Can UNC Go Undefeated?

TucsonClip · Nov 10, 2008

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Andrew Skwara
Rivals.com College Basketball Staff Writer
<SCRIPT language=javascript>document.write("<div id=contentcontainer style='font-size: " + currentsize + "pt;'>");</SCRIPT>» MORE: North Carolina season preview | Rivals.com preseason top 65
Rivals.com has selected the top 25 story lines for the 2008-09 season and revealed one daily. At No. 1, we look at heavy national title favorite North Carolina and its chances of being the first team in 33 years to go undefeated.
Nowhere on the lengthy list of North Carolina's lofty goals for this season is there any mention of going undefeated. Tar Heels coach Roy Williams doesn't want his players to even entertain the notion.
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You can't blame Williams for that attitude. He was coaching in high school the last time a team managed to make it through an entire season without a single blemish on its record. That was in 1975-76 when Indiana went 32-0. There were only 32 teams in the NCAA tournament at the time.
Whether Williams wants to talk about it or not, the Tar Heels may have the best chance of going undefeated of any team since the Hoosiers found perfection. All five starters return from a team that went 36-3 and reached the Final Four. That includes senior big man Tyler Hansbrough, the first Associated Press national player of the year to return to school in 16 years (LSU's Shaquille O'Neal was the last to do it in 1991-92). The Tar Heels even have the nation's top sixth man, senior swingman Danny Green, back this season.
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