Maryland at North Carolina

Familiar foes will clash Tuesday night in a battle between two top-10 teams. The seeding may not matter much, but many think Alabama and Oklahoma are the two best teams in the country, so getting them away from each other in a 2-3 semifinal would be interesting. Their next opponent will certainly pose a much stiffer task for them, however.

“That’s exactly what the crowd wanted me to do is make it a personal vendetta and get me out of my game”, Sulaimon said, “so I just tried to totally invest in our team and whatever the team needed me to do to help us win tonight”. The two will meet in Chapel Hill as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

That was UNC’s offensive balance at its finest and when all of the Tar Heel weapons are effective, this becomes a very hard team to guard. 1 and 2. Don’t let the numbers fool you. For NC fans, the MD game also marks the return of their floor leader who will be making his season debut.

Turgeon identified several key issues moving forward: He must create more depth at guard to avoid burning out Trimble (38 minutes) and Sulaimon (35 minutes) later this season. Paige even admitted that he was more nervous for this game than any he’d played in since his freshman season. Up front Carolina is huge with Justin Jackson, Brice Johnson and Kennedy Meeks.

The top-ranked Clemson Tigers (12-0) have one final hurdle to a playoff berth and a likely No. 1 seed: the streaking North Carolina Tar Heels (11-1) in Charlotte.

Selden was coming off a performance at the Maui Invitational that allowed him to share tournament MVP honors with teammate Frank Mason, who added 10 points, six rebounds, five assists and four steals against Loyola (1-6). His presence affected his team in ways large and small and the most noticeable difference, said Johnson, “was just his energy”. He’s another athletic guy, which could cause some problems for the Terps.

In that respect, Maryland was not alone Tuesday night.

CANCUN, MEXICO – The N.C. State Wolfpack posted a wire-to-wire 67-56 win over the UAB Blazers on Friday in their second game of the Cancun Challenge.

Either way, the Tar Heels figure they can do more.

Now both teams are 6-1. Ultimately, the team that is able to dominate in the paint and control the glass with come out with a victory. Perhaps the only question when it ended was this: Was it as good of a return as Paige envisioned?

Those were the 11 words tweeted two weeks ago by North Carolina senior quarterback Marquise Williams in the hours after UNC was given a lowly position in the College Football Playoff standings in one of the selection committee’s Tuesday night releases. Summers had 10 for the Tar Heels. They have performed well under pressure thus far in 2015.

Duhon played nine seasons in the NBA and was a member of Duke’s 2001 national championship team.

The anticipation is building and this game is not one that should disappoint. “I didn’t necessarily care about how many points I scored or anything like that, so I can’t say I played better than I thought I would”. The triple threat the Heels pose on the ground has lead to 230 yards per game, good for 18th in the nation, and can take over a game and cause major problems over the course of a game. “At every media day, every chance a reporter has, even after games somebody will ask about it. So it was tough on us, especially as people who came in and we didn’t think we had anything to do with it. I guess it would be nice to kind of move past that”.