There is nothing quite like the start of the college basketball and college football seasons. I LOVE both these times of year!!! I always think that I would simply love to watch college basketball for 24 hours straight at the beginning of the year... it's just that exciting!Well, ESPN just finished 23 hours of continuous coverage - 14 conferences, 5 time zones, and featuring 3 of the 4 Final Four teams from last season!
Of course there was mainly ONE team that I cared about = the mighty mighty Carolina Tarheels! They're #1 in all the land in every poll imaginable! Only people smoking crack while sniffing something else at the same time would be crazy enough to have someone else in that #1 spot.
The Heels have an insane lineup. They ran all over Kentucky last night WITHOUT the King of college basketball = Psycho T... Tyler Hansbrough! (unanimous preseason choice for National Player of the Year... again!) They were also without injured Senior starter Marcus Ginyard! Crystal and I got home just in time to watch the whole game and it was SO MUCH FUN!!! Some people thought they could have some trouble without Hansbrough, their heart and soul, but after a few minutes of high flying dunks and awesome defense Carolina was up 15-2 on Kentucky! I'd say that was a good start to the game.
The voice of college basketball and my favorite announcer of all time - Dicky V - was calling the game! (I may have contributed to making that happen. No time to go into it now, but let me know if you're curious.) That made it even better BABY!!!
Besides the 2 starters, Hansbrough and Ginyard, the Tarheels are loaded! Their 8-10 guys are probably better than the 3-5 on ANY OTHER TEAM IN THE NATION! Go ahead and find me a 3-5 better than Carolina's 8-10. Which means the guys riding the bench for Carolina would start on any other team in the nation.
3 guys were going to leave for the NBA after last season but all decided to stay. We're talking guys like Ty Lawson = best point guard in the country! no doubt. He's so quick and can break down a defense better than anyone I've seen since Iverson. Wayne Ellington is undoubtedly THE PUREST SHOOTER in college basketball. But he's not just a shooter - evidenced by his posterizing dunk in the 1st half last night. Danny Green also decided to stay in school - he didn't even start for us last year!
Then you've got returning big man Deon Thompson who dominated last night with 20 points in Hansbrough's place. And the other big man - Freshman Tyler Zeller (#1 forward in High School last year) who dominated their 1st game against Penn last weekend with 18 points. What in the world is going to happen when Psycho T comes back??? Oh, and I almost forgot to mention - Ed Davis = the other Freshman big man who was a top 10 recruit this year. he's not too shabby either. (No wonder Junior Alex Stephenson transferred to USC... once he gets cleared to play he can start there, but at UNC he would have 4 bigs ahead of him!)
If Lawson (best PG in the land) goes down with injury again this year I'm pretty sure we'll be OK again with Bobby Frasor and top Freshman recruit Larry Drew! = that's 3 DIAPER DANDIES BABY!!! (quoting Vitale about Zeller, Davis, & Drew)
So, that's basically our fearsome 10. No wonder practices are so intense. It's really not fair that they have this much talent! They should be required to have 2 teams instead of 1. Now, I know that playing in the ACC it's next to impossible to go undefeated... but really, who can touch the Heels this year? Does any self respecting human really think Duke's squad can hold a torch to this Carolina team??? Barring crazy injuries to key people I just can't imagine anyone beating this team!
Translation = crazy fun season for Carolina fans!!!
(on a side note it was fun to watch Stephen Curry again late last night too! He put up 44 against Blake Griffin & Oklahoma! He's no joke & has got Davidson ranked this year. The college is just a couple miles from our house so I think Crystal and I will go watch them play a game or 2 this season.)
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