Basketball Star Seventh Woods Picks Tar Heels Over USC

“It’s hard. It’s hard”, Fedora said.

Williams has been hit by a blitzing defense 33 percent less this season, and with that extra time, he’s made those defenses pay.

Temple and North Carolina are meeting for the seventh time, but first in 24 years.

It was a mantra spoken over and over by players and coaches.

Williams’ best teams at UNC have been the ones with the best balance (not surprising).

Quarterback Marquise Williams threw for a school-record 494 yards and four touchdown passes in the win over Duke, the sixth time this season the Tar Heels have scored at least 38 points. An upset of the 23rd-ranked Tar Heels, who have won eight in a row and are a heavy favorite, will keep Miami, which has two conference losses, in the Coastal Division chase.

“That’s how we’ve got to look at it”, Pinson said. “That’s what’s exciting as a staff and as a team. We know he’s not there and we know what he’s going to give us when he gets back, but that gives us more experience”. “So it’s a big loss but it’s there, and everybody’s just got to pull together”. So much so, that many people thought he was just a one-trick pony that could just jump out of the gym. North Carolina is also pursuing a pair of five-star prospects who recently visited Chapel Hill, guard Rawle Atkins and center Udoka Azubuike. They’ve done a great job of that. “They have a lot of big play threats, so we have to eliminate the big plays and make them drive the field”. They haven’t played in a conference championship game since the league expanded in 2004. He was previously an assistant in high-powered offenses at in, Arizona and Texas Tech.

This was a good opening test for the Tar Heels – a Temple squad that went 26-11 last season and had won seven straight season openers.

If Carolina sets the pace, they have no problem covering the number, even without Paige in the lineup. With 977 yards rushing, he needs 368 to match Raymond Priester’s 19-year-old school single-season record. But it’s Williams’ leadership that’s improved the most and been so important, according to Fedora. “He understands the role”. The North Carolina Tar Heels will host the Miami Hurricanes at Keenan Stadium on Saturday with coverage on ESPNU starting at 3:30 PM ET. White said. “It made me smarter on the basketball court”.

“I think that’s given me the idea that I don’t want to deal with that this year”, Paige said.

A few players are more intense than others. “It was like a family”. I’ve talked about that with all of them. They were my responsibilities. Hopefully, this year ends a slightly differently than last year. “The guys like Sedee, who continue to say, ‘We’re in, ‘ allow us to continue to be excited about our program”. Whether it’s football or basketball, Temple is always being mentioned as a team on the rise. I was a little anxious.

A Springfield, Ill., native, the 31-year-old Burns had been an assistant at Wyoming for a season until he resigned in June. He was a tight ends coach under at Southern IL from 2008-09 and got his start in coaching overseeing running backs at Millersville (Pa.) University in 2007.

“I am very proud of him”. “Right now they’re out in front of the division, playing really good football”. That his absence forces other players to make the most of opportunities they otherwise wouldn’t have received. The Owls also have a head coach, Fran Dunphy, with 503 career wins and 15 NCAA Tournament appearances on their resume. They first met as assistants while recruiting in IL.