2008 – 2009 UNC Basketball season
December 1, 2008
The 2008 – 2009 UNC Basketball season came out of the gates with fans having some high expectations. The team was the first ever to be a unanimous AP and ESPN/USA Today poll #1 team. For a team that is returning all five of tis starters, most of whom would make an impact on an NBA team immediatately, this could be the best season in what has been many great seasons.
Head Coach Roy Williams will have to put the pieces together to make sure his team does what it is supposed to. But with the players he has, that shouldn’t be a problem. Some of the players Williams has to work with include the Consensus National Player of the Year in Tyler Hansbrough, who never entered the draft last year. Hansbrough could be one of the best college basketball players ever. He has already won the Associated Press Player of the Year Award, the Oscar Robertson Trophy, the National Association of Basketball Coaches Player of the Year Award, the Sporting News Player of the Year Award, the John R. Wooden Award and the Naismith College Player of the Year Award. Joining this elite player are a few more elite players, Wayne Ellington, Danny Green and Ty Lawson, all of whom entered the draft but later withdrew. That gives UNC backetball four player that are likely NBA ready, and gives them experience, power, speed and size that no other team in college basketball can match.
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