These teams may be able to overcome UNC

Here's some inspiration courtesy of Mike DeCourcy.

Louisville? You just know Rick Pitino's got one more big one in him, don't you? More than a decade has passed since he coached the greatest NCAA basketball team of the post-Wooden era, 1996 Kentucky, to his only championship. And now he's got • well, he's got a very promising team. But it's a team with still the same basic issue in place as existed one year ago.

Is the point guard play good enough to produce a title?

Will the point guard, whether it's Andre McGee or Edgar Sosa, need to lead the team as well as run it? There's not a David Padgett around to lead the Cardinals. Forward Terrence Williams certainly is a talker, but is he a leader?

And there's one more thing: The guy who needs to elevate this team from Elite Eight level to three more huge victories, Earl Clark, averaged 11 points last year. That's not going to get it done. If he doesn't have another five to seven per game in him, the Cards will not catch Carolina.

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It will even be difficult for Carolina to win it. I know we’ve talked about all those land mines out there…now they’ve got all the guys back who turned away from the draft…pregnant with confidence…a lot expected from them…maybe a different kind of pressure and the crown will rest uneasy…overripe…and who is to say that Hansbrough might not be a little stale?...can he be that maniacle, relentless, crazed rebounding put-back machine one more time? Maybe, but then again, maybe he will be more human this time around.

And the karma gods will punnish Roy for leaving Kansas (where he could have had his own “Carolina,”) where maybe he could have made his own dinasty. Instead he was “called home” to replace the irreplaceable, leaving the burghers of Lawrence bereft, but now with the same number of championships he has won with the Tarheels.

by Roz on Aug 6, 2008 9:23 PM EDT reply actions