Lucas: Manley Waiting And Working

Sterling Manley is familiar with patience.

The Tar Heel big man was an important piece of the post rotation as a freshman, averaging 10.0 minutes per game and ranking fourth on the team in offensive rebounds. He was a reliable free throw shooter (81.6 percent in Atlantic Coast Conference games), a physical presence (fourth on the team in free throw attempts) and had a pair of double-digit rebounding games.

You'd forgotten some of those numbers, hadn't you? Manley's promising freshman campaign has been obscured by frustrating sophomore and junior seasons that saw him participate in just 18 of Carolina's 69 games. He's battled lingering knee pain, thought he was making progress, then had…