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BY POWELL LATIMER
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Senior North Carolina forward
Danny Green said he had one ques
tion after hearing of Kentucky’s
103-111 loss to heavy underdog
VMI on Saturday.
“Was anyone playing defense?”
A valid question, especially
given that Green’s Tar Heels face
that Kentucky team tonight.
But regardless of how poorly
Kentucky defended their open
ing opponent, the Tar Heels will
certainly be focusing their own
defense on slowing down Kentucky
forward Patrick Patterson.
Patterson’s numbers from KU’s
season-opener were not over
whelming eight points, seven
boards —but numbers can be
deceiving.
North Carolina and Roy
Williams remember all too clearly
the 19 points and nine rebounds
Patterson hung on the Tar Heels
as a freshman last year.
“Physically, he is extremely
imposing,” Williams said. “When
he posts you up down low, you stay
posted up. I mean, he can bury you
underneath the basket and you
cannot get around him.”
In fact, one of the biggest
anomalies in Kentucky’s box score
Saturday was that Patterson took
only four shots. That’s an anomaly
that UNC expects the Wildcats to
correct.
“I would bet that Patrick would
be much more of a factor in
(tonight’s) game,” Williams said.
“And they're probably going to do
a lot more things trying to focus
on him.”
And if Kentucky coach Billy
Gillispie needed any more impe
tus to look to the post, All-America
forward Tyler Hansbrough will
not play tonight, Williams said
Monday.
That makes Deon Thompson
Patterson’s primary defender, with
help from two freshman big men,
Ed Davis and Tyler Zeller.
“I’m pretty sure I’m going to be
the one guarding him,” Thompson
said. “And I’m going to accept it
and do the best I can.”
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So how will Thompson, nei
ther lauded for his defense nor
considered a liability, slow down
Kentucky’s best threat?
“Just wall him and make him
score over me,” Thompson said.
“That’s the best I can do is make
him score over me. Don’t pick up
silly fouls or foul him while you’re
trying to get position on him.”
When Thompson goes out,
Patterson also will provide the first
test down low for UNC’s two fresh
man forwards, Zeller and Davis.
Davis in particular could shore
up UNC’s rebounding woes, as the
Tar Heels out-rebounded under
sized Penn by only 10.
“I mean, he’s 6’10” and he can get
up off the floor,” Thompson said of
Davis. “He wants to rebound, and
I think that’s a big thing when you
try to rebound the ball is that you
have to have a want to do it. And he
definitely has that.”
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“He can bury you
underneath the
basket, and you
cannot get around
him. ”
ROY WILLIAMS, ON KU'S PATTERSON
And Williams is not hesitant to
test the skills of Davis and Zeller
against Kentucky even in a game
that serves as the centerpiece of
ESPN’s 24-hour College Hoops
Tip-Off Marathon.
“I think it is extremely impor
tant to get them as many minutes
as you can in game-type scenarios,”
Williams said. “We can’t simulate
in practice with Patrick Moody and
J.B. (Tanner) and those guys what
we’re going to face with Patrick
Patterson tomorrow night.”
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Breland shines in UNC rout
BY DANIEL PRICE
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
The post again dominated the
stat line from the onset for the
North Carolina women’s basket
ball team in its 102-68 demolition
of Kennesaw State.
Jessica Breland paced the team
with a game-high 19 points and
10 rebounds with just one missed
shot —but what a glorious missed
shot it was.
With six minutes remaining in
the game, Breland had a chance to
make history. On a breakaway with
no Lady Owls in sight, Breland
took a couple steadying dribbles
and launched herself from two feet
toward the basket, attempting to
become the second UNC women’s
player to dunk in a game.
It didn’t quite work out.
The ball came out of her hand on
the way up and rolled around the
rim as she yanked it down, falling
off the edge into the hands of Italee
Lucas, who in turn scored two of
UNC’s 25 second-chance points.
“I wish it was at the beginning
of the game, I probably would have
got it,” Breland said. “I was a little
tired. My legs were dead. ... It’s
easier when you’re catching it off
an alley, ’cause you’re basically just
pushing it in.”
Established North Carolina
starters Cetera DeGraffenreid,
Rashanda McCants, Iman
McFarland and Lucas were on the
bench to start the game after fin
ishing poorly in the Taj Heels’ last
game, a 77-65 win against Virginia
Commonwealth. But the new line
up didn’t slow down the Tar Heels
against Kennesaw State (1-1).
“Pretty much, it was more of
a wake-up call,” Lucas said. “We
didn’t do some things we should
have done in the first game.
Coming off the bench, that was
good for us.”
Apparently it was. Lucas had
a career-high 16 points and
DeGraffenreid dished a personal
best 10 assists.
The Tar Heels (3-0) shot 53 per
cent on the game, but even when
they did miss, it usually wasn’t
the end of the possession UNC
recorded offensive rebounds on 20
of the team’s 43 missed shots.
But UNC struggled to hold onto
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Jessica Breland led the Tar Heels with 19 points Monday and missed only one
shot what could have been the second dunk ever by a UNC woman.
the ball for portions of the game,
turning the ball over six times in
the first four minutes and ending
the game with 27-
“We had a lot that we shouldn’t
have had,” coach Sylvia Hatchell
said. “We’re going to have to look
at some of those ... But Kennesaw
State, they were quick. They were
athletic.”
She’la White, who started in
place of DeGraffenreid, never really
got in sync. She shot just l-of-6 and
had only one assist to go along with
two turnovers.
But she did well to walk off the
court after the game at all. With
8:21 remaining in the first half,
White got a breakaway opportu
nity and went up for a contested
lay-up.
Kennesaw State’s Jennifer Baker
wasn’t about to let her score, and
she met White in the air and
knocked her hard to the ground,
causing White’s head to bounce
hard off of the floor.
DeGraffenreid came in to shoot
the free throws, but White re
entered three minutes later no
worse for wear.
“She was fine. She said she didn’t
even feel her head,” Lucas said. “She
said her elbow hurt more than her
head. She’s a tough cookie.”
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