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#14 UNC (18-4) v dook (21-1)
6:30 Dean E. Smith Center
TV ESPN
Radio: 97.9 The Hill WCHL - Chapelboro.com
UNC Tar Heels:
#1 Kyan Evans P = 30, E = 30, I = 5, X = 15
#7 Seth Trimble P = 80, E = 75, I = 35, X = 55
#8 Caleb Wilson P = 20, E = 90, I = 55, X = 35
#44 Luka Bogavac P = 55, E = 50, I = 0, X = 25
#13 Henri Veesaar P = 100, E = 100, I = 50, X = 75
#15 Jarin Stevenson P = 20, E = 15, I = 10, X = 15
#11 Jonathan Powell P = 60, E = 10, I = 30, X = 45
#3 Derek Dixon P = 55, E = 20, I = 95, X = 75
#2 James Brown P = 100, E = 10, I = 10, X = 55
#1 Zayden High P = 100, E = 100, I = 70, X = 85
#4 Jaydon Young P = 5, E = 60, I = 100, X = 50
Coach Davis 5/17/70 Wisdom = 25
dook blue devils
12 Cam Boozer P = 0, E = 80, I = 70, X = 35
3 Isaiah Evans P = 90, E = 90, I = 100, X = 95
21 Patrick Ngongba P = 90, E = 5, I = 95, X = 90
1 Caleb Foster P = 70, E = 100, I = 5, X = 35
7 Dame Sarr P = 45, E = 0, I = 0, X = 20
14 Nikolas Khamenia P = 30, E = 90, I = 30, X = 30
6 Maliq Brown P = 50, E = 40, I = 55, X = 50
2 Cayden Boozer P = 0, E = 80, I = 70, X = 35
8 Darren Harris P = 100, E = 90, I = 5, X = 50
Jon Scheyer Wisdom = 5
A woman in my building (I’m in NYC right now) is a dookie. Sometimes she wears a sweatshirt saying so. We’re spoken. Of course she is originally from Long Island but interestingly her mother is a Tar Heel. And her son attends Carolina. That’s the way things get entangled and homes divided. My grandma Dunn was a dook fan as was my Uncle Doc. Grandma had managed to get work cleaning on that campus during a stint during The Great Depression when she and Grandpa had to leave the farm in #DeepChatham or starve. She felt some sort of gratitude after that toward ole Buck Duke’s College. Other North Carolinians have managed to wrangle connections with the place over the years but few of late can do so as alumni. And that gets to the crux of this thing: 15% of dook students and alumni over the past six decades have been born in North Carolina. About that same percentage have stuck around after their matriculation. UNC is, by legislation and birthright, a school FOR North Carolinians, native Tar Heels, and accordingly some 85% of the students and alumni have historically risen up from the very Appalachian dirt, red clay, sandhills, and swamps of The Old North State. In the interest of signs and omens I’ve been on the lookout for the Long Island Lady in the dook shirt sandwiched between Carolinians but to no avail. But yesterday while attending to my beat up old Toyota in the snow-plowed parking chaos here in the city I chanced to pull behind a car and upon looking up I was jarred by the sight of an NC License plate and a dook sticker. My boys, Prince and Maxie were with me for that parking excursion, and when we emerged to do the walk back to the building, Prince chanced to choose that very car as his substitute fire hydrant. I’ll take it. We’ll pass by that vehicle again this morning on our walk just for good measure.
Frontcourt: Caleb Wilson has Fire and Brains. Henri Veesaar has three good arcs. Jarin Stevenson is low. High has good looks.
Wings: Bogavac is a motivated man and Jonathan Powell has the physical.
Guards: Athletic and Lionhearted are good words to describe Seth Trimble and Derek Dixon is serious and strong. Jaydon Young has presence of mind and much spirit. Kyan Evans’ marks are below the fold.
Overall: The devils are formidable and undefeated in ACC play this season. They feature the Boozer twins (fraternal) Cam (6-9, 23.3 9.9 4apg 37.5% 3pt) and Cayden (6-4, 6.3 2.8apg, 31.4% 3pt), themselves the offspring of a dookie baller who starred for The Rat. Cam does it all and Cayden is the truest point guard on the team. And they’ve got two actual North Carolinians playing significant minutes in Isaiah Evans (6-6, 14.2, 36% 3pt - Fayetteville) and Caleb Foster (6-5, 8.7, 38.6% 3pt - Harrisburg). Filling out top minutes is Patrick Ngongba (6-11, 11.0, 8.2). Italian Dame Sarr (6-8, 5.6ppg) starts most times and is joined on the court by wing Darren Harris (6-5, 3.4ppg). Nikolas Khamenia (6-8, 5.7 33% 3pt) is a willing chucker and streak-shooter from distance. This year’s least likable dookie (a very high bar) is puller, pusher, and holder Maliq Brown (6-9, 5.3, 4.8rpg, 20% 3pt) – he’s a rare senior and comes originally from Syracuse.
What do you say about this type of contest? Looking at the rhythms there are few good ones…Evans and Ngongba have good arcs for dook and Caleb Foster’s motivation is high. Isaiah Evans is trouble. Veesaar and Dixon look plus-solid for Carolina. Trimble and Bogavac have highs and Powell is athletic, Young is fired up and smart. Caleb Wilson is positive and visionary. There is a lot of energy in the squad from derm. The Boozers and Caleb Wilson share birthdays and played AAU ball together, winning the Peach Jam Championship – so they are quite familiar with one another.
Gamblers have dook by 5.5 – Biorhythms quite remarkably stack up similarly. So it is up to the Fates and the Fans. Home court has meaning but how much?
Keep an eye out for blood...as always.
