Stars Come Out in Chapel Hill

Via J.E. Skeets at Ball Don’t Lie:

This isn’t exactly college basketball “news,” but what the hell? It’s September and colleges around the country (even Kentucky, UCLA, and other basketball powers) are focused on football right now. Shoot, even the basketball players are probably focused on college football. And unfortunately, college basketball players are restrained by the nature of the system--team trumps individual, lots of weird rules, overbearing coaches, “class”--from creating the sort of zany off-court stories that NBA players specialize in this time of year.

So instead of straining to turn some piece of minutiae into a college basketball story... Look at the game that went down in Chapel Hill this past weekend. Interspersed with a collection of NBA stars (Vince Carter, Antawn Jamison, Rasheed Wallace, Ray Felton, Jerry Stackhouse) were some greatest hits of quintessential college stars (Ed Cota, Shammond Williams, Jackie Manuel, Jawad Williams). That they’re all part of the family at North Carolina might explain why that program has been so successful over the past 15 years. And, I imagine, it made for a hell of a game.