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November 6, 2009 The new bowl alignment for the Atlantic Coast Conference will bring in the Sun Bowl and Independence Bowl. The most noticeable absence is the Gator Bowl. North Carolina men's basketball coach Roy Williams said he opened up more than he expected he would about his personal life in a recently published autobiography. Freshman Tierra Ruffin-Pratt led five Tar Heels in double figures as No. 5 North Carolina topped Division II Francis Marion 105-64. For North Carolina center Lowell Dyer, returning for the Virginia Tech game last Thursday after sitting out for the past six weeks with a shoulder injury was, in a word, "awesome." After starting the first game of the season against The Citadel on Sept. 5, the senior injured his shoulder during practice later that week and had been watching the Tar Heels' roller coaster season from the bench ever since. The Sun and Independence bowls are moving into the ACC bowl picture beginning next season, while the Gator, Emerald and GMAC bowls are moving out and the Champs and Meinke Car Care bowls are moving up. The conference announced its bowl partnerships for the 2010-13 seasons Thursday. Duke freshman Conner Vernon arrived on campus in May and was immediately teased by fellow wide receivers who questioned his speed, saying, "You're not that fast." Duke and North Carolina started playing each other in 1888, when Duke was known as Trinity College. They have put on some of the great shows in college football history, but the rivalry started slowly. Trinity won four of the first five, and one tale has it that Trinity simply had a superior knowledge of the rules and tactics of the relatively new game. A look at tonight's exhibition game between Belmont Abbey and UNC. It's not wishful thinking to think that High Point might celebrate good times sooner than anyone imagines. True, the Panthers have a rookie head coach in Scott Cherry. But during a 10-year stretch as an assistant, he played a key role in helping develop winning programs at George Mason, Tennessee Tech, Western Kentucky and South Carolina. In seven of those seasons, Cherry was with teams that made the NCAA Tournament or NIT, and highlights from his resume include George Mason's run to the Final Four in 2006 and Western Kentucky's trip to the Sweet 16 in 2008. Now its Cherry's turn to call the shots, and he said he's ready. The first coming of Larry Drew II hardly stirred any Roman Colosseum dust. He was a bit player on the largest stage, a point-guard understudy to the maddeningly unique Ty Lawson. If Lawson seemed larger than life -- right down to a sore big toe further inflated by his father's old-time remedy of warm salt water -- Drew seemed smaller than the fine print on North Carolina's NCAA trophy. A fifth NCAA Tournament championship banner hangs in North Carolina's Smith Center, the spoils of four years of determination, hard work and personal suffering. Six players instrumental in last season's title run are gone, four swept away in June's NBA Draft. Coach Roy Williams will craft another team, built on holdovers from last season and a freshman class rated among the nation's best. Williams has dealt with change before. |
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