In Rashad they trust
Good reading in two issues arriving Thursday: Ed Hardin's column in the News & Record and Sports Illustrated on UNC basketball star Rashad McCants.
It's been interesting to see the schools of thought. Ex-coaches-turned-ESPN-analysts Digger Phelps and Mike Jarvis both say the Tar Heels have too many chemistry problems to even reach the Final Four. Yet SI picks them No. 1 and puts McCants on the cover. And Ed says he's "the one player who can turn this into the breakout season they’ve been waiting for since the old man retired."
The biggest revelation for those in this business in North Carolina wasn't what Julius Hodge called him at the scorer's table. It's that SI got three hours with him in his apartment. Must be nice!
So are they the nation's best team, or still a flawed one?