively,” Brownell said at ACC Media
Day. “The speed of the game prob-
ably won’t be as fast.”
The Tigers finished the 2009-
2010 campaign with a 21-11 overall
record, going 9-7 in the ACC. The
team’s lackluster season ended
with a first-round knockout in the
NCAA Tournament.
“We would like to have a little
more shooting,” Brownell said. “We
would like to be able to stretch the
defense a little more. That’s some-
thing we’ve got to get better at.
Guys have got to begin to shoot the
ball better for us to be better.”
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2 guard will be the nucleus of
Clemson’s offense.
But with last year’s 6-foot-7 for-
ward leading scorer Trevor Booker
gone to the pros, senior Stitt will
have to take more difficult offen-
sive shots, especially from outside
the paint.
“Demontez is a good player,”
Brownell said. “He’s a tough com-
petitor. I think he has good skills.
His outside shot needs to continue
to get better. He shot a better per-
centage last year, but I think he got
to shoot a lot of easier shots based
on having Trevor for kick-out open
threes.”
“I’m hoping he’ll be able to make
more difficult shots,” Brownell said.
“He needs to be able to do that to
help us win.”
The Tigers may struggle offen-
sively with shots taken beyond the
arc. However, clutch players like
senior Jerai Grant have the abil- dth File Photo
ity to step up when the team needs Demontez Stitt will run the point
redeeming. for the Tigers this season, but will
With 119 career blocks — eighth miss the help of last year’s lead-
in the program’s history — Grant ing scorer, 6-foot-7 Trevor Booker.
has the capacity to grab key offen-
sive rebounds and finish strong.
“The other team will have to
move the ball more and take more
time to get a shot,” Brownell said.
After seven years of the O.P.P.,
Littlejohn Coliseum is ushering in Clemson
a new regime. Though Brownell’s
RECORD ‘09-’10
following has yet to be dubbed, the
new head man remains confident
21-11
that the students have a plan of ACC RECORD
action. 9-7
“I’m sure the students will do HEAD COACH
something,” Brownell said. “The Brad Brownell
students are pretty creative. I STADIUM
haven’t been let in on any secrets Littlejohn Coliseum
of what the names (of the new stu- PLAYERS TO WATCH
dent section) may be and I couldn’t Demontez Stitt
begin to give you a guess, but I do dth File photo
Jerai Grant
think we’ll have something going Cory Stanton Dexter Strickland and other driving guards may not have their way in Clemson’s paint this season with Jerai
on down there.” Grant returning. Grant is ranked eighth in Clemson history in blocked shots with 119 career rejections.
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Yellow Jackets continue without Favors, Lawal

by R. Thomas cocca
staff writer
With the help of Derrick Favors
and Gani Lawal, Georgia Tech
streaked through the ACC tour-
nament last year, falling just four
points short of taking down even-
tual NCAA champion Duke in the
tournament final.
As a No. 10 seed in the NCAA
tournament, the Yellow Jackets
upset Oklahoma State 64-59 before
being outmatched by Ohio State in
the second round.
Now, Lawal and Favors are in the
NBA — Favors as the third overall
pick — and college basketball prog-
nosticators aren’t overly impressed
with the team they left behind. The
Jackets have found themselves in
the bottom half of most ACC pre-
season polls.
“We’re going to be different this
year,” coach Paul Hewitt said at
ACC Media Day. “I think if we tried
to play the style we played last year,
it would be tough.”
Georgia Tech enters the season
with just three true post players.
Nate Hicks, a true freshman from
Panama City Beach, Fla., joins red-
shirt freshmen Kammeon Holsey
and Daniel Miller to form the
Yellow Jackets’ thin frontcourt.
Rather than lamenting the loss
of the team’s big men, Hewitt is
salivating over the new dynamic of
his roster.
“You just see with the more
space to operate how tough we’re
going to be to guard,” he said. “It
should make us much more diffi-
cult to defend than last year.”
The Yellow Jackets’ roster lists 11
guards compared to two forwards
and centers each.
Still, the hole left by the depart-
ed big men is undeniable. Last
year, with Lawal and Favors under
the basket, Georgia Tech finished
the season ranked third in the ACC
in rebounding offense and third in
blocked shots.
Hewitt’s players know that even
if they can manage a high-octane
attack, the absence of Lawal and
Favors in the paint will make
defense and rebounding areas of
concern.
“Last year was just pressure,
pressure, pressure, and if a guy
gets by you, you’ve got shot block-
ers,” junior point guard Iman
Shumpert said. “Now it’s more
pressure, pressure, pressure, if he
gets beat, help him. We don’t have
that shot blocker to come across
the lane.” Georgia Tech
Senior guard Maurice Miller
RECORD ‘09-’10
echoed his teammate.
“It’s a team effort, now,” Miller 22-12
said. “We don’t have them big ACC RECORD
guys down there where you can 7-9
just send the guards down there, HEAD COACH
they block it and then we take off Paul Hewitt
running.” STADIUM
Hewitt said that an experienced Alexander Memorial Coliseum
team will key Georgia Tech’s suc- PLAYERS TO WATCH
cess this year — Shumpert, Miller, Iman Shumpert
Mfon Udofia, Glen Rice Jr. and Glen Rice Jr.
Brian Oliver all return after play- Maurice Miller
ing significant minutes for GT last
year — and will help overcome the
loss of playmakers. tance of approaching the season
“(The returning players) have with the right mind-set.
tangible knowledge,” Hewitt said. “The key to improving is not
“It’s not about me telling them trying to make up for the loss of
something. They know. They Gani Lawal and Derrick Favors,”
have experience that some teams he said. “What we need to do is
don’t.” just embrace our new game plan,
As Hewitt tries to perfect the embrace our new team, embrace
Xs and Os of his new-look roster, what Coach is preaching to us and
Shumpert emphasized the impor- we’ll be fine.”

dth File Photo

6-foot-5 Glen Rice Jr. is one of 11 guards on the Georgia Tech roster
after the team lost big men Derrick Favors and Gani Lawal this year.

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Jackson leads
same BC team
by Aaron Taube
Assistant Sports Editor
Boston College finished last sea-
son eighth in the ACC standings
and ninth in scoring offense, scor-
ing defense and turnover margin. Boston College
This year’s squad has a new
RECORD ‘09-’10
coach and virtually the same ros-
ter as the team that went 15-16 in
15-16
2009-10, but the Eagles are the ACC RECORD
odds-on favorites to lead the league 6-10
in optimism. HEAD COACH
“We were the team in the ACC Steve Donahue
that underachieved the most, STADIUM
I feel like,” senior forward Joe Conte Forum dth File Photo
Trapani said at ACC Media Day. “I PLAYERS TO WATCH Tyler Zeller has suffered two injuries in two seasons at UNC. Roy
just think we had a ton of talent. Joe Trapani Williams will need the junior to stay healthy due to a thin bench.
Instead of being 6-10, I thought we Reggie Jackson

could have been 10-6. Realistically,
we just kind of gave games away.”
It’s a mentality that starts at the
top with new coach Steve Donahue,
who takes over the reins from Al
Skinner, the winningest coach in
BC history. Donahue was last seen
guiding a senior-laden Cornell
team to its third consecutive Ivy
League title and the second Sweet
Sixteen in program history.
Though Donahue acknowledg-
es his team’s lack of depth in the
wake of swingman Rakim Sanders’
transfer to Fairfield, he thinks the
experience of his eight seniors
will pay off as it did last season in
Ithaca, N.Y.
The Eagles’ front court should
be the team’s strength. The unit
is led by small forward Trapani, a
fifth-year senior who led the team
with 14.1 points per game and
6.4 rebounds last season. He’ll be
joined in the starting lineup by a
pair of seniors in 263-pound center
Josh Southern and forward Corey
Raji, whose 3.1 offensive rebounds
per game last year ranked third in
the ACC.
Shooting guard Reggie Jackson
will anchor the backcourt and look
to progress from a sophomore sea-
Frontcourt to rely
Corey Raji
son in which he was second on the
team with 12.9 points per game;
however, Jackson shot a dismal 29
percent on 110 3-point attempts. If
the work Jackson has put in during dth File Photo
on Henson, Zeller
the offseason on his outside shot
yields any improvement, he could
Forward John Henson has added 20 pounds to his freshman frame. He
grabbed 4.4 rebounds per game for the Tar Heels last season.
UNC turns to improved post players
be in line for All-ACC honors.
by kevin minogue
“Reggie Jackson is athletic as
anybody in America,” Donahue said. staff writer
“Obviously I haven’t been in this Tipping the scales at 210
pounds, John Henson will be one
league, but if there’s more athletic,
full-package guards than Reggie of the lightest big men in college
basketball this season. He’ll also be
Jackson, then I want to see them.”
But outside of Jackson, the team among those who have packed on
the most pounds since 2009.
lacks ACC-caliber athletes. If the
Eagles are to make a move into At this time a year ago, Henson’s
the top half of the ACC standings, toothpick-like, 6-foot-10 frame was
reinforced by a mere 190 pounds
they’ll have to do it by outworking
the opposition. — just 10 pounds heavier than
“I think the only way we can Tar Heel point guard Larry Drew
compete with the Dukes and North II. As a result, Henson rarely ven-
Carolinas is if we’re more physi- tured into the low post offensively,
cally fit than them because we’re instead relying on his length and
not going to get as good an athlete, athleticism to slash for scores from
I’m pretty sure of that,” Donahue the perimeter.
said. “But if we can do that with But with four UNC big men
our toughness and our skill and departed after last season, and
all that, then we have a chance at junior Tyler Zeller the only other
competing.” returning Tar Heel listed above
6-foot-4, Henson spent the off-
season preparing to take on more
duties between the blocks.
“I lifted four days a week, ate
as much as I could and slept right
after I ate,” Henson said. “I had a
lot of Chipotle.”
The result is a 20 pounds heft-
ier Henson in 2010, whose extra
girth will be a needed addition to
a UNC frontcourt that has been
dth File Photo depleted by attrition over the past
Both Henson and Zeller will miss Will Graves’ presence in the post few months.
this season after the senior was dismissed from the team in October. Both Deon Thompson and Ed
“I lifted four days
a week, ate as
much as I could
and slept right
after I ate.”
John Henson, UNC forward
Davis, UNC’s top two in scoring
and rebounding last season, have
moved on to the professional ranks,
while promising freshmen David
and Travis Wear opted to transfer
following the 2009 school year.
The Tar Heels sustained an
additional gut punch when senior
forward Will Graves was dismissed
from the team in October, remov-
ing the team’s lone scholarship
senior and only true returning
inside-outside threat.
“We spent so much time this
summer thinking about hav-
ing Will as a 4-man, and what a
matchup problem that would be
for the other team because their
4-man, probably bigger, is going
to have to come out a long way
to find Will,” UNC coach Roy
Williams said.
“(Now) we’ve had to throw some
of those things that we were think-
ing out the window.”
The loss of Graves leaves Henson,
Zeller and Alabama transfer Justin
Knox as the only elements of a tal-
ented but paper-thin frontcourt for
North Carolina.
Though Henson’s improved
strength should refine his finishing
at the rim and help him improve
on his 4.4 rebounds per game in
2009, UNC will expect Zeller to
provide the team’s main presence
in the paint.
The 7-foot Zeller has proven a
capable contributor in his fresh-
man and sophomore campaigns,
but injury problems have inter-
rupted each of his first two seasons
in Chapel Hill.
Last season, Zeller was part of
highly touted frontcourt that strug-
gled to produce consistently thanks
to injuries to five UNC big men.
This year, North Carolina will
lean heavily on the Washington,
Ind., native, who is primed for a
big year as the No. 1 option down
low. Both he and Henson should
be able to present a considerable
frontcourt threat for the guard-
heavy Tar Heels.
But even with Knox expected to
provide some help on the boards
and in post defense, an injury to
Zeller or another member of the
Tar Heels’ front line would leave
UNC desperately shorthanded
on the low blocks, threatening to
derail the Tar Heels’ lofty goals for
the second consecutive season.
“We can turn it around a lot this
year,” Zeller said.
“We have the talent and ability,
so we have to put it all together.”
The Daily Tar Heel
Kendall Marshall gives North Carolina a true point guard. He will
have to fight for playing time against incumbent starter Larry Drew II.
Freshman trio brings potential to UNC
Barnes, Bullock and Marshall debut
by mark thompson
Assistant Sports Editor
Potential: for most of North
Carolina’s past freshmen classes,
it’s a measure of what could be.
For this year’s class, it’s a mea-
sure of what will be.
The “Big” three youngsters are
headlined by forward Harrison
Barnes, a skilled wing player who
has already drawn comparisons
with Kobe Bryant and Kevin
Durant, who is already a favorite to
win this season’s NBA MVP award
at the age of 22.
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“Harrison has one thing that
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Roy Williams said. “He’s just got
tremendous discipline, tremen-
dous focus, tremendous desire …
and he’s willing to do those little
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“At this point, I’ve never been
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Defense key for Florida State Terps fill hole

All-ACC Singleton leads Seminoles
by Alexandra Chabolla
staff writer
Last season, Florida State
coach Leonard Hamilton mold-
ed the strongest defense in the
ACC, which compensated for the
league’s 10th-ranked offense and
earned them third place overall in
the ACC.
FSU led the ACC in scoring
defense with 60.4 points per game
and on average 6.3 blocked shots
per game in its 2009-10 campaign.
But this season the Seminoles will
be without the ACC’s leading shot-
blocker, Solomon Alabi.
With the Seminoles picked to
finish fifth in the ACC, the back-
court of Derwin Kitchen, Michael
Snaer and Deividas Dulkys will be
bolstered by freshman recruit Ian
Miller.
Hamilton brought on Miller, a
Charlotte native and point guard,
in hopes that he will bring a new
wind to a struggling veteran
offense.
“The point guard play is more
important,” Hamilton said at ACC
Media Day. “Last year with the
development of Deividas, Chris
(Singleton) and Mike (Snaer) on
the wings, it highlighted some of
the issues that our point guards
had. I think overall as a team, we
have not been as sound funda-
mentally as we would like to have
been.”
Senior guard Kitchen aver-
aged 8.1 points per game, but that
should improve with the addition
of a skilled distributor such as
Miller.
“We’re going to be better because
Florida State
RECORD ‘09-’10
22-9
ACC RECORD
10-6
HEAD COACH
Leonard Hamilton
STADIUM
Tucker Center
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Derwin Kitchen
Chris Singleton
Ian Miller
we have a lot of players coming
back and people understand-
ing and maturing from last year,”
Kitchen said. “We’re really going to
clean up our offense this year.”
Junior forward Singleton, the
reigning ACC defensive player of
the year, earns recognition as part of
the preseason All-ACC First Team.
Last year, he led the ACC with 2.2
steals per game and ranked fifth in
blocks with 1.5 a game.
“We definitely have a better rota-
tion, more bodies to fill in at every
position,” Singleton said. “Every
position, I feel like we can go at
least two or three deep so it’s going
to be a great team.”
Hamilton has proven he can take
teams to the NCAA Tournament,
but the Seminoles must maximize
their athletic potential. Leaders
like Singleton will need to emerge
Florida State is hoping its physical brand of play will lead the Seminoles
to the top of the ACC. FSU led the league in scoring defense last year.
on the court in order to make a
return trip to the Big Dance.
“I don’t think anybody is yet to
see our full potential,” Singleton
said. “And I think it’s going to be
vital and we’re going to show it this
year.”
dth file photo
FSU has capable players in the
backcourt, especially with the addi-
tion of Miller.
The Seminoles’ offense has
potential, but Singleton will need
to live up to his preseason status for
FSU to best its 2010 record.
left by Vasquez
by Chris Moore
staff writer
For the past four years, Maryland
hasn’t needed to search for a go-to
star. But the departure of Greivis
Vasquez, last year’s ACC Player of Maryland
the Year, forced the Terrapins into
RECORD ‘09-’10
a hole entering this basketball sea-
son.
23-8
While that gap may be too big ACC RECORD
for one player to fill, coach Gary 13-3
Williams feels two of his returners HEAD COACH
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“This will be a different team,” he STADIUM
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Sean Mosley.” Sean Mosley
Sophomore forward Jordan Mychal Parker
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the conference last season. Rivals.com. Parker’s versatility pro-
“Jordan is a stud down low,” vides raw skills and athleticism to
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to counter what the Terrapins lost who will play point guard.
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“That gives us two pretty good- at the point,” Gary Williams said.
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Wake Forest may have a demon of a time

Picked to finish
last in conference
by brandon moree
staff writer
The Demon Deacons will depend
on a young lineup and a new coach
this season.
A new head coach will have to
find a way to replace the 66 percent
of the team’s points scored last year
by players no longer in Winston-
Salem.
Sophomore guard C.J. Harris is
the only returning starter for the
Demon Deacons, now led by Jeff
Bzdelik. Bzdelik was named head
coach after Dino Gaudio was dis-
missed in the offseason.
“(Gaudio) did a great job, and
a change was made,” Bzdelik said.
“There’s a lot of different ways to
coach. There’s a lot of different
ways to explain things. No one has
the right way, we just do the best
we can.”
The Demon Deacons made it
to the second round of the NCAA
Tournament last year before falling
to Kentucky, but the team will have
to replace the two leading scorers
from last year.
The Demon Deacons will look to
their highly talented freshman class
Wake Forest
RECORD ‘09-’10
23-9
ACC RECORD
9-7
HEAD COACH
Jeff Bzdelik
STADIUM
Lawrence Joel Coliseum
PLAYERS TO WATCH
C.J. Harris
Gary Clark
J.T. Terrell
to replace point guard Ishmael lower than they have been any
Smith and the leading rebounder
in the ACC last season, Al-Farouq
Aminu. Aminu was the eighth
overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft
after being selected to the All-ACC
second team last season.
Bzdelik is no stranger to
rebuilding programs. In 2007-
2008, Bzdelik took control of the
Colorado Buffaloes that managed
only seven wins the year before.
Last season, Bzdelik led the
Buffaloes to a 15-16 record.
During his tenure in the NBA,
Bzdelik took the Denver Nuggets to
the playoffs in 2004 after winning
only 17 games in the 2002-2003
season. The 26-game improvement
was the sixth-best turnaround in
the history of the NBA.
Led by sharpshooter J.T. Terrell
from Burlington and 6-foot-7
swingman Travis McKie, Wake
Forest’s freshman class is ranked
as the 13th in the country, accord-
ing to Scout.com.
“Once he steps onto the court, he
can shoot it,” Harris said of his new
teammate Terrell. “Right when he
crosses half court, I think he can
knock it down.”
Despite the highly touted fresh-
men, Wake Forest is still picked to
finish last in the ACC.
“Our expectations aren’t any
other year,” senior Gary Clark said.
“We expect to win, we expect to
compete and just make every game
a great competition.”
Clark, who averaged 3.2 points
and 9.3 minutes per game last year,
is the only scholarship senior on
the team.
Of the returning players, Harris
and sophomore for ward Ari
Stewart are the leading scorers.
Harris averaged just less than 10
points per game and Stewart added
7.3 points per game.
This Wake Forest team has
strong, young talent on the perim-
eter, but Bzdelik is focusing on
defense and intensity.
“He’s real big on defense,” Harris
said. “Talking, getting your feet mov-
ing, stuff like that. That’s one thing
he really stresses emphasis on.”

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