With the North Carolina Tarheels football team on a roll with eight straight wins, the beginning of the Tarheels basketball season started with not much fanfare or noise at all, even with the Tarheels basketball team ranked #1 in most preseason polls. The fans in Tarheel land have not been this excited about football since the Mack Brown era ended in 1997. If the Tarheels football teams wins out, which is a distinct possibility, they could enter the college football "postseason" at 11-1 with a chance to make some serious noise on the national scene.
The word out of the Tarheel basketball camp is "potential." At the beginning of any season, potential is a good word. At the end of the season, it is usually used in past tense and is the worst word in sports. Senior point guard and team leader marsus Paige has already broken his hand and will be out for the first month of the season. "Potential" fills out the rest of the roster.
For the first time in several seasons, North Carolina's roster will not be dominated by freshmen. There will be a good mix of upper classmen and the freshman class is only two strong and will more than likely not see much playing time.
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