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#22 UNC (14-4) v Notre Dame
7:00 Dean E. Smith Center
TV: ESPN2
Radio: 97.9 The Hill WCHL - Chapelboro.com
UNC Tar Heels:
#1 Kyan Evans P = 0, E = 95, I = 90, X = 45
#7 Seth Trimble P = 5, E = 5, I - 70, X = 35
#8 Caleb Wilson P = 15, E = 45, I = 45, X = 30
#44 Luka Bogavac P = 0, E = 80, I = 100, X = 50
#13 Henri Veesaar P = 55, E = 20, I = 55, X = 55
#15 Jarin Stevenson P = 15, E = 80, I = 95, X = 55
#11 Jonathan Powell P = 100, E = 60, I = 70, X = 85
#3 Derek Dixon P = 0, E = 50, I = 0, X = 0
#2 James Brown P = 55, E = 100, I = 85, X = 70
#1 Zayden High P = 35, E = 5, I = 40, X = 35
#4 Jaydon Young P = 80, E = 10, I = 0, X = 40
Coach Davis Wisdom = 95
Notre Dame Fighting Irish
#10 Jalen Haralson 6-7 Fr, 14.7 ppg, 3.5 rpg
#33 Carson Towt 6-8 Gr, 6.5 ppg, 9.9 rpg (N.Ariz)
#13 Sir Mohammed 6-6 So, 5.4 ppg, 2.7 rpg
#11 Braeden Shrewsberry 6-4 Jr, 11 ppg, 42.7% from Three
#02 Logan Imes 6-4 Jr, 4.3 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 35% from Three
#05 Cole Certa 6-5 So, 9.2 ppg 38.5% from Three
#06 Brady Koehler 6-8 Fr, 4.2 ppg, 2.1 rpg
#34 Matt. McClellan 6-9 Gr, 1.8 ppg, 1.5 rpg (Madonna NAIA)
#12 Garrett Sundra 6-11 So, 3.7 ppg, 3.4 rpg
Coach Shrewsberry
It was a bruising, revealing, disaster of a junket out west for Carolina. It is a stupid thing to do. The losses were bad ones and have clearly shaken the fan base in its many flavors. How that journey has fallen upon the players remains to be seen. From youngest, Caleb Wilson, Derek Dixon, and seldom seen Isaiah Denis to the oldest, Luke Bogavac, Jaydon Young, and Elijah Davis and all of the others in-between, Soul Searching is the watchword of the times. “Play Hard, Play Smart” was the slogan Coach Smith came up with and his teams lived it. In honor of Coach Williams, Coach Smith added, ‘Play Together.” Coach Smith said, "While we didn’t have a system at North Carolina, we certainly had a philosophy. It pretty much stayed the same from my first year as head coach. It was our mission statement, our strategic plan, our entire approach in a nutshell: Play hard, play smart, play together. Hard meant with effort, determination and courage; smart meant with good execution and poise, treating each possession as if it were the only one in the game; together meant playing unselfishly, trusting your teammates and doing everything possible not to let them down. That was our philosophy: We believed that if we kept our focus on those tenets, success would follow. Our North Carolina players seldom heard me or my assistants talk about winning. Winning would be the by-product of the process. There could be no shortcuts.
By sticking to our philosophy, we asked realistic things from our players. A player could play hard. He could play unselfishly and do things to help his teammates succeed. He could play intelligently. Those were all things we could control, and we measured our success by how we did in those areas." This is what we’re looking for from this team and all teams.
Frontcourt: Veesaar is above the 50-mark in physical and intel. Caleb Wilson is down. Jarin Stevenson has fire and brains. Should James Brown play he has good arcs. High is below middlin.
Wings: Bogavac is Einsteinian and full of spit and vinegar while Jonathan Powell has by far the best biorhythms on the team.
Guards: Evans and Trimble are smart guys tonight. Jaydon Young is physical. Derek Dixon has want-to.
Overall: No birthdates for Notre Dame. Building upon a trend, it seems that birthdays are being increasingly concealed. The way of the world I suppose. Otherwise, Notre Dame comes to Chapel Hill with a 10-8 record – along the way they’ve beaten Evansville, Missouri, Rutgers, and in a battle against pace, Stanford. They also have wins over Detroit Mercy, Bellarmine, and Long Island U. Their leading scorer is 6-7 Freshman Jalen Harelson at 14.7 and he is followed by coach’s son, Braeden Shrewsberry with 11.7 ppg. Shrewsberry and Imes and Certa are their Three-Point Men – but with current trends it does not appear to matter as to one’s actual record firing from distance as to whether hitting versus Carolina is possible. Carson Towt leads rebounding with 9.9 per game – he is one of only two players that are playing decent minutes that have come from other schools (he’s from N. Arizona, and fellow Graduate student Matt Maclellan hails from Madonna U). This is a struggling squad but one that has put up a fight this year – just not recently. All of that said, Carolina has pretty horrible biorhythms – meaning that playing hard, smart, and together is really the only alternative. They need to enter into this game and every game moving forward imagining that they have Zero Good Fortune and that their opponent will have buckets of it.
Gamblers call it Carolina by 11.5. Biorhythms have one particular angle from which to approach this one…There is considerable ‘want-to’ with these guys tonight and even more thinking. Those are the things that tend to lead to playing hard, playing smart, and, Coach Williams’ addition, playing together. Homecoming and watch the Tar Heels exceed expectations tonight and win by 12 plus.
