Vaunted North Carolina comes to town Saturday at Noon to face the Wahoos, who are coming off their finest shooting-percentage performance-wise since 1985. The last time out, Tony Bennett’s crew demolished Howard University, and Mustapha Farrakhan was on a mission as he scored thirty-one points.
North Carolina has struggled so far this season with their guard rotation, but they have already beaten slimy John Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats this season. Carolina has yet to find their identity yet as a team, but should be heavy favorites Saturday afternoon at the JPJ, and are also becoming the team that just might get the Heels back to NCAA glory.
Duke is really the only team in the ACC that is anywhere near playing their best game yet, but Carolina has talent, and they are Carolina of course! Being Carolina, they most likely travel with a Morehead Scholar that polishes their NCAA and ACC Championship trophies daily. Yes, I have trophy envy…
Carolina scores nearly eighty-one points per game, and they play a completely different game than the Wahoos. Virginia scores at a snail’s pace, chipping in sixty-four points per game.
Mike Scott is still out for the Hoos, and they just might shut him down for the rest of the 2010-11 season if his ankle does not respond to the therapy he is undergoing. Scott has the option to ask the NCAA for a medical fifth-year waiver, and I’d sure love to see him play with James Johnson next season.
Virginia can win this game if they improve their shot selection, and find someone on this team that can take the ball to the hole. Freshman K.T. Harrell (10.3 PPG) should be that guy, and he is having an excellent first-season at Virginia, but he has only played one conference game, and there is a long season ahead of him.
UNC is led by Tyler Zeller, Harrison Barnes, and John Henson, but they have a roster of guys that can kill you on the court.
Prediction? Hoos 57 Heels 73. Does anyone else think that Carolina’s coach looks like the non-blue version of Huckleberry Hound?
